Kim Potter, a former officer in Minnesota charged with manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright, a Black man, during a traffic stop captured on police video, takes the witness stand in her own defense.
Bodycam video captured Potter shouting, “I’ll tase you!” and “Taser, Taser, Taser!” before she fired once.The defense has calleda horrific mistake, but have also asserted that Potter would have been within her rights to use deadly force because Wright might have dragged another officer, then-Sgt. Mychal Johnson, with his car.
In the aftermath of the shooting, Gannon said, political pressures mounted and he was forced “to resign in lieu of termination” because he refused to immediately fire Potter. He also said officers had to assume that Wright “very likely could have a gun” because he had one in the past, and that it would have been a “dereliction of duty” for them not to have tried to arrest him.
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