A former suburban Minneapolis police officer who has said she meant to use a Taser instead of a handgun when she fatally shot Daunte Wright in April went on trial on Wednesday. Kim Potter, a former Brooklyn Center Police officer was identified in April as responsible for the fatal shooting of 20-year-old Wright, whose death was ruled as homicide by medical examiners. Potter, 49, is charged with first-degree and second-degree manslaughter and has pleaded not guilty to both charges. Police bodycam and dashcam footage shown at the start of Potter’s manslaughter trial showed her collapsing in tears after shooting and killing Wright during a traffic stop near Minneapolis on April 11. “Oh (expletive)! I just shot him,” Potter can be heard shouting at the scene just moments after the incident, before crumpling over. “I grabbed the wrong (expletive) gun! I shot him. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. …
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