[ChicagoConservative27]

Not surprising

[SkyDancer]

Done to prevent rioting(?)

[frogjerk]

IMHO: She basically condemned herself by admitting during the shooting she screwed up.

From what I remember from the video was that it seemed that the one officers was trying to cuff the perp and did it so sloppily with some sort of handoff to officer Kim Potter and that is where the perp slipped away.

[MinorityRepublican]

Maybe someone can describe to me "police immunity"? Cops are our there risking their loves everyday as they do their jobs. Unfortunately, accidents happen. So they should get the benefit of the doubt. So Kim Potter should lose the badge. Maybe she should not qualify for her benefits because what she did was serious. But to try her for manslaughter seems to be excessive when she was just doing her job.

This will mean that certain urban areas will become "no-go" zones (escape from New York).

[House Atreides]

It was surprising to me.

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

If she gets covid, she can go home and not have to ever serve time. What’s good for the goose right?

[BitWielder1]

Cops will start to resign in large numbers when they see they can go to jail for doing their jobs.

[bigbob]

Nope. Inevitable.

[higgmeister]

That is what the manslaughter charge is for, unintentional death.   Anyone who makes a accidental mistake directly causing death, still needs to be held in account for it.   That is the way our world works, no more, no less.

[From The Deer Stand]

Ever notice that law-abiding citizens have an extremely tiny percentage of risk in being shot by police, either intentionally or accidentally?

[maddog55]

Daunte Wright would have been dead sooner or later anyway but probably after he killed a few people.

Justice on Daunte Wright was served. Justice for Kim Potter was not. It was an accident, pure and simple.

[Retired Chemist]

Her lawyer said the blame lay with Wright who was struggling with the cops.

[Chewbarkah]

What are the sentencing options for 1st and 2nd degree manslaughter in Minnesota? This seems like a situation where she is indeed guilty of killing the criminal, albeit through panic and incompetence rather than intent. Sentence ought to be mild due to mitigating circumstances (eliminating Daunte Wright prevented an endless chain of victims).

[devere]

I think anything more severe than involuntary manslaughter for her confused mistake doesn’t seem warranted.

[arthurus]

I blame the manufacturer and designer of the taser. It looks and feels like a pistol. She is not the first to make that error.