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Post by Admin on Dec 15, 2021 18:55:05 GMT
Kim Potter trial livestream - Day 6 6,234 watching now • Started streaming 4 hours ago • Kim Potter Trial Day 6 - Prosecutors to call final witness Wednesday Kim Potter’s use of deadly force against Daunte Wright was not appropriate, a use-of-force expert testified Wednesday at the former suburban Minneapolis police officer’s manslaughter trial, undercutting a defense argument that she would have been justified in shooting Wright even if she didn’t mean to. GRAPHIC WARNING: Videos in this story may contain disturbing content. “The use of deadly force was not appropriate and the evidence suggests a reasonable officer in Officer Potter’s position could not have believed it was proportional to the threat at the time,” said Seth Wayne Stoughton, a professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law. Potter, who resigned from the Brooklyn Center police force two days after she shot and killed Wright, has said she meant to pull her Taser instead of her gun after Wright tried to drive away as officers attempted to arrest him on an outstanding weapons possession charge. The defense has called the shooting a horrific mistake, but has also asserted that Potter would have been within her rights to use deadly force on Wright because he might have dragged another officer with his car. Prosecutors, who are nearing the end of their case, have tried to portray Potter as an officer whose intended use of a Taser would have violated department policy despite her extensive training.
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Post by Admin on Dec 16, 2021 2:23:44 GMT
Kim Potter’s use of deadly force against Daunte Wright was not appropriate, a use-of-force expert testified Wednesday at the former suburban Minneapolis police officer’s manslaughter trial, undercutting a defense argument that she would have been justified in shooting Wright even if she didn’t mean to.
“The use of deadly force was not appropriate and the evidence suggests a reasonable officer in Officer Potter’s position could not have believed it was proportional to the threat at the time,” said Seth Stoughton, a professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law.
Potter, who resigned from the Brooklyn Center police force two days after she shot and killed Wright, has said she meant to pull her Taser instead of her gun after Wright attempted to drive away as officers tried to arrest him on an outstanding weapons possession charge.
The defense has called the shooting a horrific mistake, but has also asserted that Potter would have been within her rights to use deadly force on Wright because he might have dragged another officer with his car.
Prosecutors, who are nearing the end of their case, have tried to portray Potter as an officer whose intended use of a Taser would have violated her department’s policy despite her extensive training.
Wright’s father, Arbuey Wright, was called by prosecutors to provide “spark of life” testimony, which Minnesota courts allow to humanize a victim.
He described his son as a typical big brother who joked a lot with his two younger sisters, and he said the family got together every Sunday. Arbuey Wright was moved to tears when prosecutors showed jurors photos of him and his son with their arms around each other and one of Daunte Wright with his own son.
“He was so happy about junior,” Wright said. “He loved his son.”
Potter, 49, is charged with first- and second-degree manslaughter in the killing of Wright, who was pulled over on April 11 for having expired license plate tags and an air freshener dangling from his rearview mirror. Video captured the moments when Wright pulled away from officers who were trying to arrest him on the outstanding warrant, with Potter shouting “I’ll tase you!” and then shooting Wright with her handgun.
Potter is white and Wright was Black, and his death set off several nights of angry protests in Brooklyn Center. It happened while a white former officer, Derek Chauvin, was on trial in nearby Minneapolis for the killing of George Floyd.
Stoughton also testified at Chauvin’s trial, saying he judged Chauvin’s actions against what a reasonable officer in the same situation would have done and repeatedly found that Chauvin acted excessively when he held Floyd facedown with a knee across his neck for more than nine minutes.
On Wednesday, Stoughton reminded jurors that Potter warned that she was about to use her Taser on Wright, and said a reasonable officer would not have decided to use a Taser if they thought there was an imminent threat of death or great bodily harm.
What’s more, Stoughton said, “a reasonable officer in that situation would not have believed” those threats existed.
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Post by Admin on Dec 16, 2021 18:53:36 GMT
Kim Potter trial livestream - Day 7 7,806 watching now • Started streaming 4 hours ago • Kim Potter Trial Day 7 - State to rest. Kim Potter to testify for defense.
Kim Potter, a former Brooklyn Center police officer, is charged with manslaughter for shooting and killing 20-year-old Daunte Wright, a Black man, during a traffic stop earlier this year.
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Post by Admin on Dec 17, 2021 18:37:45 GMT
LIVE: Kim Potter Testifies In Trial On Daunte Wright's Death | NBC News 3,204 watching now • Started streaming 98 minutes ago • Watch live coverage as former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter takes the stand in the trial over Daunte Wright's death. Potter is charged with first- and second-degree manslaughter in the April 11 shooting of Wright.
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Post by Admin on Dec 17, 2021 21:38:36 GMT
Daunte Wright's criminal past comes to light in Kim Potter trial | LiveNOW from FOX
17,382 views • Premiered 7 hours ago • The previously undisclosed 2017 felony petition, obtained by Fox News Digital, alleges that Daunte Wright broke into a home before the homeowner, who was in the basement, emerged upstairs and chased him out.
Wright also had armed robbery charges pending at the time of his death. And a pair of lawsuits filed after his death accuse him of shooting a teen in the head and taking part in a carjacking in which an accomplice allegedly shot a young man through the leg.
In the robbery case, Wright allegedly closed one hand around a 20-year-old woman’s throat, choking her, while shoving a gun barrel in her face and demanding cash she had hidden in her bra.
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