Kim Potter, the police officer who shot and killed Daunte Wright, is police union president

Taser taser taser to make sure the other cops were out of the way but then pulled the trigger before they were

Ffs, your ongoing defense of this person is whack

Okey dokey then

Especially in MN.

Especially 10 miles from the Chauvin murder and trial.

And most especially in an area rife with police racial profiling, abuse, and slaughter

and have audio that defends them. I've seen that many times with different cops.. so I figure it's widely done.

being an expert in how the law as it applies to these situations works.

She and her husband (it appears from social media posts) are big 'blue line' types. They likely are angry about the Chauvin trial, and in IMO were itching to 'kill a n----r'.

There's no way a veteran cop would mistake a taser (which is made of some plastic type material) to a gun which is heavier and made of metal.

Wright was a black guy who (like Floyd) would not meekly submit to white authority - and thus had to pay.

Police union: "Police can do no wrong."

yeah, advised them on how to get away with murder is more like it.

Watching the video of her shouting "taser taser taser taser!" reminded me of all the recordings of cops screaming "stop resisting stop resisting" when there was no resistance at all. They're just playing to the cameras and/or microphones.

should be loaded onto a server. I doubt the prosecution will spend anytime trying to turn over stones, but I would like to find if there was a prior incident of her shouting taser while holding her sidearm. That would demonstrate duplicitousness at a minimum.

Now she need someone to cover up her lame-ass "policing".

I've seen cops do that many times. I use to protest in Portland.

that long wearing a uniform. Makes no sense.

I am sick of having the media pulling the very best pictures of white people (this picture of her is when she was much younger, I think it was taken over a decade ago). On the other hand they pull the most horrible pictures of black people.

she said she'd enjoyed every minute of being a police officer.

Every minute.

Wright. I hope that line comes back to haunt her.

that she was training a rookie cop when she tased - er, shot dead - Daunte Wright.

I hope the rookie was not taking notes.

Here is a look at the thug heads to police union in Chicago....

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-justice/ct-chicago-police-board-catanzara-new-charges-20210127-pz2nku2tpzaldguxnoian4zbmy-story.html

Unions certainly should protect their members from dangerous conditions of work.

Police unions spend their greatest efforts shielding their members from consequences of criminal acts. Providing a lawyer to an officer charged is certainly within bounds. Arranging by contract rules for investigation of citizen complaints against police which make it easy for officers to tailor stories that 'justify' brutal actions, and coordinate those stories, and insisting only police themselves should have charge of disciplining violent and brutal police --- these are a different kettle of fish indeed.

Peace officers need to be "present" in the moment--each moment, and held to a higher standard of consciousness OJT where oops! isn't an acceptable defense. Yes, at that moment, one can be distracted both by fear and learned hatefulness.

Sooo...this one was educated, well-trained, and "not stupid" enough to say the wrong things...kinda worrisome it could come down to "distracted copping" or "distracted dressing" (in proper uniform by standard positioning of accessories), much like texting or other tasks while driving. Either task is wearing or controlling something that can easily kill for lack of conscious control. Would this person not tested the charge of a taser or failed to load her service revolver each day upon dressing in the uniform of her occupation??? Oops?

Tasers need to be of instantly recognizable bright color and worn at a location, perhaps cross-body, from the easier faster loaded and holstered favored handgun, though there would still be questions of judgment of which to use; of course, bodycams also recording each encounter!

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And have been worn on on opposite sides of Kim Potter's belt/body for 26 years.

Yet we're supposed to believe this highly experienced cop got confused in a "stressful moment" (a misdemeanor arrest no less - not even a violent felon - soooo stressful)

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I read her husband is a retired police firearms instructor

I would have never guessed she was close to that age.

See post 8

I’ve only seen the younger picture of her.

Cops around the world do their jobs without guns. Why not here? Why does every cop have to have a gun? Why not just a few with guns and the rest armed with tasers and other less lethal weapons. And then there's a shotgun you can unlock and use from your car if you really need it.

Overreaction by police too often has tragic consequences.

You all are just as bad as the right.

Unions serve an important purpose, and hold a legal responsibility to the people they represent. Don’t bash her for doing her legal Union responsibility.

Perhaps not in theory, but certainly in practice. Their chief field of endeavor is sheltering their members from the consequences of criminal acts they commit.

is nothing but an organized gang of bullies, usually headed up by the biggest or loudest of the bullies. (Kind of off the subject but maybe not, in a litter of kittens or puppies, the leader is usually the biggest male or the loudest female.....think on that for a minute!)

... the good of the communities.

she decided he would make a run, decided in her mind she would yell taser! taser! but actually meant to shoot him? and then scream oh shi* I shot him? while throwing a 26yr career away. To kill a man she don't know? While Chauvin is being tried a few miles away?

I'm as BLM supporter as it gets, but I'm not buying she purposefully killed that man.

that she mistakenly pulled her service revolver instead of her taser.
A. The service revolver is a Glock 9mm and is to be worn on one hip, while the taser is to be worn on the opposite hip.
B. Any damn fool who has ever touched one knows that there is a difference in heft between a Glock and a taser and can tell the difference in less than the time it takes to yell "Taser, taser, taser!"

She fcuked up, pure and simple. Either she was wearing them on the wrong sides or knew she picked up the wrong one and fired anyway.

Use of deadly force with warrant of the state is one of them.

It doesn't matter if the officer meant to do it or not ---the officer killed a man for no reason worth killing a mouse. Both judgement of need and execution of the act were so faulty as to amount to depraved indifference when death was the result of the gross negligence.

strongly held negative views about POC. In her position of advising other cops facing investigations, she certainly knew what were considered valid defenses. No need to think about it at the moment of confronting Wright. She could have thought in advance about what she would do if faced with the situation of a fleeing suspect. It should have been part of her training, in fact.

It all hinges on her prior attitudes about POC, Blacks in particular. I can easily imagine a white cop joking about what to do if a suspect flees. "Shoot 'em and they don't go anywhere do they? But CYA and yell taser first."

I am NOT saying that there is any evidence of the officer making jokes like that. I am NOT saying that she had prior racist views. Those are things an investigation might want to look into. All I am saying is that it is possible to act in a way, in split seconds, that you have anticipated or thought about in advance due to a.combination of training and prior prejudices.

It does not look good for her, given her experience as a cop and advisor of other cops who have shot peiple. Also consider that the victim was not armed and did not pose any threat to the cops at the scene. As for his prior warrant, if it was for cold blooded murder, I could understand the need to stop him with a taser. But shooting? Death sentences are not up to cops to decide and execute. That's what courts are for.

an extreme overuse of weapons. Even a taser was not necessary. All she needed to do was call in what happened. He could be picked up another time.

This is so disgusting that it is beyond words. A young man is dead because a seasoned cop pulled a gun on him over a misdemeanor.

For one thing, a loaded 9mm weighs more than 3 times as much. Triple is a pretty significant difference, unless you're talking about nanograms. I'm sure you couldn't feel the difference between one nanogram and 1000.