[SaxxonWoods]

I don’t disagree with the decision (I never assume I know more than the jury that sat through the trial), but I hope she gets a light sentence. She’s no danger to society due to this conviction.

Horrible career ending accident. A male cop shot a black guy and killed him the same way a couple of years ago, I never heard how that one came out. Several cops were struggling with the guy, who was on a concrete floor. Cop pulled his pistol thinking it was his taser and shot the guy point blank in the back.

[volunbeer]

I think that was the Oakland transit cop who shot the guy on the ground thinking he had his taser in his hand? It happened in the Carolina’s a few years ago as well and was captured on dashcam video but the subject was not a minority.

[Red Badger]

Was that the case with the elderly police guy?..................

[Navy Patriot]

A male cop shot a black guy and killed him the same way a couple of years ago, I never heard how that one came out.

If it was Oscar Grant in 2009, SF Bart cop Johannes Mehserle was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and served 11 months for mistaking his pistol for a Taser.

[DiogenesLamp]

I don’t disagree with the decision

She did shoot him and I believe it was accidental, but what happens to a civilian that accidentally shoots and kills someone?

I regard this verdict as more plausible than the Arbery verdict or the Chauvin verdict. Those verdicts were just garbage, but this one is reasonable give that she did in fact do this.

I think letting her off with a "not guilty" is just too far. You don't shoot people by accident.

Now given that the piece of sh*t she was fighting with was fighting with her at the time, I would give her a pretty light sentence for what constitutes an accidental killing.

Some of this is his fault for fighting.

[Engedi]

I think it should of just been guilty on 2nd count of manslaughter not both. Hope she gets light sentence.

[ETCM]

If you’re talking about Robert Bates, the 73 year old “Reserve Deputy”, he was convicted of 2nd degree manslaughter and served 497 days. Pretty much the same situation as Potter, he thought he had drawn his taser.

I don’t have a problem with Potter being convicted. Clearly she unjustly killed a man. 1st degree seems a stretch. Hopefully the sentence will be reasonable, rather than an effort to appease BLM.

[L.A.Justice]

Horrible career ending accident. A male cop shot a black guy and killed him the same way a couple of years ago, I never heard how that one came out. Several cops were struggling with the guy, who was on a concrete floor. Cop pulled his pistol thinking it was his taser and shot the guy point blank in the back.

The movie was based on that incident in Oakland...The officer worked for BART...Bay Area Rapid Transit agency...