Josh Skluzacek Updated: December 10, 2021 at 06:51 PM Created: December 10, 2021 at 09:02 AM

BCA Assistant Special Agent Charles Michael Phill

The assistant special agent Charles Michael Phill in charge of the BCA was sworn in at 2:07 pm, and then Larson began to interrogate him. Phil said he has worked at the BCA for nearly 15 years and is currently in charge of overseeing the Force Investigation Team. Phil discussed all of his different roles in the BCA career. He said there are about 10 people in his unit.

In a screen shot of a police body camera video displayed in court on Friday, December 10, 2021, former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Porter made a photo after the traffic stop where Dante Wright was shot and killed on April 11, 2021 The response.

Former Brooklyn Center Patrol Sergeant. Mychal Johnson testified in Kim Potter's trial on Friday, December 10, 2021.

Phill discussed the role of the BCA and how they can help avoid conflicts in other departments by investigating the use of lethal force, although the BCA does not need to investigate under the law, but only at the request of the agency. Phill said that BCA relies on local agencies to protect the scene and evidence, keep outsiders away from the scene, and bring relevant parties and witnesses back to the department for BCA investigators to interview them. Phil estimates that he assisted in more than 100 shooting incidents involving police officers and was the main agent for about two dozen. Phill then described a typical BCA's response to the scene.

On April 11, Phil said he was told at around 2:45 pm that the dispatch wanted to connect him with Gruenig, learn about a shooting incident involving an officer, and obtained some information from Gruenig, including his An officer was involved. About an hour later, he arrived at the scene, contacted Gruenig and walked through the crime scene. Phil said he saw Wright’s car, his body was nearby with a gunshot wound to his chest, and then they set up a tent to cover his body, and then asked Grunig more about who was at the scene. condition. Then he contacted his agent, told them what was going on, and introduced himself to Wright's family.

When other BCA team members arrive, they gather information and evidence, and Phil oversees their work. They also toured the area and contacted people living nearby to see if they saw, heard, or had videos of the incident.

Then the state government showed pictures of the scene after setting up the tent, and Phil explained what happened at that time. Phill said that BCA's crime laboratory personnel then focused their attention on Wright's car because there was a lot of blood in it. They also found a firing bullet in the driver's seat.

The Hennepin County Forensic Medical Office arrived at a certain time. Phil said that the BCA would not touch the corpses because they are under the care of a forensic doctor. Phil said that the forensic doctor then took Wright's body and the BCA was able to clean the scene shortly after 7:30 in the evening. BCA also obtained two guns from the Brooklyn Center police, as well as taser and body camera footage.

Phil said that the BCA then brought the evidence back to its headquarters in Sao Paulo, which included Wright's vehicle. Phil said the BCA also collected interviews, training records and other documents from the Brooklyn Center police.

At 2:32pm, Phil was asked for leave

Chu then adjourned the court due to weather. Before the jurors left, she reminded them to follow her instructions and not to discuss or watch any reports of the trial. The juror was fired at 2:37 pm

Attorney Zhu He then discussed some questions about autopsy photos behind closed doors.

The court is scheduled to reopen at 9 a.m. on Monday

The jury was recalled at 1:35 pm, Chu told them it was snowing and she would end the court early after one or two witnesses. Then the state called Tony Gruenig, Acting Chief of the Brooklyn Central Police Department, a 19-year department veteran, and prosecutor Joshua Larson began interrogating him.

Gruenig explained the hierarchy of departments and the different roles of each department. Larson asked Gruenig about the Brooklyn Center's investigation and how it operates, especially when it comes to the Criminal Arrest Bureau. He explained how officials kept the scene and evidence for BCA investigators until they arrived, and then communicated any relevant information to BCA. The police officer involved in the incident was taken back to the police station by another police officer.

Gruenig said he had a lot of interaction with Porter, mostly professionals, but they also shared a gym, and Porter was the chairman of the union. 

On April 11, Grunig said that when he learned that a police officer was involved in the shooting, he had left but was on standby. Then he contacted the sergeant. Johnson told him that Luckey and Potter were involved and the victim was dead. Gruenig then responded to the scene and became the scene commander until the BCA arrived. When he arrived at the scene at about 2:40 pm, he met Officer Sommers briefly and then took the scene from the sheriff. Johnson and Sergeant. Mike Peterson.

After a brief sidebar, Larson continued to question Grunig, who said he learned the sergeant. Johnson was involved when he arrived at the scene, and Johnson had to be taken back to the police station. He added that Porter and Ludge had returned to the department. Gruenig said he subsequently contacted the BCA and asked them to investigate a shooting incident involving police officers. After telling his sergeant that BCA was coming, Grunig had a brief conversation with Wright's mother. He then communicated what he knew to BCA agent Mike Phill.

After another brief sidebar, Grunig confirmed that he told Phil that the Brooklyn Central Police Department would be open so that he could conduct a fair and independent investigation. Gruenig said he stayed at the scene until the BCA was investigating the scene, until around 7:45 p.m. Gruenig confirmed that the Brooklyn Central Police Station was open and available for the BCA to conduct a fair investigation.

At 2:06 pm, Gruenig was fired.

At 11:41 in the morning, the jury was recalled. Chu told the jurors that it hadn't snowed yet. Defense lawyer Earl Gray then began to interrogate Johnson. Johnson said that since he started working at the Brooklyn Central Police Department, he has known Porter and they have become friends "in the past few years." Johnson said Porter exceeded expectations in her comments, and as far as he knows, she has never received a complaint of excessive force. When asked about weapon violations, Johnson said that it meant “if they had weapons before, then they might have them again.” Johnson added that on the passenger side of the vehicle, he was covering and arresting the police. Going through the arrest process again, Gray pointed out that it was about 13 seconds after Johnson told Wright that he was arrested and Wright tried to get in the car. Johnson said it sounds right, but he cannot be sure without seeing the timestamp. Then Gray started talking about the next six seconds and the state object. Chu, sounding a little frustrated, told the country to keep a word of opposition or demand sidebar, and then the country demanded.

A few minutes later, Zhu said that the government's objections were rejected, and Gray continued. About six seconds after Wright pulled away from Lackey for the first time, Gray said, "I'll beat you." He asked Johnson if he heard it. Johnson said "Yes" but seemed confused. Gray told him this. It was before Johnson said it was time before he heard Potter. Gray continued through the arrest process and asked if Wright was still resisting, Johnson answered "yes". Gray asked if the police should let Wright go when he rebelled. Johnson said no, you tried to arrest him. Gray asked if the suspect was correct in resisting the use of force, and Johnson replied, "Yes." Gray continued to tell the whole story, Johnson answered "yes" many times. When asked if Wright stopped resisting before the gunshots sounded, Johnson said: "No." He confirmed that the yelling "Taser, Taser, Taser" was to warn other police officers. When asked if he had received training to shoot twice with a gun, Johnson said, "not every time," but he confirmed the use of lethal force. He also confirmed that he lost his way after the car was speeding away due to the loud gunfire, and added that the car took off very quickly. He also confirmed that he was worried about Potter because she said what she did.

When asked what would happen if Johnson left the car while he was still inside, he said "maybe being dragged...injured." Gray said: "Seriously injured, maybe even dead, right?" Johnson said "yes." He agreed that state regulations allow the use of lethal force to avoid the death of officers, and Porter has the right to use guns.

Gray ended at 12:03 pm. Frank asked about the right to use guns and asked whether officers using lethal force need to consider the surrounding environment, including the possibility of harming another officer or civilians. Johnson replied, "Yes." As a defensive object, Frank looked confused and asked for another sidebar. A minute later, Frank rewrote it. Johnson said he was "six inches to a foot" behind Wright when the gunfire sounded, as did Albrecht Payton. Frank noticed that Johnson did use his gun or Taser against Wright, and he was not towed away by the car. Johnson said that he stood up when the car drove away, and he had been leaning on the street. Upon Frank's questioning, Johnson also pointed out that Wright's car did not move until Porter used her gun. "In the car, such a loud noise makes you a little off balance and makes you a little confused," Johnson said of the gunfire. Under Frank's inquiry, Johnson also confirmed that neither Wright nor Albrecht Payton had hit him. Wright did try to grab the shift knob, but Johnson was able to stop it. Johnson also confirmed that he was taking a risk when he entered the vehicle and mitigated this risk by grabbing the shift knob. Johnson confirmed that he had never seen Wright possess a weapon or a weapon within reach. Questions about the use of guns and taser caused another pair of defense objections, and Frank asked for another sidebar.

A few minutes later, Chu maintained the defense's opposition, and Frank continued. When asked when Potter said she pulled the wrong gun after Wright’s car drove away, Johnson said, “I don’t know what she was thinking,” and pointed out that part of the reason was that he didn’t see it from her perspective. Matter. Johnson pointed out that he thought Porter was a good colleague.

Gray then took a step back and Johnson pointed out that cars can be weapons, and hollow bullets are better to stay in the human body than to pass through them.

Gray sat down and Frank jumped up and noticed that the hollow bullet would affect the damage caused by the person who was hit. Johnson confirmed this. When asked about shooting people in the vehicle, Johnson pointed out that police policy states that when the vehicle moves, you may incapacitate people and cause an accident. Gray quickly asked if the vehicle was moving, and Johnson said, "No."

At 12:23 in the afternoon, Johnson left, Chu told the jury to leave for lunch and added that she would check the weather.

After the jurors left, Chu discussed the autopsy photos with the lawyer. Gray asked them if they wanted to leave the court early today, and Chu Xiao said that she was monitoring the weather. Then she took a break for lunch until 1:30 in the afternoon

The jury was called to court at 10:08 am on Friday. Judge Regina Chu spoke during the snowstorm and assured the jurors that if the situation starts to deteriorate, she will monitor the weather and may end the court early.

Former Brooklyn Center Patrol Sergeant. Mychal Johnson was then sworn in, and Assistant Attorney General Matthew Frank began interrogating him. He has been with the Brooklyn Central Police Department since 2005 and has been the sheriff since October 2015. He became Porter's supervisor in 2019 and stated that he will occasionally interact with Porter outside of work after 2019. He now works in the Goodhue County Sheriff’s Office after leaving the Brooklyn Central Police Station. October.

He talked about the training of the Taser and how he voluntarily let the Taser be used on him, and only once, because "this is not a good feeling." He said it would make you lose control of your body. Johnson added that when a police officer stunned the suspect with his finger between the probes of the taser, he had been indirectly affected by the taser "on many occasions."

Moving on to April 11, Johnson recalled hearing Luckey said he was parking in traffic and needed an additional policeman as a backup. Johnson said this was normal. Then he described his reaction to the scene to provide backup, and said that after he arrived, Potter and Lackey told him that Wright had an excellent weapon order and an order to protect him. They decided that Luckey would arrest Wright and then investigate the protection order further. Johnson said that Luckey walked to the driver's side, Potter followed him, and he walked to the passenger's side to better understand what was going on in the car.

Then, before asking Wright to get off the car, the state will play Johnson’s body camera and dash cam video from Wright’s transit station. Johnson explained that he saw Albrecht Payton in the passenger seat of the car. He also heard Porter comment that Wright was one of the Wright brothers, and Johnson replied that he didn't think so. He explained that when Luckey went to handcuff him and heard Luckey say something to Wright about not leaving, he saw part of Wright's body move away. Johnson said he then opened the passenger door and reached into the car to make sure it was closed and parked in the park so that Wright could not drive away. When questioned by Frank, he confirmed that his feet are always on the ground outside the car. He said he was not sure if the car was on or off, but he then tried to turn off the key to make sure. At that time, Wright was fighting with Luckey and trying to get back into the car, Johnson speculated that this meant Wright would try to drive away. Johnson said, and then he grabbed Wright's right arm with both hands to prevent him from moving the vehicle, and placed his arm in a handcuffed position. He explained that then he heard Potter shouting, "Taser, Taser, Taser", prompting him to release Wright’s arm so that he would not be hit or pinched by the Taser probe. live. He noticed that Wright was sitting in the driver's seat and wanted to shift the gear knob, so he got out of the car. Then he "heard a loud noise."

Then the state played more Johnson's body camera videos. Johnson explained the video a few seconds at a time. After the playback is complete, the state will play a composite video with Johnson’s body camera video and dash cam video at the same time. Upon completion, Johnson said that he did not go to the place where Wright's vehicle crashed because he saw Officer Salvosa arrived there when Wright crashed. Johnson added that he knew from Potter that she had shot, but did not know whether Wright or Albrecht Payton had been shot.

Then he shouted over the radio that the gun had been fired and needed additional help. "I know we have two scenes. We did shoot and need extra help, no matter what happened," Johnson said. Because he, Luckey, and Potter were all involved in the incident, Johnson said he knew he needed someone else to take over as the on-site supervisor and called on other agencies to help because he knew they would need more police officers than the Brooklyn Center That day. Then he sat Potter and Luckey down and told Potter to breathe. In the video of his body camera, Potter can also be heard saying: "Oh my God, what did I do? What did I do?"

After Porter said "I'm going to jail," someone heard Johnson say, "That guy tried to take off with me in the car." Later, in the video, Porter was heard asking Johnson to call Porter's union representative. Questioning Porter's role in the union can cause defense opposition and lead to sidebars. A few minutes later, Chu told the jury to ignore Porter's marriage.

Then Johnson took Potter's gun, put it in his holster as evidence, and put his gun in Potter's holster. Then the state played Johnson’s body camera video. In the video, he and Potter exchanged their guns and heard Potter say: "I don't know what happened." Finally, two other sergeants rushed to the scene to take over the scene. , Johnson told them what he knew. He also assigned two other police officers to monitor Luckey and Potter to make sure they were not involved in anything else.

Johnson said that before he left the scene, he learned that another police officer was worried that Potter might hurt himself. He said that then he removed the ammunition from the gun for Potter so that there would be no bullets in her gun. In the end, after he transferred responsibility for the scene to other police officers, he was taken back to the police station and met with investigators from the Minnesota Criminal Arrest Bureau, and gave them Potter's gun as evidence. Johnson added that because the BCA kept it, he never saw his gun again.

Frank then said he had no further questions, and Chu asked for a 20-minute break in the morning before the defensive side questioned Johnson.

When Johnson's body camera video appeared, Potter was shaking and crying, sometimes burying his head in his hands. Wright's mother, Katie Bryant, was also in court, crying quietly during the video.

On Thursday, nine other witnesses testified in the trial of former Brooklyn Center police officer Kimberly Porter, including Daunte Wright's girlfriend and passengers on April 11.

Porter, 49, was charged with first- and second-degree manslaughter in Wright's death.

The testimony is scheduled to continue on Friday morning, and the autopsy photos may be released sometime during the day.

The court is scheduled to reopen at 10 a.m.-an hour later than usual.

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