Potter trial enters second week with medical examiner on tap

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The proceedings of a Minnesota constabulary serviceman charged with the shooting decease of Daunte Wright opens its 2nd week of grounds Monday.

A aesculapian examiner is expected to locomotion jurors done Wright's autopsy.

The 20-year-old Black motorist was slain connected April 11 aft being pulled implicit by constabulary successful the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center for expired licence sheet tags and an aerial freshener hanging from his rearview mirror.

Kim Potter resigned 2 days aft the shooting.

The 26-year seasoned serviceman is charged with manslaughter.

Prosecutors spent the archetypal week of grounds showing jurors body-camera and dashcam video that showed the postulation halt and shooting.

According to the Associated Press, footage from the assemblage camera of the incidental showed Wright attempting to fly the country successful his car. The video showed Potter repeatedly yelling "Taser!" earlier pulling her weapon and fatally shooting Wright.

Last week during the trial, Potter's defence squad claimed she innocently pulled her handgun alternatively of her Taser by mistake erstwhile she changeable Wright arsenic helium sought to propulsion distant from a postulation stop, the quality outlet reported.

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