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reporter: hi there, nicole. tell me what the sort of latest assessment of how this happened, i mean, sometimes in these early stages, there s a fog of what the actual interaction was about. this one seems somewhat straightforward. tell me what your reporting has revealed. reporter: well, since we got that video on wednesday, we haven t gotten any updates from police or from investigators. you mentioned that this is an investigation that s being led by the state police, and we just haven t heard an update. we don t know a timeline on how long that investigation will take. as far as we know, once that investigation is wrapped up, then it will be reviewed by the county prosecutor and also the individual local departments, but nicole, i actually had a conversation earlier today with seth, the use of force expert who you might remember from the chauvin trial and from the kim potter trial in those successful prosecutions of those officers in minneapolis, and one thing ....
Imes, the same use of force expert who testified in the kim potter trial. by the way, potter will be sentenced in minnesota tomorrow. but back to the story at hand today. j. alexander was one of the first officers who arrived on scene that day. telling members of the jury he became a member of the minneapolis police department because he wanted to serve the community where he grew up. also mentioning he didn t have a fond impression of mpd officers specifically because of his interactions with them while he was growing up. he also told the jury, he didn t begin to realize the situation was critical or that floyd had died until later in the day. that s when a homicide officer arrived on the scene. he described the paramedics who responded as casual and pretty much saying there was no sense of urgency. king said george floyd was ....
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Correct, it s not a defense. we have to remember that the crime of manslaughter itself is about a mistake. it s the accidental killing of another human being, so there is no mistake defense to a mistaken crime. accidents can be crime, and in addition to the racist trope that was brought up, you know, the facts aren t there. the idea that, you know, there was a use of force expert who said not only deadly force was unjustified but even the use of a taser was unreasonable because there was a passenger and other overs around. this was not an s. i love that line. this is not an oopsy. mistake is not a defense of the facts obviously and the law are on the side of the prosecution, ana, but really depends on whether this jury cannot apply their heart to the fact and apply the law to the facts and also one more thinking? my only critique of the prosecution in closing was that i think they should have reminded the jury of that, that she be emotional and can be remorseful. ....
miss potter, do you still want to testify, or have you changed your mind? yes, your honor, i ll testify. erin, the testimony of this former officer could come as early as tomorrow morning. it is a bold move for a defendant to take the stand, but it signals that her attorneys are likely confident enough that she will be seen by the jury as believable. of course taking the stand also opens her up to certain risks. she will be cross-examined by a team of prosecutors who have no doubt spent months planning questions that they would ask her if only given the chance. all right, josh, thank you very much. josh has been covering this trial and now stephanie rawlings, former defense attorney and former mayor of baltimore who has been with us throughout this. so the defense today, mayor, kicks off the case with a use of force expert who testifies that it was reasonable for potter to pull what she thought was her taser on daunte wright. that is the exact opposite of what we heard from the ....