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Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, whose office prosecuted the case, said they had achieved accountability for Wright's death.

"This was no little oopsie. This was not putting the wrong date on a check. This was not entering the wrong password somewhere. This was a colossal screw-up, a blunder of epic proportions," Eldridge said. "It was precisely the thing she had been warned about for years, and she had been trained to prevent it."

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"Accountability is not justice. Justice is restoration. Justice would be restoring Daunte to life and making the Wright family whole again," he added.

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Potter's defense team argued that Wright had caused his own death by ignoring police orders and attempting to escape. Because of that, they said, Potter should not be held criminally liable.

Potter winced when the verdict was read but otherwise appeared not to react. A short while later, she was handcuffed and taken into custody pending sentencing.

Whether Potter had intended to draw her Taser or handgun was not at issue in the trial. Lawyers for both sides agreed she mistakenly drew the wrong weapon. Instead, the trial centered on questions of whether she should have recognized she was holding the heavier metal gun or whether she should have drawn any weapon at all.

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"I'm going to tase you," Potter shouted. But in her right hand was a dark 9 mm Glock pistol, not the bright yellow Taser that remained holstered on her left side. Five seconds later, she yelled, "Taser! Taser! Taser!" and then fired a single round into Wright's side. He was pronounced dead on the scene.

The footage also shows the immediately aftermath of the shooting, in which Potter appears shocked. She gasps and says, "I grabbed the wrong f***ing gun" before collapsing to the curb with her head in her hands.

Axon's AI-powered automated license plate reader (ALPR) delivers up to 8X or more the plate reads for the same spend as traditional systems

"She drew a deadly weapon, she aimed it, she pointed it at Daunte Wright's chest and she fired," Assistant Attorney General Erin Eldridge said during the state's closing argument on Monday.

Potter's lawyers also argued that the use of deadly force was appropriate, because a third officer, Sgt. Mychal Johnson, was leaning into the car through the passenger door in an attempt to keep Wright from controlling the gearshift. Had Wright been allowed to drive away, they said, Johnson's safety would have been in jeopardy.

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"We are proud of the connected capabilities of the Fleet 3 in-car video solution," says Axon CEO and founder, Rick Smith. "With seamless connection and integration into our real-time situational awareness platform, Respond for Devices, agencies will have better visibility into what's happening in the field."

Potter, who resigned from the force following the shooting, broke down on the stand on Friday, crying as she testified that she "didn't want to hurt anybody."

Footage recorded by body-worn cameras and a dashboard camera in the squad car, which was played for jurors during the trial, captured the final chaotic moments of Wright's life.

Axon is partnering with industry-leading companies as a part of this launch, including Flock Safety who provides advanced security for communities and the law enforcement agencies that serve them. Axon's partnership allows police departments to deploy a network of both fixed and mobile ALPR systems at a disruptively affordable price by offering Flock Safety's industry-leading and ethically-designed fixed ALPR solution alongside Axon's Fleet 3 in-car video and mobile ALPR solution. The Fleet 3 and Flock Safety system are seamlessly integrated in Axon Evidence for customers who use both.

The deadly confrontation on April 11 began when Potter, together with Anthony Luckey, a new officer she was training that day, pulled over Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, for having expired license tabs and a dangling air freshener on his rearview mirror — an infraction in Minnesota.

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., June 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Axon (Nasdaq: AXON), the global leader in connected public safety technologies, today announced that its next generation Fleet 3 in-car video system is now shipping to customers. Built from the ground up with ethics in mind, the in-car video system features Axon's AI-powered ALPR service along with real-time situational awareness through Axon Respond for Devices, fundamentally raising the bar on what agencies should expect from in-car video systems. Axon has partnered with industry leaders Flock Safety, Cradlepoint, and Airgain to make the Fleet 3 solution a reality.

The stop escalated when police realized that Wright, though not armed, was wanted for arrest for failing to appear in court on a weapons charge. As Luckey attempted to arrest and handcuff Wright, Wright wriggled away and got back into his car.

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Katie Bryant, Wright's mother, said after the trial that she felt "every single emotion that you could imagine" as the verdict was read. "I kind of let out a yelp, because it was built up in the anticipation of what was to come," she said.

"We are excited to be one of the first agencies to trial the Axon Fleet 3 in-car camera system with ALPR and we are very impressed with the overall value of this advanced integration," says Lieutenant Jon Moses of Johns Creek Police Department. "Our agency prides itself on being at the forefront of public safety technology, and with the Fleet 3 ALPR technology, our officers will be able to better serve our community."

Prosecutors did not dispute that the shooting was an accident. But they said that in her 26 years on the force, Potter had undergone extensive firearm and Taser training, including how to avoid confusing the two. They turned to use-of-force experts and the police department's policy handbook to argue that the use of a Taser was inappropriate to begin with.

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In this screen grab from police body camera footage shown in court in the trial of Kim Potter, the Brooklyn Center, Minn., police officer reacts after the April 11 traffic stop in which Daunte Wright was fatally shot. AP hide caption

Potter is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 18. The state's sentencing guidelines recommend a sentence of roughly seven years for the first-degree charge and four years for the second-degree charge, though prosecutors indicated they would seek a longer sentence.

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"In the walk of life, nobody's perfect. Everybody makes mistakes. Some of those mistakes are small mistakes, but some of them are very serious."

Starting in March 2021, eight domestic and international agencies deployed Axon Fleet 3 as a part of an intensive Beta trial, including Johns Creek (Ga.) PD, Joliet (Ill.) PD, Grand Prairie (Texas) PD, Fort Worth (Texas) PD and Nevada Highway Patrol to name a few.

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Kim Potter, the former Minnesota police officer who mistakenly drew her handgun instead of her Taser during a traffic stop in April in which she fatally shot Daunte Wright, has been found guilty.

The verdict follows a closely watched two-week trial capped by Potter's turn on the witness stand, where she sobbed while recalling the shooting and said she was "so sorry" for what happened.

Wright's death occurred roughly 10 miles from the courthouse where Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, was convicted in a trial for murdering George Floyd, whose death fueled national protests against police abuse and racial injustice.

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Axon is simultaneously addressing industry shortcomings to improve data security, transparency and privacy by applying a high level of ethical consideration to all products. Developed to balance effectiveness with privacy and accountability, Axon Fleet 3 leverages Axon-developed AI to power the ALPR technology while incorporating safeguards as outlined by Axon's AI Ethics Board report on Automated License Plate Readers.

Potter is believed to be the third Minnesota police officer to be convicted in the on-duty death of a civilian. The first was Mohamed Noor, a Somali American officer found guilty of manslaughter after fatally shooting a white woman. Chauvin became the second when he was convicted of murder in April.

"This breakthrough technology is a game changer for in-car cameras," says Blake Bullock, Director of Axon Fleet. "We've substantially elevated the simple in-car dash camera to one that can automatically and simultaneously scan plates across multiple lanes of traffic at closing speeds up to 140 mph. We've designed the system to be disruptively affordable to allow for ALPR deployment across an agency's entire fleet of police vehicles instead of just in a small number of designated vehicles."

Axon's Respond for Devices technology is built right into Fleet 3, bringing real-time situational awareness including live video streaming, alerts, and location updates enabled by LTE or 5G connectivity — providing real-time visibility and location mapping of vehicles in the field.

In this screen grab from police body camera footage shown in court in the trial of Kim Potter, the Brooklyn Center, Minn., police officer reacts after the April 11 traffic stop in which Daunte Wright was fatally shot.

Jurors had been deliberating since Monday before finding Potter, who had served as an officer in Brooklyn Center, Minn., for 26 years, guilty of first- and second-degree manslaughter charges in the death of Wright.

Additionally, Axon has partnered with Cradlepoint, the leader in wireless mobile network solutions, to provide superior in-vehicle and on-scene Wi-Fi and cellular connectivity. Axon has also partnered with Airgain to provide antennas for wireless connectivity to Axon Evidence and with other Axon devices on scene, such as body-worn cameras.

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