GUILTY MN - Daunte Wright, 20, fatally shot by police during traffic stop, Brooklyn Center, Apr 2021 #2

[Tippy Lynn]

One dead after police shoot driver attempting to leave traffic stop | kare11.com

Thread #1

 

[Cool Cats]

Kim Potter's attorney says the former Minnesota police officer will testify at her manslaughter trial


Kim Potter sits at the defense table, center, as Hennepin County Judge Regina Chu presides over jury selection Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021, in the trial of Potter.

Jury selection began on Tuesday in Potter's trial with the prosecution and defense attorneys asking potential jurors various questions about their opinions about police and the Black Lives Matter movement.

One potential juror said their initial reaction when they heard about Wright's killing was, "How can this happen?"

Potter's attorney, Paul Engh, told the potential juror that he would "clarify some of those things" and that Potter will testify during the trial.

"Officer Potter will testify and she will tell you what she remembers happened," Engh told the potential juror. "So, you will know not just from the video, but from the officers at the scene, and officer Potter herself, what was occurring. I think that you'd be quite interested in hearing what she has to say."

The potential juror, a retired special education teacher who also taught English to immigrants, was approved by both the prosecution and the defense and was seated on the jury.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Kim Potter trial: 9 jurors seated after 2nd day of jury selection

 

[sds71]

@webster

https://mobile.twitter.com/webster/status/1466439367161954304
A prospective juror in the trial of former officer Kimberly Potter was excused after describing that victim Daunte Wright looked a lot like his students, and he didn't know if he could set that aside. “I'm just trying to be honest and protect the integrity of the trial,” he said.

 

[Shaddow]

Jurors 2, 6, 7, 11, 17, 19, 21, 22, 26, 40, 48, 55, 57, and 58 (7 males and 7 females) have been chosen.
The Trial will start Wednesday.

 

[Cool Cats]

12 jurors have been selected in ex-police officer Kim Potter's trial, including a woman who said Duante Wright 'shouldn't have been killed over an expired tag'

In this screen grab from video, former Brooklyn Center police Officer Kim Potter sits at the defense table, center, as Hennepin County Judge Regina Chu presides over jury selection in in Minneapolis on Nov. 30, 2021.

Jurors worried about their identities becoming public

Several potential jurors expressed to the judge that they were concerned their identities would become public during or after the trial. The court had to stop live-streaming the trial at one point to question a juror who had been seated because he was upset that his identity had already become public.

On the first day of jury selection, Potter's attorney, Earl Gray, referred to a potential juror by his last name and asked him the name of the rock band that he plays in during a line of questioning, making him easily identifiable.

According to KARE 11 reporter Lou Raguse, the juror told the court his phone started "blowing up" as soon as he left court on the first day of jury selection. He told the court he wasn't aware that the proceeding was being live-streamed, Raguse reported.

The man's company even tried to find him a different place to sleep after his identity became public, KARE 11 reported.

Gray apologized to the man and said he hoped that he would not hold the fact that his identity had become public against Potter. The man accepted Gray's apology and said he would not, according to Raguse.

 

[Kristin Esq.]

I'm just now joining this thread and haven't read the past posts. Where is this case being live streamed? And what time on Wednesday do opening statements start?

 

[Kristin Esq.]

The #BlackLivesMatter activist charged with intimidating the judge presiding over the #KimPotter #DaunteWright trial has been extradited from Wisconsin to Minnesota, via
@danimwallace

https://twitter.com/mikerreports/status/1468258037773254662

 

[Kristin Esq.]

Danielle Wallace
@danimwallace
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Court appearance for #CortezRice, charged w/ intimidating judge in #KimPotter #DaunteWright trial just wrapped. He's held WITHOUT BOND b/c this is his 3rd probation violation. Defense tried to argue comments on YouTube live taken out of context by "White supremacist" groups.

 

[Kristin Esq.]

Here is the link for the livestream if anyone is interested:

 

[Kristin Esq.]

Spark of life exhibits - the state wanted 5 pictures, the defense objected, and the court is allowing three.

 

[Kristin Esq.]

Defense objection - A photograph with the eyes of Duante Wright open.

Judge; overruled the defense objections to the photographs (autopsy)

 

[tlcya]

I'm just now joining this thread and haven't read the past posts. Where is this case being live streamed? And what time on Wednesday do opening statements start?

I'm just found this one at ABC youtube

 

[Kristin Esq.]

State is beginning their opening statement.

 

[Tippy Lynn]

Kim Potter, Judge Chu, Earl Gray, Matthew Frank: A court key | kare11.com

 

[Kristin Esq.]

I've watched the Derek Chauvin Trial, the Ahmaud Arbery Trial, pieces of the Kyle Rittenhouse Trial and now this one.

Derek Chauvin was in the same courtroom, with a different judge. It's so interesting to see how Judge's react and rule differently.

 

[Kristin Esq.]

This poor mother is never going to get that image out of her head. My heart is breaking for her.

 

[Shaddow]

This poor mother is never going to get that image out of her head. My heart is breaking for her.

No she isn't. Very sad...

 

[BeachSky]

This poor mother is never going to get that image out of her head. My heart is breaking for her.

The body cam of his mother arriving at the scene....I can’t even

 

[Cool Cats]

Prosecutor Erin Eldridge delivers the state’s opening statement Wednesday

Defense attorney for former officer says all Daunte Wright had to do was surrender

Defense attorney Paul Engh said Potter made a mistake when she grabbed the wrong weapon and shot Wright.

He also said that all Wright had to do was surrender. And he said Potter “had to do what she had to do to prevent a death to a fellow officer” who had reached inside Wright’s car and risked being dragged if Wright drove away.

Prosecutor rips Kim Potter's 'wrong gun' defense in opening statements at ex-officer's trial in the killing of Daunte Wright

According to prosecutor Erin Eldridge, Potter knew how and when to use both her gun and her taser in different situations. Eldridge said that officers in Brooklyn Center are trained not to use a taser if it could cause injury to others, including the use of a taser on someone who is operating a vehicle.

Opening statements began Wednesday in the trial of Kimberly Potter, (center)

"Mere flight from a pursuing officer is not good cause for the use of a taser," Eldridge told the jury.

Potter, who is right-handed, carried her gun on the right side of her belt, and her taser on her left, according to Eldridge.

Eldridge also said Potter received training going back as far as 2016 that said, "if you're right-handed and you carry your taser on the dominant side, they instructed their trainees there's a higher risk of weapon confusion."