Closing Arguments In Kim Potter Case: Watch Livestream

MINNEAPOLIS — Closing arguments are set for Monday in the manslaughter trial of former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter.

In her own testimony Friday, Potter, 49, said she meant to grab and use her Taser instead of her gun when she shot and killed Daunte Wright during a traffic stop April 11.

While on the side of the road and outside of Wright's vehicle, Potter and field officer Anthony Lucky told Wright that he had a warrant and was being arrested. Potter watched as Lucky tried to handcuff Wright, who tensed up.

Watch a livestream of the closing arguments Monday here.

"We were trying to keep him from driving away. It just went chaotic," Potter, crying, told her defense attorney while on the stand. "I remember yelling, ‘Taser, Taser, Taser,’ and nothing happened. And then he told me I shot him."

Potter cried again while state prosecutor Erin Eldridge played moments of Potter's graphic body camera footage during cross-examination and grilled her actions. The full video shows how Potter apparently mistook her gun for a Taser and fired a deadly shot into Wright.

"You knew that deadly force was unreasonable," Eldridge said.

"I didn't want to hurt anybody," Potter cried.

"You know the difference between left and right, don't you?" Eldridge asked, before ending her cross-examination.

After her testimony, the defense rested its case and the state prosecution team declined to call any rebuttal witnesses.

Potter resigned the day after the shooting. She and her husband sold their home in the northwest metro area and no longer live in Minnesota.

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Reporting from the Associated Press was used in this story.