Experts: Potter missed chance to explain Taser-gun mix-up

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"MINNEAPOLIS -- The former Minnesota police officer who shot and killed Daunte Wright alternated between tears, statements of remorse and clipped, matter-of-fact answers as she testified at her trial on manslaughter charges in the death of the Black motorist.

But Kim Potter’s testimony on Friday was notably scant on a key element of her defense – that she made a mistake when she drew her handgun instead of her Taser and killed Wright during a traffic stop last April in Brooklyn Center."...

She can only hope the jury finds her guilty of a lesser charge.

There is indeed stress in the heat of the moment, and that may have been her training failure, but there is a lot of difference between weapons!

The taser is holstered on the weak hand side; weights are different, color, trigger pull, and sight pattern.