Posted on 04/12/2021 3:47:04 PM PDT by rxsid
Police just released bodycam footage of the Daunte Wright shooting. The cop thought she was firing her Taser, not her gun.
Police have released bodycam footage of the shooting of Daunte Wright -- AKA the young man who was killed by police and who protesters are currently using the latest excuse to riot and loot.
The officer thought she had pulled her Taser. Not her gun. She thought she was tasing him, not shooting him. Watch for yourself [Warning: Graphic]:
WARNING GRAPHIC
Brooklyn Center, MN police release bodycam footage of the moments leading to the fatal shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright pic.twitter.com/Ig9CKQaBN0— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) April 12, 2021
She clearly yelled "I'll tase you!" and "Taser! Taser! Taser!" and was clearly shocked when she realized she just shot the guy.
She was an instructor, you know what they say, People who can’t do, teach.
That’s one possibility - an alternate scenario is that she was a street cop that got seniority and then used that seniority to avoid training, only did the bare minimum at qualification time, somehow managed to be elsewhere on excused absence when mandatory briefings are given. The sort of things poor middle managers and senior officers the world over do.
fruitvale station, oakland, california, january 1, 2009 (victim: oscar grant, apparently a bystander to a fight).
So you think it was premeditated murder on her part? Why? So she could be incarcerated for the rest of her life?
My question is what was she doing going up and seemingly jabbing at the risk of the suspect/victim, which seems to be what triggered him to flee, when the first cop appeared to have him under control?
I think I read that their manual says not to taze someone operating a vehicle. If that is correct, I imagine it could be said she was being reckless by attempting to go against protocol on that—and then the result that she inadvertently caused was death.
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