No Verdict yet in Kim Potter Trial for Daunte Wright’s Death

No Verdict yet in Kim Potter Trial for Daunte Wright’s Death
Former Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kim Potter takes questions from the prosecution as she testifies in court, at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn., on Dec. 17, 2021. Court TV via AP
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MINNEAPOLIS—The suburban Minneapolis police officer who says she meant to use her Taser instead of her gun when she shot and killed motorist Daunte Wright made a “blunder of epic proportions” and did not have “a license to kill,” a prosecutor told jurors on Monday shortly before they began deliberating in her manslaughter trial.

Kim Potter’s attorney Earl Gray countered during closing arguments that the former Brooklyn Center officer made an honest mistake by pulling her handgun instead of her Taser and that shooting Wright wasn’t a crime.