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2021-12-23 -War on Police-

Kim Potter trial: Minneapolis jury finds ex-police officer guilty in death of Daunte Wright

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-12-23 15:27|| || Front Page|| [17 views ] Top
File under: Mob Rule

#1 I'm sure all the cops in Minneapolis are going to bed tonight with a warm fuzzy feeling about putting their lives on the line every day.

Posted by jpal 2021-12-23 16:22|| 2021-12-23 16:22|| Front Page Top

#2 If you don't have mixed feelings about this, you aren't looking at it very closely.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-23 16:45|| 2021-12-23 16:45|| Front Page Top

#3 I don't have mixed feelings about it (I'll give her the benefit of the doubt) but I'll pass on what my roomie said about it (he's got 43 years in on a local police force) - 'there's no way you go to pull your service weapon and not know the difference between it being a gun or a taser'.

Posted by Raj 2021-12-23 17:01|| 2021-12-23 17:01|| Front Page Top

#4 seems like a bad verdict since she clearly didn't mean to shoot

on the other hand I've never heard of anyone mistaking a gun for a taser so the negligence may have been extreme

Posted by Lord Garth 2021-12-23 17:23|| 2021-12-23 17:23|| Front Page Top

#5 So "didn't mean to" carries more or less weight depending on whether your name is or isn't Alec Baldwin.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-23 17:27|| 2021-12-23 17:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Drone striking a guy and his kids unloading water bottles in Afghanistan is extreme negligence too. How many people are going to prison for that?

Posted by jpal 2021-12-23 17:28|| 2021-12-23 17:28|| Front Page Top

#7 /\ But, but, but that strike was most certainly 'green lighted' by the White House.

Different rules apply.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-12-23 17:32|| 2021-12-23 17:32|| Front Page Top

#8 The way to avoid accidents is not by being careful, but by arranging things so they can't be done wrong. The original formulation of Murphy's Law was "If there is a way to do it wrong, somebody will".

The f**k-up here was wearing both the taser and the gun on the same side which created the possibility of grabbing the wrong one. It is easy to win a round of "Taser? or Gun?" with both weapons laying on the table. But this was real life, in the heat of the moment, with the perp trying to drive off with 2 officers hanging out of the car. I suspect Officer Potter's hand was much more familiar with drawing her gun than her taser.

The prosecution has said they'll seek an upward departure from sentencing guidelines due to aggravating factors, arguing that Potter's actions were a danger to others and that she abused her authority as a police officer.
That is Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (bees pee upon him) playing to the cheap seats. Just more fodder for the race war.

Posted by SteveS 2021-12-23 18:48|| 2021-12-23 18:48|| Front Page Top

#9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZUW-BBPGM0

The Legal Problem with Kim Potter's GUILTY Verdict - From a Minnesota Lawyer

Posted by newc 2021-12-23 19:09|| 2021-12-23 19:09|| Front Page Top

#10 I'm done with 'less than lethal'. Remove all of it. If you resist, you get shot, you stop getting shot when you stop resisting.

We also need to bring back the three strikes law but it needs to be 3 strikes and you get hauled out behind the court house, tied to a stake and 4 guys with AA-12's loaded with Frag-12 rounds turn you into confetti.

Posted by Silentbrick 2021-12-23 20:15|| 2021-12-23 20:15|| Front Page Top

#11 Not defending Potter's screwup but once again, the vibrant youth & coulda-been-Soetoro's-son & Honor student has a colorful background

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-23 20:32|| 2021-12-23 20:32|| Front Page Top

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