- Ex-Minnesota police officer Kim Potter took the witness stand on Friday in her trial over the killing of Daunte Wright.
- Potter faces first- and second-degree manslaughter charges in the April 11, 2021 shooting.
- She fatally shot Wright during a traffic stop. Potter has said she intended to grab her Taser.
Former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter broke down in tears on the witness stand on Friday as she testified in her trial over the shooting death of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old unarmed Black man.
"It just went chaotic," an emotional Potter told the 12-person Hennepin County District Court jury as she recounted the April 11, 2021 killing of Wright.
"I remember yelling, 'Taser, Taser, Taser,' and nothing happened and then [another cop] told me I shot him," she said before bursting into tears and holding her head in her hands.
Potter, 49, testified in her own defense at her trial, where she faces first- and second-degree manslaughter charges in Wright's shooting death.
The 26-year veteran cop — who is white and has since resigned from the Brooklyn Center Police Department — fatally shot Wright during a traffic stop in the Minneapolis suburb.
Potter, who has pleaded not guilty to both charges, has said that she intended to grab her Taser, which was holstered on the opposite side of her body, when she shot Wright in the chest.
Body-camera footage previously played in court for jurors shows Potter shout, "Taser! Taser! Taser!" before she shoots Wright as he tried to sit down in the driver's seat of his vehicle.
Shortly afterward, the footage shows Potter say, "Shit! I shot him!" before collapsing to the ground, screaming and saying, "I'm going to prison."
While under questioning by defense attorney Earl Gray on Friday, Potter said she did not remember saying she was going to prison.
Potter testified that she remembered former sergeant Mychal Johnson — who had responded to the scene that April day — with "a look of fear on his face" amid a struggle with Wright moments before the shooting.
"It's nothing I've seen before," she said of Johnson's reaction.
Potter faces a prison sentence of up to 25 years if she's convicted on both charges.
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