Jurors hear testimony from passenger in Daunte Wright's car during trial of former officer Kimberly
Source: Washington Post
Jurors hear testimony from passenger in Daunte Wright’s car during trial of former officer Kimberly Potter
By Holly Bailey
Today at 9:19 a.m. EST|Updated today at 1:03 p.m. EST
MINNEAPOLIS — The woman who was riding in Daunte Wright’s car when he was pulled over by police testified Thursday about the chaos after he was shot by a suburban Minneapolis officer, telling the jury that she tried to stop his bleeding, but he was just “gasping.”
“I grabbed whatever was in the car. I don’t remember if it was a sweater or a towel or something … and put it on his chest like I had seen in movies and TV shows,” Alayna Albrecht-Payton told the jury, her testimony interrupted by sobs. “I didn’t know what to do.”
Albrecht-Payton, who said she had recently started dating Wright, testified that she heard a bang and then noticed the car began moving. Wright’s hands weren’t on the steering wheel and she was “confused,” but his foot was on the gas as their vehicle collided head-on with another car.
Albrecht-Payton, 20, recalled screaming Wright’s name repeatedly after the crash, trying to get him to respond but “he wasn’t answering me.”
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Original WaPo link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/12/09/kim-potter-trial-daunte-wright-shooting/
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