Kim Potter's lawyers are portraying her mistake—fatally shooting Daunte Wright with a firearm when she says she meant to grab her Taser—as an 'action error.'
This is when"we do one thing while meaning to do another," according to her defense attorney Paul Engh.
Potter is the former Brooklyn Center police officer charged in the death of Wright, a 20-year-old Black man who was fatally shot during a traffic stop in April. Miller described an action error in more detail for the jury deciding whether Potter is guilty of first- and second-degree manslaughter. She has pleaded not guilty.
He added,"You intend to do one thing, think you're doing that thing, but do something else and only realize later that the action that you intended was not the one you took.""There are three main factors," Miller said."[A] person is under an extreme degree of stress. But what's interesting is that the arousal [does not] necessarily cause the action error."This undated file booking photo provided by the Hennepin County, Minn.
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