Potter talks about her experience as a field training officer
Kim Potter was asked about her background with the Brooklyn Center Police Department. She was hired in 1995, making her a 26-year veteran of the department.
She was a field training officer for at least 10 years, she testified.
She said she was a field training officer because she "felt that I had knowledge and mentorship that I could help young officers develop into somebody I would want to work and my partners would want to work with."
She was serving as a field training officer when she fatally shot Wright.
She was also on the domestic abuse response team, serving as a crisis negotiator within the domestic abuse program.
"Officers would go out on domestic abuse situations or domestic calls and if there was a victim of a crime or an arrest made -- or not an arrest made -- we would follow up the next day with the victims to see that they were getting the things they needed like domestic advocates, walking them through getting order for protections that they had questions, and then helping them, and checking in with them through the court process," she testified.
As a crisis negotiator, Potter said she would respond to calls where people may be in danger to negotiate with the subject and get them to submit to being arrested.
She had also worked in crime prevention work and said she received a Taser and firearm training.