The trial of former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter, who fatally shot 20-year-old Black motorist Daunte Wright during an April 11 traffic stop, opened Wednesday in a case that has added fuel to the outrage over reports of police brutality.

State prosecutors and the defense presented opening arguments to the anonymous, mostly white jury at the Hennepin County Courthouse where earlier this year former police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted and sentenced for murdering George Floyd, a Black man whose 2020 death lit a fire under the country that ignited massive racial justice protests.

As an officer in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center, Potter killed Wright during a stop that was recorded on her body camera and from her squad car. The white officer resigned from the police department two days later, and she maintains that she mistakenly drew her gun instead of her Taser while trying to stop Wright from fleeing in his car.

Potter is charged with first- and second-degree manslaughter in Wrights death. Prosecutors on Wednesday argued that the veteran police officer had been repeatedly trained over years on how to avoid the deadly mix-up between a gun and a Taser and yet still got it wrong, costing Wright his life. The state stressed that it is not arguing whether Potter intentionally killed Wright but rather if she ignored her years of training when interacting with the unarmed 20-year-old.