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While defense attorney Earl Gray walked her though what happened, he did not ask her whether she meant to draw her Taser. She said they also were required to find out who Wright’s female passenger was because a woman - a different one, as it turned out - had taken out a restraining order against him. She said after they found there was a warrant for Wright’s arrest, they were required to take him into custody. She said Luckey wanted to stop the vehicle, and although she “most likely” wouldn’t have done so if she’d been on patrol by herself, it is important for trainees to have many encounters with the public.
Potter, who was training Officer Anthony Luckey, said Luckey noticed Wright’s car in a turn lane with the signal turned on inappropriately, then saw an air freshener hanging from the rearview mirror as well as expired tags. He said at the time he couldn’t see what Potter was doing, but began backing out when he heard Potter shout, “Taser!” Johnson testified last week that he was leaning into the car to make sure the gear shifter was in park and to shut off the vehicle, and that he had grabbed Wright’s right arm with both hands to try to handcuff him. Mychal Johnson, was at risk of being dragged by Wright’s car. Potter’s attorneys argued that she made a mistake but also would have been justified in using deadly force if she had meant to because one of the other officers, then-Sgt. Her body camera video recorded Wright saying, “Ah, he shot me” an instant after the shooting. “I remember yelling, ‘Taser, Taser, Taser,’ and nothing happened, and then he told me I shot him,” Potter said through tears. Wright pulled away from the officers and got back in his car, police body camera footage of the traffic stop shows.
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Potter, who was training another officer at the time, said she probably wouldn’t have pulled Wright’s car over if she had been on her own that day because many drivers were late on renewing their tags at that point of the pandemic.Īfter she and the other two officers at the scene that day decided to arrest Wright on an outstanding warrant for a weapons violation, the encounter “just went chaotic,” Potter told the jury.
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Potter is charged with first-degree and second-degree manslaughter in the killing of Wright, a 20-year-old Black motorist who was pulled over for having expired license plate tags and an air freshener hanging from his rearview mirror. She testified that she was “sorry it happened” and that she doesn’t remember what she said or everything that happened after the shooting, saying much of her memory of those moments “is missing.” Kim Potter, 49, has said she meant to draw her Taser instead of her handgun during the April 11 traffic stop in Brooklyn Center when she killed Wright. GRAPHIC WARNING: Videos in this story may include content that some may find disturbing.
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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, saying during sometimes tearful testimony that she shouted a warning about using her Taser on Wright after she saw fear in a fellow officer’s face.
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