Officer, Kim Potter convicted of 1st and 2nd degree manslaughter in fatal shooting.
Replies to: Officer, Kim Potter convicted of 1st and 2nd degree manslaughter in fatal shooting.
She should have been given a medal for getting the dirt bag off the street.He
was scum. Society a better place without him. Instead they make him a hero
A 100% travesty of justice
Shame on that jury. By all accounts this was a tense situation initiated by the suspect that led to an honest mistake by a good cop.
Our justice system is not healthy.
Jury had no guts, but she should have been guilty of some sort of negligence. Absolutely egregious
mistake. We will see what happens with sentencing. Also the judge had no guts as she doesn't have to be in jail yet, absolutely no risk of flight and no threat to society.
I don’t know if it was a travesty. She bears some responsibility. He bears more IMHO.
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Don’t you think the jury had a better vantage point than you?
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No. The facts of the case are well known and not in dispute
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Black lives matter only if the are fleeing criminals
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At the end of the day that should be respected, But, I also can’t say I think they got it right
either. Tough case.
Do you think it was a correct decision?
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Her story: I panicked & grabbed the wrong weapon. Him? He's dead. What charge shoulda' been brought?
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Maybe none. He had an open warrant for gun charges and was non compliant.
You can make a decent moral argument that if it was an honest mistake she shouldn’t have been charged for what he clearly set into motion.
You think a black cop killing a white guy under similar circumstances gets charged? Or if it was white cop killing a white guy? This was charged based on race.
This is probably correct.
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Thank you. Based on the video showing a resisting perp with an open warrant I agree
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Not sure though she was negligent but how much of it was his fault?
All too often officers are thrust into a tense situation with out warning. No officer can be expected to be cool under all circumstances. They were to make an arrest, the subject refused, heightened the moment into a confrontation that went way wrong.
She’s culpable but so is Duante.
I didn’t follow the trial so I don’t know more than what was initially reported.
Do you think the right determination was made?
Honestly, I don't know. I'm inclined to think she was overcharged.
I am sympathetic to the mistake, and the arrestee definitely put her in a bad position in which she could make that mistake. I have little sympathy for anyone who would resist arrest. The time to challenge an unjust arrest is after it occurred, not during the arrest. People should know that. And I have a strong feeling, correct or not, that people who don't behave properly in those scenarios kind of get what they deserve.
And yet, I definitely think that our police use excessive force, and we need to figure out a way to back that down. Today's police are trained like the military in many respects: Do what it takes to get home safe. But, the police aren't facing an enemy military, they are facing US citizens, and the standard should be higher for them before force is used. I don't think this was a good test case for handling that issue. Seems like we (the media, the nation) seem to pick all the wrong test cases for this...and even when we do pick a good test case, we end up racializing it and politicizing it, which distracts from what we need our police to do, which is stop using excessive force regardless of race.
A lot. She is paying the price and he paid the ultimate price. He is the one with a a warrant for
gun charges. He decides to fight with the cops. He doesn’t do these things, none of this happens. Same with arsehole Rittenhouse deciding underage to illegally bring a semi auto weapon across state lines to a riot.
Bad news for Alec Baldwin.
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Yeah, he should have yelled "Taser" first.
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Officer Potter should just claim she didn't pull the trigger.
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No, she should have said she was in a movie not acting as a police officer.
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A killing is a killing. On the street w/ an uncooperative suspect or on a movie set.
Both unintentional.
I see you're still having difficulty identifying two totally different events. Both tragic,
both completely different from each other.
Do you ever getting tired of being the smartest guy in the room?
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The real question is, "... of being the dumbest...?"
I don't think you are dumb; you manage to post inane posts.
You can give yourself a pat on the back, but your agreement is still biased big time.
I know exactly what your intent is with the officer. It is predetermined no matter what the verdict was. Predictable.......yes. Flawed.....yes.
Ouch!
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Residue left over from the George Floyd trial.
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Glad we live in a country of laws and justice, where people aren't prosecuted for political reasons.
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