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BREAKING: ‘Trial Outcome’ Reached In Kim Potter Case

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MINNEAPOLIS, MN - APRIL 14: (EDITORS NOTE: Best quality available) In this handout provided by the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office, former Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kim Potter poses for a mugshot at the Hennepin County Jail on April 14, 2021 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Potter, a 26-year police veteran, was charged with with second-degree manslaughter in the death 20-year-old Daunte Wright who she shot and killed following a traffic stop.
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Former police officer Kim Potter has been found guilty of first and second-degree manslaughter in the death of Daunte Wright.

The jury’s decision comes after roughly 27 hours of deliberation. Deliberation began on Monday after closing arguments from the prosecution and Potter’s defense team.

As jury deliberation stretched into multiple days, speculation spread that the jury may be deadlocked on a decision after Potter’s emotional testimony last week. During her testimony, Potter broke down multiple times, at one point breaking down into apologies for what happened.

Potter’s defense team has never contested that she mistakenly pulled her gun when she meant to pull her taser, and that that mistake led to the death of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old black man, as he tried to flee police officers on April 11. Instead, the defense has painted a sympathetic picture of a person stuck in a chaotic and dangerous situation where split-second decisions had to be made.

The prosecution argued that Potter’s lethal mistake is inexcusable.

“This was no oopsie, this not putting the wrong date on a check, this was not entering the wrong password, this was a colossal screw-up, a blunder of epic proportions, it was precisely the thing she was warned about for years, it was irreversible and it was fatal,” prosecutor Erin Eldridge said in closing arguments on Monday.

Potter is facing charges of first and second-degree manslaughter over Wright’s death. Potter broke down in tears multiple times on Friday, once apologizing for what happened after facing a grilling from Eldridge. The exchange went as follows:

Erin Eldridge: You’d agree that, as a police officer, you have the duty to render aid and communicate information to other officers, right?

Kim Potter: Yes.

EE: And it’s part of your job to assist those who are hurt or injured. True?

KP: Yes.

EE: And to communicate to other officers what you know about a particular scene, right?

KP: Yes.

EE: Give them whatever information you can to help them do their jobs to help render assistance, things like that. Right?

KP: Yes.

EE: But you didn’t do any of those things on April 11, did you?

KP: No.

EE: You stopped doing your job completely. You didn’t communicate what happened over the radio, right?

KP: No.

EE: You didn’t make sure any officers knew what you had just done, right?

KP: No.

EE: You didn’t run down the street and try to save Daunte Wright’s life, did you?

KP: No.

EE: You didn’t check on the other car that had been hit, did you?

KP: No.

EE: That all happened just down the road from you.

KP: Yes.

EE: You were focused on what you had done because you had just killed somebody.

KP: I’m sorry it happened. I’m so sorry.

EE: Mrs. Potter, from your reaction today and your reaction on your video, you didn’t plan to use deadly force that day, did you?

KP: No.

This article has been updated to include new information. 

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