Outcome reached in Kim Potter trial over Daunte Wright's death

As Kim Potter broke down on the stand, prosecutor Erin Eldridge asked, "You knew that deadly force was unreasonable and unwarranted" in the killing of Daunte Wright.

"I'm sorry," Potter said through sobs. "I didn't want to hurt anybody."

Eldridge then pressed, "You testified … that after you saw a scared look on Sgt. [Mychal] Johnson's face, that's why you decided to use the Taser?"

"Yes," Potter replied.

"But you also told Dr. [Laurence] Miller that you don't know why you decided to use the Taser?" Eldridge said.

She asked Potter why she remembered some aspects of the shooting in earlier conversations but not on the witness stand.

"You said that there are a lot of things that you don't remember, that you directly testified that your memory came back when you saw your husband that day," Eldridge asked. "But didn't you tell Dr. Miller that you remember seeing the gun in your right hand?"

Potter replied: "I don't remember my interview with him. I was distraught. I wasn't in a good place."

Body camera footage shows Potter sobbing and crying following the shooting, saying she's going to go to jail. Eldridge asked Potter about this.

"You didn't behave like someone who had just saved certain Johnson's life, did you?" she asked. "You never asked Sergeant Johnson if he was OK, right?"

Daunte Wright, who was fatally shot by Kim Potter during a traffic stop, had a gross misdemeanor warrant and an order of protection against him.

Potter maintained that it is not uncommon to find someone who has a warrant during a traffic stop and that a gross misdemeanor is a lesser offense than a felony. Potter also recalled the temporary order of protection against Wright.

When prosecutor Erin Eldridge asked if "just having a female passenger in your car is not in and by itself a violation of an OFP [order of protection]," Potter said it has to be investigated. 

Eldridge then asked, "You did not see a need to rush up to the passenger side of the vehicle and pull this woman to safety, right?"

"Not at the moment," Potter replied.

Kim Potters was asked about the department's Taser policy, which she said states "that all training should include performing reaction hand draws or cross draws to reduce the possibility of accidentally drawing and firing a firearm."

She also maintained that she received extensive use of force training.

"Part of the reason for that is weapons confusion, right?" the prosecution asked.

"Yes," Potter replied. 

"And that was known in the field and has been known for a number of years," the prosecution continued.

"We talked about it," Potter said.

Potter wore her Taser on her left side and her firearm on her right side, according to her testimony. She said it's been like this since 2016. 

She said she has never deployed her Taser but has pulled it out for de-escalation purposes.

Kim Potter was emotional on the witness stand as she described the fatal traffic stop. She shot and killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright, who was being arrested by officers and attempted to flee. 

"I remember a struggle with Officer [Anthony] Luckey and the driver at the door," Potter testified. "The driver was trying to get back into the car … I went around Officer Luckey as they're trying to get back in the door."

She added, "They're still struggling and I can see Officer Johnson and the drivers struggling over the gearshifts because I can see Johnson's hand and then I can see his face."

She then described Sgt. Mychal Johnson, who was holding Wright from the passenger side of the car. 

"He had a look of fear on his face -- nothing I'd seen before," she said. "We're trying to keep him from driving away. It just went chaotic. And then I remember yelling, 'Taser, Taser, Taser,' and nothing happened and then [Wright] told me I shot him."