Daunte Wright's girlfriend, Alayna Albrecht-Payton, tearfully recalled his final moments on the witness stand on day two of the trial of former Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kim Potter.
Family attorney for the Daunte Wright family, Tony Romanucci, discusses the claims that Potter failed to follow her training and the defense’s argument that she made an innocent mistake.girlfriend, Alayna Albrecht-Payton, tearfully recalled his final moments on the witness stand on day two of the trial of former Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kim Potter.
"He was really scared -- I'd never seen him like that before," Albrecht-Payton said."If you know Daunte, he's really happy and positive and you can't be sad or depressed or angry around him."Alayna Albrecht-Payton, a passenger in Daunte Wright's car, testifies in court, Dec. 9, 2021, in the trial of former Brooklyn Center police Officer Kim Potter at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn.
Albrecht-Payton also testified that she does not remember some of what happened because she suffered from a concussion, a fractured jaw, a lacerated lip and had to get stitches on her ear from the car crash. "I was delirious, I was just screaming, 'they just shot him, they just shot him,'" Albrecht-Payton said.Alayna Albrecht-Payton, a passenger in Daunte Wright's car, testifies in court, Dec. 9, 2021, in the trial of former Brooklyn Center police Officer Kim Potter at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn. Potter is on trial for the shooting of Wright, a 20-year-old Black motorist, following a traffic stop in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center.
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