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A blunder of epic proportions. >> reporter: friday is christmas eve and erin aldridge starting the prosecution's closing argument with a reminder. >> the defendant told you her sons will be home for the holidays. daunte wright's parents -- katie and aubrey wright -- will have an empty seat at their table this-holiday season because the defendant shot and killed him. >> reporter: aldridge argued 20-year-old daunte wright died at the hands of a highly-trained 26-year police veteran. she said former-officer kim potter was supposed to practice pulling out her taser every day she was on the job. an...

I'm upset. >> the emotions are real. >> you just heard the father of daunte wright aubrey wright and his mother katie speaking tearfully, painfully about the loss of their son and a sentence of two years handed down to kim potter, the police officer who killed him in a traffic stop. we have cnn's adrienne broaddus back with us. we were just discussing how painful this has all been for the family. and you heard daunte wright's father there saying we thought we would get a little justice, and we didn't. they are clearly still hurting. what is next for this community? >> that is the big question....

Come forward. state your full name and spell it, please. >> my name is aubrey wright. you said spell it? >> yes. >> i'm sorry. w-r-i-g-h-t. i am kind of nervous but i'm da daunte's father. i want to start by telling you what daunte meant to me. daunte meant the world to me. unconditional love we had for each other. da daunte was every man's dream. first child with my wife and a boy, so proud to be his father. he was and as many, he was my son, he was my prince.

She never intended to hurt anyone. her conduct cries out for a sentence significantly below the guidelines. >> with me are daunte's mother and faergtther, katy and aubrey wright. along with their attorney jeff storms. ka katie, can you tell us how you're feeling about what you heard from the judge there? >> we're angry, disappointed. we left sentencing feeling like our son, his life didn't matter. i feel like the judge was very sympathetic and we worked out of the courtroom feeling like we were the ones on trial, we were the ones that committed manslaughter. >> aubrey, i know this doesn't feel...

If it was my son, a black man, 20 years old, on trial for manslaughter, he would have had an upward departure regardless of what his criminal record was pry. he could have had nothing, not even a speeding ticket on his record and he would have been thrown under the jail. it's definitely about race. it's been about race since the moment my son was pulled over. he was racially profiled. you're pulling him over because he was a young black man. it's always been about race. >> how, aubrey, how do you view the conviction. she was convicted. how do you view the conviction now that the sentencing is ...