A prosecutor on Monday urged jurors to hold a former Minnesota police officer criminally responsible for a 'colossal screw-up, a blunder of epic proportions' that ended in the fatal shooting of a Black motorist.
would mean Potter improperly used “such force and violence that death of or great bodily harm to any person was reasonably foreseeable.”charge alleges that Potter’s “culpable negligence” created “unreasonable risk, and consciously takes chances of causing death or great bodily harm to another.”Defense attorney Earl Gray insisted that his client can't be criminally punished for a tragic accident, one he compared to a deadly mishap at the hands of a doctor, pilot or lawyer.
"She took specific actions that put Daunte Wright and everyone else around him at risk," the prosecutor said. "An ordinary and prudent person would not have drawn a weapon, held it for more than five ... six seconds, aimed it and pulled the trigger, all without recognizing or confirming what was in their hand."
“Playing the video, not at the right speed where it showed chaos, playing it as slow as possible, that’s the rabbit hole of misdirection,” Gray told jurors. The defense insisted that Wright, and not Potter, is really the one responsible for the fatal interaction.Once Wright tried to flee, the police had no choice but to stop him, the defense said.
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