Posted on 12/20/2021 10:50:27 AM PST by L.A.Justice
I'm usually protective of cops, and give them a great deal of leeway when dealing with thugs like Wright. In this case, I think this mistake is inexcusable, though I'm not sure which criminal act she is guilty of. Some sort of negligent homicide. I do agree that jail time is unnecessary here, but I think a felony conviction of sort is deserved.
My difficulty with your proposition about Potter is that you or I would be held to an entirely different standard by people like Potter.
“BTW, for the record, you are worrying about the fate of a fugitive, one who was charged with choking and robbing a woman.”
What the dead guy did or did not do is not on trial here. What an officer of the law did is what’s on trial.
The Constitution does not have a clause that says cops get to kill people who are accused of crimes. It says that everyone is supposed to be equal before the law.
I'm worried about police officers killing people unnecessarily. Having a badge is not a license to kill.
I’m not a juror. I can use any facts I want, or none at all, to make a judgment of the incident.
You want to make law enforcenment a sport. Guess what? That’s what you’re gonna get. Hope you enjoy it.
There’s much more to this case than taking flight.
The jury should not consider what Kim Potter would or wouldn’t do. The fact is that what she is charged with, man 1 and 2, both require that she consciously shoots the victim. IMO that was never proven by the prosecution.
‘by the person’s culpable negligence whereby the person creates an unreasonable risk, and consciously
takes chances of causing death or great bodily harm to another”.
Are you somehow missing the fact that this must be a conscious decision? The prosecutor has to prove that in addition to negligence.
You’re saying Chauvin intended to kill Floyd?
> You’re saying Chauvin intended to kill Floyd? <
No, of course not. And there’s not a hint of that in my previous post.
The Chauvin and Potter case are similar in that neither cop meant to kill - or even injure - the suspect. But here’s where it differs. Potter made a single-second error. She didn’t keep on shooting at the suspect as he drove away.
Chauvin, on the other hand, keep his actions going for quite a few minutes. He kept Floyd restrained on the ground. Would Floyd be alive today otherwise? It’s a mess. I honestly don’t know.
Which is precisely my point: that “intent” should always be weighed heavily when essentially ending the defendant’s life as he/she knows it.
It’s quite frustrating to me that so many (see the 2020 BLM/ANTIFA riots) thugs whose sole intent was causing death, mayhem, and physical and property damage are simply let off the hook.
Whereas law enforcement officers whose lethal actions, while at times horrible, tragic, and regrettable to the nth degree, can still, at times, be legitimately classified as something we’ve all experienced to one extent or another: they made a terrible mistake in the course of doing what they thought was right.
“Are you somehow missing the fact that this must be a conscious decision? “
She consciously drew the weapon and consciously pulled the trigger ...
Potter: I thought it was a Taser.
Baldwin: I thought it was unloaded.
“There’s much more to this case than taking flight.”
Educate me.
Do what the cop tells you to do when the cop tells you to do it and your chances of being shot by a cop drop to nearly zero.
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” be legitimately classified as something we’ve all experienced to one extent or another”
Sorry. I have never killed anyone with my ‘Taser’.
“It was 100% an accident.
But does her negligence rise to the level of criminal behavior”
Even accidents can be criminal acts. Culpable Negligence. Second Degree manslaughter.
“t (and trust me, I’m no cop-lover).”
And neither a lawyer.
Did the patient die?
NASHVILLE (WSMV) - A former Vanderbilt nurse who’s on trial for administering a deadly dose of the wrong drug to a patient has officially lost her nurse’s license.
Back in December 2017, 75-year-old Charlene Murphy died after Radonda Vaught gave her a fatal dose of Vecuronium Bromide, a drug that causes paralysis, instead of Versed, which treats anxiety.
Vaught was charged with patient abuse and reckless homicide. She was let go from Vanderbilt University Medical Center on January 3, 2018.
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