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Her taser and then shot and killed daunte wright during a traffic stop. he had a deodorant on his rear-view mirror. prosecutors say she was negligent. defense argued, quote, mistakes happen. >> this was no little oopsie. this was not putting the wrong date on a check. this was not entering the wrong password somewhere. >> even though she didn't know she was using it, she had a right to, and that's what the law is. everybody makes mistakes. nobody's perfect, ladies and gentlemen. and this lady here made a mistake, and my gosh, a mistake is not a crime. >> we're joined now by criminal defense at...

All right. in just a few hours, day two in the trial of kimberly potter, the defense claims this ex-police officer mistook her gun for a taser when she killed daunte wright during a traffic stop. there was emotional testimony wednesday from the prosecution's first witness, the victim's mother. >> i heard the officer tell daunte, no. and i heard daunte say, no, i'm not. sounded like he said, don't run. daunte said, no, i'm not. a female answered the phone because it was facetime'd. she was screaming and i was saying, what's wrong? and she said that they shot him. >> the attorney for daunte wrig...

Baffling and horrifying was in fact referring merely to the fact that he was looking at ammunition and she had no idea whatsoever in her mind that this could have happened. i mean, i think that's going to be the way the defense will portray it. they'll say no parent could imagine their kid. >> except the other words, you have to learn how not to get caught. >> she's going to say, her lawyer will say that's about searching for ammunition, not about shooting. she would have no idea he was thinking of being a mass murderer. that would be the argument. not saying it will be successful, but that wi...

Would be to trust the legal process. she also talked about her strategy in countering the defense argument that the killing was in self-defense. i wanted to make sure that the jury understood that the self-defense case was absolute garbage, that was not what took place. and i was doing my best in the moment to dismantle it. >> there was also a lot of talk about the racial makeup of the jury. 11 white people and one black person. but prosecutors say they were confident the panel would base their decisions on the evidence. >> after we picked the jury, we looked at them and realized that we had...

Then you do see an altercation between the two of them. legally the significance -- first of all, the significance in your experience of the jury asking for that particular moment, but legally how the question enters into the conversation here of false imprisonment versus the defense argument of self-defense. >> well, jim, this is obviously the most critical piece of evidence in the trial. we knew that going into it. in fact, i don't think we would have the trial but for this piece of video evidence, the one that the jury was focused on. it's not surprising they want to see it. again, we think...