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Kim Potter, ex-Minnesota police officer
who fatally shot Daunte Wright, expected
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Posted By: NorthernDog, 12/17/2021 8:46:33 AM

MINNEAPOLIS — The former Minnesota police officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright while yelling "Taser" in a traffic-stop-turned-arrest is expected to take the witness stand Friday in her manslaughter trial. Hennepin County District Court Judge Regina Chu told jurors Thursday they were "almost done" and that the defense had two witnesses left. During jury selection, Kim Potter informed the court she intended to testify, and one of her defense attorneys told jurors they would hear from her during trial. Potter, 49, is charged with first- and second-degree manslaughter in the April shooting in a Minneapolis suburb. The 26-year veteran of the

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I assume her testimony will be pivotal. If Daunte had not resisted arrest none of this would have happened.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: john56 12/17/2021 9:50:43 AM (No. 1010000)
I hope she's ready to pull a Rittenhouse on the stand. It's not an easy job to pull off and the jails are full of people who were certain that telling their story would prove their innocence.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: MDConservative 12/17/2021 10:15:09 AM (No. 1010026)
OP - If the cops hadn't stopped Daunte for "expired plates" or an air freshener hanging from his mirror, none of this would have happened either. Pulling a weapon, whether a taser or firearm, is serious business. To pull the wrong one and kill...over expired plates, air fresheners, a misdemeanor warrant, and a scuffle... The bad guys don't get an "accidental discharge" pass that I can recall. This one was unarmed.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: MickTurn 12/17/2021 10:31:36 AM (No. 1010045)
I don't understand how she could confuse the Gun on her hip with a Taser...aren't they quite different? Sounds like another leftie rewriting history.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: DVC 12/17/2021 11:34:20 AM (No. 1010122)
#3, early Tasers had a very different grip shape than the later models, less like a gun, and IMO, would easily be distinguished by feel. The later model Tasers have a grip and trigger area that are shaped very much like the Glock handgun that the officer was also carrying. By pure feel....in a hurry, I can easily see that telling one from the other would be difficult. The biggest difference is weight, but even then, in a high stress, adrenaline-soaked fighting moment, one's strength is magnified and frankly the weight difference between half a pound and 1 1/3 lbs is probably less dramatic than it sounds. The operation is pretty much identical, grasp the grip area, insert index finger into the trigger guard and pull back on the trigger, and either a bullet or a dart is fired the way your index finger would be pointed if extended fully. IMO, it SEEMS like the difference in the weight might be enough to tell, but under the stress of a fight, that could be lost for a second or three. Also, the gun is black, the Taser a bright yellow color. I don't remember if this happened at night, which would have made the color far less visible. From her instantaneous reaction of genuine shock and horror, I think it is clear that she intended to use the Taser, not the gun. But, in a left wing, anti-police city, full of left wing 'hate-the-cops' propaganda for years....I wonder if there is any chance that anyone recognizes this as a tragic error and that she was not intentionally shooting him.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: JrSample 12/17/2021 1:50:57 PM (No. 1010236)
When your civil rights martyr has multiple outstanding arrest warrants which include; aggravated armed robbery, illegal possession of a firearm, evading arrest, along with restraining orders due to violence against women, then your so-called movement has completely jumped-the-shark and has become a full-blown fraudulent racket.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: rubberneck 12/17/2021 2:11:53 PM (No. 1010252)
This could go either way. IMO, since she was a sworn officer with the authority to use deadly force, she should also be accountable for deploying that deadly force. Probably guilty of some level of manslaughter, at least. (Obviously the victim could've mitigated the danger by cooperating with the law-enforcement people. That is what good citizens would've done.) No mention of the Race Hustlers (Sharpton, Jackson, etc.) in the article... but that looks like the Revvum Sharpton behind the mask (trying to make sure he's in the photo), at the victim's funeral.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: rytwng 12/17/2021 3:01:39 PM (No. 1010267)
If he had cooperated he would be alive. He didn't.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: ussjimmycarter 12/17/2021 3:53:16 PM (No. 1010306)
Feel terrible for this officer! Yea, tasers are way different than a Glock, but under extreme stress things change! We are in no position to judge a cop for a clear mistake! I don’t think she will be acquitted which is a shame! Cops aren’t perfect…nobody is!!!
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