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Closing arguments begin in trial of Kim Potter
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Closing arguments began Monday morning in the trial of Kim Potter, a former Minnesota police officer who says she mistook her firearm for her Taser and accidentally killed Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man.
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Kim Potter to testify her innocence in Daunte Wright shooting trial
Headline from Newsweek ·
Kim Potter on Daunte Wright stop: 'I'm sorry it happened'
By Ray Sanchez and Carma Hassan, CNN Kim Potter, the former officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright during a traffic stop in suburban Minneapolis, is expected to testify in her own defense after the prosecution rested its case on Thursday.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former suburban Minneapolis police officer Kim Potter took the stand Friday at her manslaughter trial in the shooting death of Black motorist Daunte Wright.
Former Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police officer Kim Potter is on trial in the fatal April shooting of Daunte Wright. Follow here for live updates from the courtroom.
Kim Potter, the veteran former Brooklyn Center police officer, is expected to take the stand before the defense rests its case in her Minneapolis manslaughter trial. Potter, 49, shot and killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright in April 2021.
Kim Potter, a white former police officer is expected to testify Friday that she mistakenly used her gun and killed Daunte Wright, a Black man, when she really meant to use her Taser.
Former police officer Kim Potter, who's said she mistook her firearm for her Taser when she fatally shot Daunte Wright during a traffic stop this year near Minneapolis, could take the stand Friday in her trial over the 20-year-old Black man's killing.
The Minnesota police officer on trial in the shooting death of Daunte Wright was expected to take the stand Friday, hoping to persuade jurors to acquit her of manslaughter charges in what she has said was a gun-Taser mixup.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota police officer who shot and killed Daunte Wright told jurors at her manslaughter trial on Friday that she “didn’t want to hurt anybody” that day,
Kimberly Potter, who was a police officer in the city of Brooklyn Center just north of Minneapolis, has pleaded not guilty to first- and second-degree manslaughter charges. Her lawyers have said Potter, 49, mistakenly used her handgun instead of her stun gun in the death of Wright, a 20-year-old sho…
(CNN) — Former police officer Kim Potter, who has said she mistook her firearm for her Taser when she fatally shot Daunte Wright during a traffic stop near Minneapolis, broke down on the stand Friday — apologizing and insisting she “didn’t want to hurt anybody.” “I was very distraught.
Closing arguments began Monday morning in the trial of Kim Potter, a former Minnesota police officer who says she mistook her firearm for her Taser and accidentally killed Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man.
Former Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police officer Kim Potter is on trial in the fatal April shooting of Daunte Wright. Follow here for live updates from the courtroom.
Closing arguments will begin Monday morning in the trial of Kim Potter, the former Brooklyn Center police officer accused of shooting and killing Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, during a traffic stop earlier this year.
By Ralph Ellis, Ray Sanchez and Mallika Kallingal, CNN Closing arguments are scheduled to begin Monday morning in the trial of Kim Potter, a former Minnesota police officer who says she mistook her firearm for her Taser and accidentally killed Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man.
Kimberly Potter, 49, has pleaded not guilty to first- and second-degree manslaughter charges, which carry maximum sentences of 15 and 10 years respectively, saying she thought she was drawing her Taser when she shot Wright in the chest with her 9 mm handgun on April 11.
A prosecutor has told jurors that the suburban Minneapolis police officer who says she meant to use her Taser instead of her gun when she shot and killed Black motorist Daunte Wright made a “blunder of epic proportions.”
The jury tasked with determining the fate of former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter will be sequestered once deliberations begin on Monday after both sides deliver their closing arguments.
By Ralph Ellis, Ray Sanchez and Mallika Kallingal, CNN Closing arguments began Monday morning in the trial of Kim Potter, a former Minnesota police officer who says she mistook her firearm for her Taser and accidentally killed Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man.
By Ralph Ellis, Ray Sanchez and Mallika Kallingal, CNN A jury began deliberating Monday afternoon in the trial of Kim Potter, a former Minnesota police officer who says she mistook her firearm for her Taser and accidentally killed Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man.
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