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Counts, both manslaughter in the first degree and manslaughter in the second degree against former brooklyn center, minnesota, police officer, kim potter. and let's take a moment here to show you the victim in all of this and that is daunte wright, 20 years old, was killed after he was pulled over by a police officer. there he is with his then 2-year-old son, daunte wright jr. his life was taken that day by then officer potter, and she has been found guilty on both counts. let me bring in our entire legal team here, who's been following this throughout, along with our correspondent, adrienne b...

They're saying is that through the reckless use of her firearm, which is itself a misdemeanor, then created a risk of death in causing -- in killing daunte wright. it's just a higher burden, and just a tougher charge to get a conviction on. no outcome here, to be perfectly blunt, no outcome here would shock me because this, at the end of the day, deals with how prosecutors and jurors think about accidents, and it was an accident. the prosecutors did not charge an intentional homicide here. and this is really going to come down to how much grace the jurors are going to give her for that conduct...

Remember, was convicted in this same courtroom after a jury deliberated for more than ten hours, but this same courtroom where the trial of kimberly potter has played out. back then, in april, people were on edge. they wanted to know what was going to happen in the case of derek chauvin. and when this incident with daunte wright happened, the prosecution was preparing to end -- was preparing to rest its case on the following day after kimberly potter shot and killed daunte wright. we heard from the brother of george floyd that monday, and we also heard from the prosecution's use of force exper...

Both sides saying it was a mistake, but the prosecution said it was a criminal mistake, that an officer of her seniority should have known the difference between her firearm and her taser. what was a bold move by the defense was they seemed willing to put dante wright on trial. they said had wright complied, none of this would have happened. you see on the video he wasn't listening. what we saw here on unanimous verdict of first and second-degree manslaughter, where the court calls up ordinary citizens, has them listen to evidence and sit in judgment of a fellow citizen, the jury determining t...

The former brooklyn police officer who dedicated 26 years of her life protecting and serving was led away in handcuffs here at the hennepin county courthouse by hennepin county sheriffs after this jury of 12 found her guilty on both counts. and this all started back in april over a traffic stop. you showed the picture, you talked about dante wright. that day he was excited, his family tells me, because he just received a new car. it wasn't brand new, but it was passed down from someone else in his family. he was going to get the car washed, and in his vehicle, he had one of these, a car freshe...