Posted on 04/14/2021 9:22:56 AM PDT by Shadylake
WASHINGTON COUNTY, MN — Former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter, 48, was charged with second-degree manslaughter Wednesday in the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright. Wright, 20, was killed Sunday during a traffic stop.
If convicted, Potter faces up to 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine.
The news was broken by the Star Tribune, which is reporting that Potter will be represented by attorney Earl Gray.
Potter was charged by the Washington County Attorney's Office after the case was handed over from Hennepin County in order to avoid any conflict of interest.
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Makes a great tea, though.
Then that proves black privilege is real. Not a surprise to all of us but a shock if the dimwitted half asleep American TV news watchers ever hear it someday.
How about "Danegeld" in the form of "Three Days of Unsupervised Looting?"
Would that satisfy 'em?
Regards,
Maybe a sly reference to the tea party scene from Alice in Wonderland?
COMPLYIN’ MEANS NOT DYIN’. How come nobody puts any responsibility on the the deceased at all? Fight it in court NOT on the street.
What do you suggest she be charged with?
What she did was manslaughter.
Yes it was a mistake, but she shot and killed someone.
“..20+ years on the force can’t distinguish a pistol from a stun gun is beyond me..”
In situations like this the adrenaline flows; you don’t think you react. I don’t don’t know what her 20+ years experience was, but perhaps it wasn’t on the street. Often a female officer has worked the office or technical jobs but needs street experience to get a promotion. I don’t know, but I do know these traumatic scenes cannot really be properly judged by those who have never such a experienced life or death scenario..
I’m not sure of MN laws. Apparently this is what they use for negligence, which is what is appropriate. I said on other threads that around 10 years of prison is about right.
Agree with you.
Where could she or Chauvin sit for decades in a quiet prison cell?
Cons will torture them to death with two guards (paid off) watching with backs to them. Shame how the video cameras went dead just like with Epstein. At least they’re guaranteed so they’ll get replacements free.
I wonder when one of the accused officers will get killed by a mob before going to prison. That day has to come. Maybe a tiny bit of sympathy from the great unwashed American public. Maybe.
I hate to see a cop go to jail for doing their job, but in this case, that was a major mistake. She deserves a little time, though based on the fact that the victim was scum, I would go with probation.
2-5 clearly won’t apply. The only hope the prosecution has is with subsection (1). Even there, they have a significant problem with the elements:
Culpable negligence is “gross negligence coupled with the element of recklessness. It is intentional conduct which the actor may not intend to be harmful but which an ordinary and reasonably prudent man would recognize as involving a strong probability of injury to others.”
“[T]he statute requires proof of an objective element and a subjective element, the objective element being gross negligence and the subjective element being recklessness in the form of an actual conscious disregard of the risk created by the conduct.”
To establish the subjective element of recklessness, the state is required to prove beyond a reasonable doubt “an actual conscious disregard of the risk created by the conduct.” Id. at 320. In this context, the risk is one of death or great bodily harm. An individual is reckless if he “is aware of the risk and disregards it.”
“Recklessness” and “negligence” may be defined in the following manner:
A person acts “recklessly” when he consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the element of an offense exists or will result from his conduct; the risk must be of such a nature and degree that its disregard involves a gross deviation from the standard of conduct that a law-abiding person would observe in the actor’s situation. A person acts “negligently” when he should be aware of a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the element of an offense exists or will result from his conduct; the risk must be of such a nature and degree that his failure to perceive it involves a gross deviation from the standard of care that a reasonable person would observe in the actor’s situation. The difference between the terms “recklessly” and “negligently,” as thus defined, is one of kind rather than of degree. Each actor creates a risk of harm. The reckless actor is aware of the risk and disregards it; the negligent actor is not aware of the risk but should have been aware of it.
State v. Frost, 342 N.W.2d 317 (1983).
Unless you’ve ever been involved in a tense and threatening traffic stop as a law enforcement officer you’ll never know how quickly things happen, how fast a decision has to be made, and how a reaction can be flawed through fear and excitement.
The only one consciously taking risks was the perp.
We will see similar incidents/accidents in our new military in a few years with our pregnant soldiers and other military misfits from a few years ago after they become quasi soldiers, sailors and marines in name only.
Standards for cops: perfection no mistakes allowed.
Standards for the black community: None.
She screwed up, he did too. But he died and can’t come to justice for fleeing at this point. She screwed up, so this ties up the loose ends.
Also, tasers are not guns. I’m completely perplexed about how this Cop couldn’t tell which weapon they were drawing. Was there no mandatory fire testing for her taser?
Wright used a firearm to commit a crime.
I think she knew that and was influenced by that.
There are many places to stash a pistol in a car.
Was he going for a pistol in the car?
It’s a life or death question.
You have one second to decide.
if I were her, I’d make a quick plea deal...she knew she screwed up....serve two yrs and leave the state, pension in hand....
I don't think so.
If Antifa can burn down entire precincts full of cops and not a soul gets arrested, what's the point of any compliance?
We live in totally lawless days.
Eventually someone will start enforcing basic social order, perhaps some "organization" somewhere can charge money to offer protection around the neighborhood. Seems it has been done before.
I’m the DA would take a plea at this point. I think it’s going to be a matter of how much she has to serve before parole.
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