Posted on 04/16/2021 5:46:58 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Within an hour of each other, charging decisions in two lethal police shootings were announced with strikingly different conclusions. The decisions reached in the shootings of Daunte Wright in Minnesota and Ashli Babbitt in Washington highlight concerns over the political and legal elements that can influence such decisions. The timing of the two decisions that involved two chaotic situations raises questions why charges were filed in Minnesota, but not in Washington.
In the Minnesota shooting, police were attempting to arrest Wright who, after a traffic stop, was found to have an outstanding warrant for fleeing police with an unlicensed firearm. Wright broke free of officers while he was being handcuffed and jumped back into the car to drive away. Kim Potter decided to deploy her stun gun against Wright, which would likely be viewed as a reasonable level of force in that circumstance. However, in the struggle, Potter grabbed her service weapon rather than her Taser. In the video, the officer is heard yelling “taser, taser, taser” before she swears and says, “Holy S**t I just shot him.”
Weapon confusion cases
The case has tragically familiar elements as a “weapon confusion” case. There are so many such weapon-confusion cases that departments have tried a variety of solutions, from adding special training to new designs for stun guns. The problem is such training can be lost to the fog and frenzy of the violent scene.
The case is similar to what happened in 2009, when Bay Area Rapid Transit officers struggled with Oscar Grant to arrest him. With Grant on the ground, BART officer Johannes Mehserle warned he was about to use a Taser but then grabbed his service weapon and fired a fatal round into Grant’s back.
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Why is this Sports News?
Maybe that is the only place you can post an article that points out some truths. I bet it will not be there long.
Babbit was set up.
Framed.
No warning.
Black Shooter WELL COIFFD tied to Obama and Mikey.
No warning.
Shot and then hidden.
Then protected.
Then the murder ignored.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE.
Conservatives will be executed instead.
It is open season on conservatives.
The word “Yahoo” says it all. CNN level reporting. Sorry, but I’ll give it a great big ignore.
Law Schools (a wing of the Democrat Party) have intentionally established two separate justice systems in this country. One for us, and one for them.
So much for equal justice.
“Why is this Sports News?”
To bury the article, maybe? I can’t think of any other reason why a Turley article would be in the sports section.
Equal justice died decades ago when we stopped holding anyone responsible for gov't failures. That led to selective gov't failures. That led to only failures by conservatives.
What’s the difference?
One advances the Leftist narrative, the other doesn’t.
Never seen a case where the state will not identify the officer involved.
Did you bother to read the article? Jonathan Turley is so far the only person who has addressed this matter in the MSM ... and he says that the curious decision not to charge the shooter of Babbitt or identify the shooter raises many questions.
“What’s the difference between the Wright and Babbitt shootings?”
There’s a Wright way...and there’s a wrong way to do it.
Yahoo News, written by yahooos.
Yes- surprisingly good article for Yahoo. Worth the read.
One gets 24/7 media coverage defending the criminal, the other gets no media coverage.
Babbitt was murder. Wright was self-defense.
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