As Kim Potter broke down on the stand, prosecutor Erin Eldridge asked, "You knew that deadly force was unreasonable and unwarranted" in the killing of Daunte Wright.
"I'm sorry," Potter said through sobs. "I didn't want to hurt anybody."
Eldridge then pressed, "You testified … that after you saw a scared look on Sgt. [Mychal] Johnson's face, that's why you decided to use the Taser?"
"Yes," Potter replied.
"But you also told Dr. [Laurence] Miller that you don't know why you decided to use the Taser?" Eldridge said.
In this image taken from video, former Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kim Potter testifies during her trial, Dec. 17, 2021, in Minneapolis. Potter is charged with first- and second-degree manslaughter in the shooting of Daunte Wright.
She asked Potter why she remembered some aspects of the shooting in earlier conversations but not on the witness stand.
"You said that there are a lot of things that you don't remember, that you directly testified that your memory came back when you saw your husband that day," Eldridge asked. "But didn't you tell Dr. Miller that you remember seeing the gun in your right hand?"
Potter replied: "I don't remember my interview with him. I was distraught. I wasn't in a good place."
Body camera footage shows Potter sobbing and crying following the shooting, saying she's going to go to jail. Eldridge asked Potter about this.
"You didn't behave like someone who had just saved certain Johnson's life, did you?" she asked. "You never asked Sergeant Johnson if he was OK, right?"
