Minnesota officer was 'betraying her badge' in killing of Daunte Wright, prosecutor says

'Their duty to their badge and to the community is to protect life, not to take life.”

Moments before Daunte Wright was fatally shot by Minnesota police, his mother reassured the young man that he hadn't "done anything wrong" and that "everything would be OK," she told jurors on Wednesday.

"He sounded nervous, scared. 'You haven't done anything wrong,'" she recalled telling her son. "He sounded really nervous. I reassured him that it would be OK." Bryant's testimony came after Assistant Attorney General Erin Eldridge said in opening statements that Potter had betrayed the "public faith and public trust" vested in her when she fatally shot Wright.

Defense attorney Paul Engh, in his opening statement, put blame for the deadly confrontation squarely on Wright's shoulders.

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