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MINNEAPOLIS — A police sergeant who was at the scene when Daunte Wright was shot testified Friday that he was holding Wright’s right arm, with both hands, to prevent the 20-year-old from driving away when he heard Officer Kim Potter yell “Taser, Taser, Taser!” followed by a pop.
Mychal Johnson, who was a patrol sergeant in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center at the time of Wright’s killing, took the stand at Ms. Potter’s manslaughter trial. Ms. Potter, who resigned two days after the shooting, says she mistakenly fired her gun instead of her Taser when she killed Wright as he tried to drive away from a traffic stop.
Prosecutors say Ms. Potter was a veteran Brooklyn Center officer who violated her training.
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