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A law enforcement agency is testing a product that could help police officers with weapon confusion in possibly avoiding accidental shooting deaths.

What might that tell a juror in trying to come to a decision? >> well, the weapon confusion. i look at the pictures of the differences. the difference between a taser and a gun, and a glock like officer potter had, it's tremendous. the taser is yellow, it is thicker, lighter, so it was a big boost to have that presented to the jury. they wanted to see and make sure that, if they are leaning toward exonerating officer potter, or in this case might be leaning toward a hung jury. i think it's going to be a hung jury. but that's one of those critical reasons, weapon confusion. they really wanted t...

Attorney, the thing that i keep hearing them say is that they seem to want something to come from his loss, and that's where i think the defense attorney comes in to say, you know, her, kimberly potter sitting in jail is not going to stop the next officer from making a mistake. we heard during the trial that weapon confusion is a thing. it happens across this country more times than we'd like to admit. and i think they will be really advocating for her to be someone who was on the front lines talking to officers around the country about the tragedy that can happen with weapon confusion and loo...

Instances in the united states instances in the united states in the last two decades or so of weapon confusion, of law enforcement reaching for tasers as opposed to firearms. and out of those, about one third of the police officers have been indicted. three were found guilty. so we are not sure we are necessarily going to see a seachange, but we are really going to be diving into this deeper question, what is the implicit reason that someone like kim potter looked at daunte wright and reached for a weapon in the first place? that is what the prosecutor was most concerned about.— concerned a...