Posted on 04/13/2021 3:59:34 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Sources tell 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS the Washington County Attorney's Office is planning on charging former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter on Wednesday.
The case was sent to the Washington County Attorney's Office to avoid a conflict of interest with the Hennepin County Attorney's Office, which works closely with Brooklyn Center Police on criminal cases. The extent of the charges will be learned tomorrow.
Brooklyn Center Police released body camera video that shows officer Potter shooting and killing 20-year-old Daunte Wright Sunday afternoon.
Brooklyn Center's former police chief, Tim Gannon, publicly stated he believed Potter accidentally discharged her weapon believing she was using her taser and not her gun.
Potter and Gannon resigned from the Brooklyn Center Police Department on Tuesday.
But of course... Chauvin might be about get off...
But this one... this is the new sacrificial lamb...
A white woman.
Who would want to be a cop in that town. No money would be enough for that.
I think ‘negligent’ is probably a better description of what happened. But, I’m not sure if it’s a better description from a purely legal point of view. And/BUT, IANAL so maybe that’s not true.
In most jurisdictions, to be guilty of negligent homicide, you have to be doing something that is plainly reckless, perhaps even unlawful. IE, you’re speeding and you hit a pedestrian, that’s generally negligent vehicular homicide. But, if you’re not speeding and instead you hit the accelerator when you meant to hit the gas, that doesn’t necessarily meet the standard.
Clearly, she didn’t intend to kill him. Clearly, he was resisting arrest and his arrest was warranted and deploying the taser was almost certainly warranted..
Is incompetence a crime? I really don’t know.
Wow. I’m stunned. I’m shocked.
Not really...........
She held the gun in her had for six seconds and said it was a taser before discharging the weapon. She will be charged and go to trial, but it will be a difficult conviction. For now, her career is over, and the lawyer bills will bankrupt her.
“COMPLYIN’ MEANS NOT DYIN’”. Apparently the deceased bears zero responsibility in this event. As usual. Was he diving into the car to retrieve a weapon? How would the LEO know one way or the other. In any case, with that many years on the force, one would hope that Officer Potter had enough training to know the difference between her service firearm and the tazer. Guess not so much.
You mean he wasn’t on the way to hand deliver his medical school application to the Mayo Clinic?
I’m flabbergasted.
C’mon guys.
It is manslaughter...
It depends on State law. Many States set recklessness as the threshold
Mens Rea for criminal conduct. A very similar incident happened to a female officer in Kansas a couple of years ago and the judge dismissed the charges as the preliminary hearing because while she was negligent, she wasn’t reckless and recklessness was the threshold for criminality.
Negligent homicide or 2nd degree manslaughter.
Whatever they call it there.
If they up-charge she might get off.
it clearly was not accidental. She pulled a weapon and shot him. She may have meant to use a nonlethal weapon but she meant to fire something at him. I have a problem with the use of accidental in that context. Mistaken or negligent works better imho
She should not have resigned until the job provided legal counsel.
Charge first . . . investigate later.
unless we throw out all of the politicians who support these neo Marxists agitators and their global money supporters this country is GONE.
She would have been fired if she didn’t resign.
FWIW, the department (almost) never pays for criminal defense lawyers. Instead, cops under a collective bargaining agreement usually have liability insurance paid for by their union. Non-union cops will sometimes have liability insurance as a employee benefit, either provided partially or fully covered.
Those that have no liability coverage either from a union or employer will have to buy it privately, which is not uncommon. It’s not super expensive, but it’s not nothing, something between $500 and $1,200 annually.
Agreed.
More innocent lives destroyed.
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