Former police officer Kim Potter was found guilty on two counts of manslaughter by a jury in Minneapolis, Minnesota. After four days of deliberations the jury originally came back with a deadlock. The judge instructed the jury to keep deliberating and try to resolve their differences. The jury came back today and delivered a guilty verdict:
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jurors on Thursday convicted a suburban Minneapolis police officer of two manslaughter charges in the killing of Daunte Wright, a Black motorist she shot during a traffic stop after she said she confused her gun for her Taser.
The mostly white jury deliberated for about four days before finding former Brooklyn Center officer Kim Potter guilty of first-degree and second-degree manslaughter. Potter, 49, faces about seven years in prison on the most serious count under the state’s sentencing guidelines, but prosecutors said they would seek a longer term.
Potter, who testified that she “didn’t want to hurt anybody,” looked down without showing any visible reaction when the verdicts were read.
Potter, who is white, shot and killed the 20-year-old Wright during an April 11 traffic stop in Brooklyn Center as she and other officers were trying to arrest him on an outstanding warrant for a weapons possession charge. The shooting happened at a time of high tension in the area, with former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin standing trial just miles away for the killing of George Floyd. Potter resigned two days later.
Jurors saw video of the shooting that was captured by police body cameras and dashcams. It showed Potter and an officer she was training, Anthony Luckey, pull over Wright for having expired license plate tags and an air freshener hanging from his rear-view mirror. During the stop, Luckey discovered there was a warrant for Wright’s arrest for not appearing in court on the weapons possession charge, and he, Potter and another officer went to take Wright into custody.
Wright obeyed Luckey’s order to get out of his car, but as Luckey tried to handcuff him, Wright pulled away and got back in. As Luckey held onto Wright, Potter said “I’ll tase ya.” The video then shows Potter holding her gun in her right hand and pointing it at Wright. Again, Potter said, “I’ll tase you,” and then two seconds later: “Taser, Taser, Taser.” One second later, she fired a single bullet into Wright’s chest.
“(Expletive)! I just shot him. … I grabbed the wrong (expletive) gun,” Potter said. A minute later, she said: “I’m going to go to prison.”
In sometimes tearful testimony, Potter told jurors that she was “sorry it happened.” (read more)
The judge in this case was/is really weird.
Seeing this level of injustice makes my palms sweaty!
DD
Very true Dan Dale.
Any one still living in a big city that is in a blue state needs to take their family and get out now.
No matter what they need to do to accomplish this or how hard it is they should really give it a shot, no one is safe there.
At least send the kids to grand ma and grand pa or aunties and uncles if possible in a safer environment until the parents can sell up and leave.
This is it!! This is what I keep saying. The whole can not be saved. It can’t!! Escape to enclaves of freedom before it is too late. Libs are drunk with power. They are consumed with it.
Flee like Lot left Sodom, and do not turn back. Whatever you left can be recovered, and if not, you have your body and soul intact.
DD
Powerful and accurate way to phrase it, Dan. This is, God help us🙏, where we have ended up.
The wife and I bailed on the Portland, Oregon metro area two years ago.
While the bulk of the mayhem has stayed in the downtown and northeastern side, it’s
just a matter of time before it starts bleeding out.
Tried to get the rest of my brothers to bail, but they aren’t budging for now.
Couldn’t bail on the state as we just didn’t have the financial means to do so.
That’s what I thought – I lived in the NW hills and was afraid of it bleeding into my neighborhood – and who would do anything about it? Nobody from what I can tell. There were a couple of homeless spotted by our local Starbucks and they were shoo’d away but crime was becoming a problem. I know others who are looking for the exit from the same neighborhood – Forest Heights.
I’m now in a neighborhood NE of Seattle – far enough from the same thing….so far.
Good move. I moved out of a liberal lunatic asylum years ago. I live in a cc state with loads of ex-military including loads of African war vets.
We also live in a very rural area of Colorado.
The Denver metro area and places like Boulder have many problems but rural Colorado is nice and conservative.
Many blue states seem to have safe, conservative rural areas that are lovely places to live.
So far.
Alas the “Red State” we moved to is turning bluer than blue, Arizona. Live in a very Red County but the large metro areas are Commie red and being invaded by illegals by the thousands daily.
Boulder has been a liberal haven for years. No surprise.
I’m up visting my daughter in Chicago from my home in western NC and this place feels like a different planet. Planet Mask. I wish she would leave but she has a good job.
Cant spend money if you are maimed or dead. Go to heyjackass.com to see crime stats.
Injustice?
She killed a man. She killed him because she made a mistake, but he is still dead.
No. She needs to do time on this. I hate saying it but it’s true.
Oops doesn’t cut it when you shoot and kill a person.
That said, I think four years max.
The guy she shot was a human 💩 and he could have totally handled the situation differently and would be alive. Regardless, she did make a mistake and had to pay something.
Agreed.
But that is not the law. The charges Potter was convicted on have specific criteria attached to them and those criteria were not met. Yet she was convicted anyway in a miscarriage of justice. Potter did “make a mistake” but that is not a crime.
She is paying something for it. Her remorse alone is damaging.
Alec Asshoe Baldwin took a life in a much more controlled, regulated and friendly environment.
I wonder if he’ll be sentenced to serve ANY time for killing someone who was just an innocent bystander (and not a lifetime POS with a rap sheet full of violent acts who was resisting arrest).
Agreed. If this is the case we are going, Alec Baldwin should be found guilty of manslaughter.
Excellent point.
I hope he does serve many years. The crime of manslaughter is appropriate.
You don’t justify bad behavior with OTHER bad behavior. Alec Baldwin is irrelevant. His case has nothing to do with a POLICE shooting. Totally different circumstance.
Wrong.
Tell that to Halyna Hutchins. Oh…you can’t…
Actually it does. Baldwin was careless in a matter that was not part of his job. He was not in a threatening position, where as the officer was. Her behavior was not bad, it was a mistake. Did you follow any of the case?
The defendant was charged and convicted of 1st degree Manslaughter. This looks more like revenge than justice.
To my eyes, mistaking your duty pistol for a Taser looks like negligence, not recklessness.
Potter was overcharged as a sop to the angry mob.
Kangaroo courts. Communist Kangaroo’s who are using Blacks to destroy Western Civilization. “Remake America” as Obozo the living puppet of his red diaper baby string pullers phrased it
I’d like MN to secede to Canada. They are as malleable as most Canadians who are still too intent on being “nice” while they watch their liberties trampled on. Also, many descend from the “stiff upper lip” Brits of their Commonwealth, but I feel for the middle of the country in having their votes outweighed by Montreal and Toronto and Vancouver. They’ve the same urban v. the rest of the country we face here.
Perhaps. But she needs to be punished appropriately.
Wrong, again.
She already is for the remorse she feels about the whole thing. The punishment is excessive to the mistake that was made.
Consider this, a firemen or municipal bus driver makes a mistake and kills somebody, do they go to prison? Nope. There is a settlement with the city.
Capitol Police execute a non-threatening protestor, or beat one to death. Prison? Nope. A medal.
One carries a gun the other a firehose. Big difference.
Yet, the victim is still dead.
Again, firemen are not authorized to use deadly force.
But they drive large, heavy vehicles (see SFO Asiana crash, driver crushed victim).
You’re arguing with an ignoramus. Move on.
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Another example might be a surgeon. The surgeon nicks an artery and the patient bleeds out and dies, on what otherwise might be a routine surgery. The surgeon doesn’t get charged with manslaughter because he used a deadly weapon (scalpel) and caused the patient’s death. They get sued civilly and a their malpractice insurance pays out.
If the man had been white, we would never even have heard of his death let alone be going on about it.
Irrelevant.
Prove it.
Irrelevant.. right, kind of like Ashli Babbitt
Black man shoots unarmed white women without warning and he’s a hero. Right… a women who served this country and defended our freedom. Off course nation got it right… we haven’t heard much of her shooting from our own Capital Police. He should be up on charges.
Complete injustice.
What did he do to warrant her pulling a gun/taser, etc. on him?
After that, the rest is an accident.
She should not go to prison for an accident.
From what I read the kid was resisting arrest, refusing to get out of the car and was attempting to drive away. At the same moment the other officer was on the other side of the car reaching in to take the keys.
They other cop was also stopping him from engaging the shift from part into drive. She was going to taser him to stop him from driving away while the other cop was reaching inside the car.
She saw her partner in danger, that is why she reached for her taser but grabbed her gun. I think it was involuntary manslaughter, tops.
This was the same court attorney who convicted Chauvin.
Sorry, Hans, wrong guess.
You pull a trigger you’re responsible for where that bullet goes. If you can’t accept that then leave it in the holster.
So why hasn’t Alec Baldwin been charged? Hmmm?
LOL, unicorns are flying every where in your world. Responsibility seems to be a big word here. Kinda missing from Wright. I guess he is dead wrong now.
Manslaughter. The unjustifiable, inexcusable, and intentional killing of a human being without deliberation, premeditation, and malice. The unlawful killing of a human being without any deliberation, which may be involuntary, in the commission of a lawful act without due caution and circumspection.
Root Cause Analysis suggests to me at least that if Choir Boy Daunte Wright hadn’t had a record of armed robbery, illegal gun possession, battery, fleeing from police, revoked bail, and wasn’t actively resting arrest at the time he was stopped we would still be alive.
Bad police procedure yes. Manslaughter? Hell no!
Pick a better charge then.
She pulled the weapon. She squeezed the trigger. She’s responsible for the outcome.
You think the act was “negligence”? The pulling of weapon to defend her partner had to be made in a thousandth or a second. No time for THOUGHT.
Negligence implies thought.
Every action of this nature requires thought. She had enough time to think while stating, “I’ll taser you! I’ll taser you! Taser, taser, taser!” Bang.
She blew it.
And if He Was a Good Boy Daute hadn’t been a two legged animal NONE of this would have happened now would it?
We don’t justify bad behavior with other bad behavior.
Mind reading. I didn’t justify anything. I simply pointed out his end began with his own bad actions. Resisting arrest seldom has a good outcome.
Actually, there is no thought or reflection involved, it is a reaction, devoid of thought. Similar to pulling your hand away from a hot object that is burning your fingers.
It has to be that way, and the idea is that the reaction will be appropriate and in accord with training.
Well if he would not have resisted there would not have been a bang either. I guess he is dead wrong now because he was responsible for his actions. Natural law won here.
Written by someone who has never had to wear a badge and arrest people who don’t want to go to jail. It’s so easy to judge from a place of ignorance. It was an unfortunate accident. People make mistakes in the heat of the moment. That’s what CIVIL COURTS are for. Prior to the BLM/ANTIFA movements, she never would have been charged. The family would have sued the city and won a large settlement (despite him being the main cause for the shooting in the first place by resisting arrest/outstanding warrants/prior gun and robbery charges). The prison system is to hopefully deter people from committing crimes in the first place and to punish those people who commit crimes against people despite knowing it’s illegal. She didn’t intend to use her gun or kill the suspect. By her being charged and going to jail, how is the community at large safer? In fact, it will be less safe as cops stop doing police work and just let criminals go when they are faced with resistance. More criminals will be walking the streets bringing violence against law abiding citizens. This verdict gave criminals in Minneapolis the key to the city. This is unfortunately another sad day in America when justice does not prevail.
“Written by someone who has never had to wear a badge and arrest people who don’t want to go to jail.”
Written by someone who makes really stupid assumptions based on nothing.
Other than 20 years on the force and being able to imagine myself in her place. It must be nice to be so smug.
So, you’re saying you made a stupid assumption? Looks like it. You weren’t there. Have been a police officer? Have you been in the military and in battle? Have you had bullets coming at you? Have you ever had to subdue a person that really doesn’t want to be subdued? If not, don’t try tell us what is right or wrong. Go walk the walk before you try to baffle with bull crap.
My daughter took me to Spiderman. What a joke. The woke world does not understand what evil is really about.
I agree Palace – obviously whatever training she had was not good enough for her to be on the streets. Put her behind a desk where she can’t hurt anyone.
As the law enforcement job becomes less desirable, expect less desirable applicants, with predictable results.
You mean ‘diversity’ applicants like Officer Luckey? Kim Potter was trying to train Rookie Luckey and only had the chance to corrrect him on mistakes he made before the stop. After the stop he continued to make horrendous mistakes but she couldn’t correct him in front of the suspect. Hope he is never certified to be a police officer as he has had 3 police departments now to learn from and doesn’t seem like he is competent police officer material.
So Joan, where did you get your information that she was not trained to be good enough on the street? Did you follow the trial and hear about her experience or did you just announce someone’s talking point?
She killed a parasite. A career criminal. A dreg of society. Good riddance. I think she deserves a medal.
So does Chauvin.
“Oops” works just fine if the person you shoot is white. See the story of Colorado Good Samaritan Johnny Hurley. Responded to a bad guy who ambushed a police officer, neutralized the shooter preventing a mass shooting and was shot from a distance by police. No charges.
https://www.cpr.org/2021/11/08/olde-town-arvada-police-shooting-no-charges/
It was an accident and the end result was not any different than if she did not have a taser.
It is interesting that the judge is considering a longer sentence than the sentencing guidelines suggest. This in comparison to the Cuban trucker that killed four people in CO.
And different from Mohammed Noor who recently had his 12.5 year sentence reduced to 47 months. Guess we do have a democracy now instead of a Constitutional Republic which we couldn’t keep. The wolves decide what’s for dinner now.
She is paying, and paying dearly for a MISTAKE. She has lost her job where she had many friends. She lost her home and had to move out of state for fear of the BLM/Antifa types burning it down and hunting for her. She and her family will be in debt to pay for her defense for many years to come, if not the rest of their lives. She has lost her peace of mind and is currently in therapy (another expensive cost she has to pay). How much more does she did to pay? Prison is not a good place for a good person, especially a former cop. She will be bullied and attacked. She will always need to be on guard for her life. Not a fair exchange for a case that was not proven beyond a reasonable doubt by the State’s prosecutors.
You get a sense of the politics of these things, was fairly sure it was going to be guilty. Rittenhouse was fortunate he shot white criminals.
Which makes it clear that white people need to avoid blacks. I say this as someone that lives in a majority black neighborhood of a 40 percent black city.
It is clear that white people are not allowed to defend themselves against non-whites and that blacks can commit crimes against them with no consequences.
That’s the truth now – so what is the rational response?
Safari rules. Just like all the destroyed countries in central & Southern Africa after liberal “western” (sarc) communist Democracies were installed.
(racist) Farm Murders
https://www.radiofreesouthafrica.com/farm-murders-censorbugbear-reports/
I think that’s called “Jungle rules or laws” of something like that?
It’s been mentioned around here a few times.
Safari rules.
Flee or submit.
Further proof of your point is the Black-on-Asian Hate Crimes (attacks) which the media buries 100%!
It appears over 80% of the anti-Asian crimes are committed by African Americans.
Total whitewash.
Ever since Obama became president, along with the yapping loud mouth racist voices of Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Maxine Waters, etc., blacks hatred for whites is evident.
Stay away from all of them. Unless they are middle class, they are out to get any white person they can.
That is not racism either; it is the reality. And I live in a western suburb 45 minutes west of Chicago.
Actually, Maxine was blaming the government for getting the black communities hooked on crack cocaine. She was right about that. Check out Bush and Clinton and the role they played in that. Bush 2 and Obama help move things along to the Fentanyl. Checkout Made in America and Kill the Messenger movies or read The Dark Alliance by Gary Webb.
We are here because of the abuses of our Intelligence communities.
Exactly, Oak Brook was just on lock down yesterday. Shooter.. even worse than them running into Louis Vuitton and stealing the place empty. Just sickening……….
The Talk: https://www.takimag.com/article/the_talk_nonblack_version_john_derbyshire/
It got Derb fired from the execrable National Review.
Last summer I was near Myrtle Beach, SC on vacation, but not knowing the area, headed over to the main beach area a couple of days after July 4th and immediately regretted it because I had brought my family to a dangerous place. We walked a bit, rode the Ferris Wheel, and left promptly. We spent the next week well away from the public beaches up in Myrtle-proper. Scroll in on the map until you see the Sky Wheel and you’ll understand what I had unwittingly walked into because I didn’t do my homework: https://crimegrade.org/safest-places-in-myrtle-beach-sc/
Rittenhouse had money and a competent defense. Very few are lucky going against the state and their unlimited resources.
Their unlimited resources are our stolen tax dollars. SOB’s
His defense team was subpar, average at best. Made numerous bad decisions. Rittenhouse is out because the key facts that proved self defense were captured on film. It would have taken criminally incompetent defense to end up at a guilty verdict.
Agreed. KR was saved by citizens journalists.
Rittenhouse didn’t have money. Did you see his mom? no judgement but she looked, and spoke as uneducated as they come. Luckily the defense saw a clear cut case, and people stepped up…That was his luck. Now he is on tour..if I was him, I’d try to be a bit more humble. The kid who had family money was the boy who stood against the native, and the abortion activists. He has remained as humble as they come.
There were loads of video evidence as the FBI was “monitoring” (steering) the riots, plus citizens there. He was very lucky in that regard, and he had great lawyers after he fired his first 2
She had a LOT of money, people donated to his defense.
Only because people like me donated to his defense.
Competent defense or incompetent prosecutor? We can debate that one. I thought the defense was pretty weak.
If Rittenhouse had money why did he have to stay in jail for 82 days while money was raised for his defense? He came from a family with meager means. And if his defense attorneys were so competent why were people on streams hollering “OBJECT” “OBJECT” “OBJECT” during his trial? Earl Grey is one of the very best attorneys in Minnesota. Watching the trial one would have been sure of a swift and unanimous NOT GUILTY, but what was wrong was all the progressives on the jury who needed “justice for the good little boy who was pulled over for having an air freshener on his rear view mirror.” Or so the media story goes. Saddest facts about this case is that Kim Potter wouldn’t even have pulled him over and the mistakes made by the rookie cop she was training led to the attempt of Daunte to flee and her mistake.
Used to be it was no big deal to pay a serious price for incompetence leading to a death.
Today, every verdict is a trial not of the crime, but of the justice system.
Clarification:
1st degree manslaughter requires conscious intent to cause death. I don’t know why this would not just be murder.
2nd degree manslaughter is gross negligence creating a situation of risk of death.
So conviction of 2nd degree manslaughter might be reasonable.
Wonder how Alec Baldwin is taking this verdict.
And the woman Baldwin shot didn’t have a warrant out for her arrest nor was she resisting arrest.
In Minnesota the Felony Murder Rule was just repealed!
Given what you say, and considering that the jury was really split until the very end, I would guess that they concluded that it was more than an accident, more than negligence, and that there was some intent involved, even if colored by confusion, emotion, and the kind of turmoil those types of situations tend to involve. You got to admit, “I grabbed my gun, which is shaped completely different from a Taser, and which is operated differently from one as well, and still decided to point it at him and pull the trigger,” doesn’t exactly pass the straight face test.
Even honest mistakes can be negligent, but nowadays it depends on what category of humanity you are in if an honest mistake will give you the benefit of the doubt.
Yup, just ask Asley Babbitt. At the very least, Officer Byrd should have been charged with 2nd degree manslaughter.
This woman should have never been on the streets with a gun. She was in waaayyy over her head.
Agreed.
The fact that she was training someone is ridiculous.
Can you imagine not being able to distinguish between a revolver and a stun gun? You shouldn’t be a crossing guard with those pathetic skills.
It’s easy to do when you practice drawing handguns most of the time.
Tasers are stupid any way.
Too bad she had a taser. If she didn’t, she probably would not have been charged.
Affirmative action hire?
I guess the Irish cops who would have dropped him with a few blows 50 years ago would be called racist. Never happy.
Hire all-minority urban police, I don’t care.
Diversity is our strength. 🤡
DIEversity destroys NATIONality.
I read she was a police officer for 26 years. She should have retired at 25 years.
She is no shape to be policing anything. Sorry this happened to her but she was the result of affirmative action hiring practices.
I imagine a lot of police with 20 or 25 years in will retire very soon. I can’t see why any of them would want to stay. If one can retire, I don’t know what is holding them back.
Yes, I know the replacements will be absolutely horrible. Just what the psychopath lunatics want. The young brainwashed as police.
I believe that is part of the strategy of why they are doing this. To replace our current Police Force who are majority veterans, White, and Republican. Replace them with non-heritage Americans, less qualified, and more communist in their voting, and more corrupt
Very true Colkitto.
That is why anyone who can needs to flee these big cities in blue states.
If we think they are bad now just wait a few months.
Actually, why was this thug out on the streets. He had already committed enough felonies to be kept behind bars for life.
When a death occurs during the commission of a felony it’s the criminals that is at fault! That’s the Felony Murder Rule. Once again it’s the law that is rewritten for Black criminals!
I have been waiting for Bernie Goetz like people to start becoming active.
Always the same M O.
A criminal out there with warrants, and driving around with expired plates.
Resisting arrest, just like the criminal in Kenosha that didn’t listen to the police.
But the criminal is the victim. Right?
Because in the satanic liberal world, the criminal is the victim, and the victim is the criminal.
At least this creep was a home grown criminal.
Here in the American Southwest these guys are usually illegal aliens.
Some loser from south of the border with no drivers license, no insurance who just hijacked or stole the car the cops are trying to stop them in.
They run like crazy driving the vehicle over a hundred MPH, running red lights and endangering lives.
The chase usually ends with the illegal crashing the vehicle and making a run for it on foot.
If bystanders are lucky no one else gets hurt.
If what you say is true, then why wouldn’t she have washed out years ago?
Probably the town’s demographic changed over the years from White Suburbia to more of the ghetto black like the guy she killed.
Minnesota, PC.
Maybe all the experienced cops left because of mandates?
Did you follow the trial?
Not much different than Alec Baldwin incident—when is he getting arrested?
He’s one of the beautiful people.
Right after his next movie : “How to get away with murder”.
an air freshener hanging from his rear-view mirror?
Leftist hired as a police officer? Reminds me of the commie code enforcer here in commifornia who gave me a warning to remove two small cardboard boxes I had on my front porch.
That bs came from his mother.
Regarding the FTA, the “weapons charge” stemmed from a carjacking.
Expired plates were sufficient cause for the traffic stop.
The warrant for his arrest, when discovered, provoked his resisting, the struggle, and his death.
Dinndonuffin.
And driving a car with expired tags (or tabs as they call them in Minnesota). Once stopped he also had no drivers’ license (never had), no insurance and an outstanding arrest warrant b/c he has run before. That stupid rookie cop (the true diversity hire in this instance) made three bad mistakes and led to the escalating of the incident.
One death but two counts?
Why is this not double jeopardy?
Double Jeopardy is being tried twice for the same crime.
Was Daunte Wright pregnant?
A double conviction sounds like cruel and unusual punishment.
She will be sentenced for the most serious guilty charge, first degree manslaughter. The lesser charge drops out. The jury could -or should-have found her innocent of first degree manslaughter and guilty of second degree manslaughter. Then she would be sentenced for the lesser charge.
Another victim of Wokeism! Interestingly, a Democrat politician in Philadelphia and another in suburban Chicago were both victims of armed carjackings yesterday. It may need to get uglier for these Democrats until they decide to support local law enforcement again.
Meanwhile:
“Court overturns murder conviction of Minnesota Somali cop who shot woman after she called 911”
notice how this time the MSM headline does not go out of their way to highlight the color of the victims skin?
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It’s amazing he saw even a day of jail
The state run media is nothing but woke propaganda.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mall-america-attacker-gets-19-years-throwing-boy-over-railing-n1013156
THE SUBLIMINAL MESSAGE TO BLACKS EVERYWHERE:
If you murder a white, the justice system will do all it can to find you not guilty, and if you get convicted, we’ll bust yo’ ass out da slammer. Now go out and kill more whities.
Does anyone have the statutes to hand? I read them months ago, and came to the conclusion that she would be found guilty of manslaughter in the second degree.
Don’t have what you’re asking for but you may find it over at Legal Insurrection where they cover these trials very closely, with detailed daily reports and commentary.
All sane people should move to rural areas and let these cities burn.
I was born in Minneapolis and I hate visiting there now – it’s no longer Minneapolis and hasn’t been for years.
I wonder. Hubert Humphrey ran for and was elected Mayor of Minneapolis in 1945. He ran as a law and order candidate against organized crime, and won by the biggest margin in city history. Legend has it that, upon taking office, he instructed the Chief to clean up the city, no questions asked. And the Chief did so … and no questions were asked. Humphrey was easily reelected in ’47, and the Minneapolis police department went on to keep organized crime out of a city that had been overrun by it in the 30’s and early 40’s.
So, a city overrun by organized crime 80 years ago is now being overrun by disorganized crime. Chaos will continue to reign until another law and order candidate is elected, and this won’t happen until the voters have had enough. But Minneapolis is a Progressive citadel, so the necessary collective change of mind may take a while.
My Dad still lives there and is staunchly “progressive.”
He’s all in on masks, vaccines, climate change, St. George…
It’s sad to know that your Dad is brainwashed and lives in a dangerous place.
I was on the U of M faculty for 37 years, so witnessed the lunacy up close and personal. Still live in the northern suburbs, and go south via 100 or 169. I wouldn’t dream of using 35W between 36 and 62.
For years, Minneapolis wanted to be a “big city” in the worst way.
Today, that’s precisely what it is: a big city in the worst way.
Wonder how much of the media BLM vitriol played a part in the verdict..
Also, Daunte would be alive today if HE HADN’T RESISTED ARREST.
Resisting arrest seems to be the go to move for a lot of folks these days. For the life of me I just don’t get it. My Mom was a big fan of Live PD. And the take way for me was, don’t run and don’t resist. It’s just going to end up hurting you in the end. Literally.
I have only had one interaction with the police arresting me (Dui, long story I’ll tell some other time.) . I was polite, did as the officer asked and didn’t give him any reason to make either of our night any worse than it had to be.
Totally get it Bad Dog.. but, for Dante… he continues with the same behavior.
…but luckily for the citizens of Minneapolis Duante will continue to vote Democrat for many years to come!
From what I’ve been able to find out, he was a thug. Do thug things, get thug prizes.
Blame yellowstream media for that. They constantly stir up the crap telling blacks the cops are out to get them.
I’m betting it played a very large role. Watching a live stream of the verdict reading, you could hear inside the courtroom, the hollering for justice for Daunte from the courthouse steps outside. During jury selection there was at least one juror dismissed b/c of fear of retaliation from the BLM types. We have lost our Constitutional Republic.
When life is cheap, you decide to run from the police despite numerous previous encounters with law enforcement. If it goes sideways, mom and grandma get a payday the likes they never dreamed of. Bonus: dad finally comes back from buying cigarettes and says good things about you.
this jury just rang the lotto dinner bell for society’s losers.
Sadly, this is the way our society is trending. And as was pointed put below, we are pretty much on our own. While we have a County Sheriff and a Stat Policeman living within two blocks of us, we have no police in our little town.
We’ve been fortunate that even petty theft is nominal here. we did have a murder last winter.
Gentleman got stabbed trying to stop a burglary. The killer was caught and sentenced to life,
because here Oregon our justice system had been defanged by former Governor Kitzhaber (spit, may he burn in hell) who issued an EO suspending all death penalty sentences.
Retired Magistrate here: Back in the late 70’s I was the first female police officer in Delaware, Ohio. To say the least, it was a very interesting experience.
After less than two years, I resigned to go to college and then law school. I entered law enforcement to help people. After several months I realized the people I was trying to help didn’t want to be helped at all; they just wanted to be left alone to create mayhem.
Also, law enforcement officers really can’t do much to protect you. By the time most law enforcement officers get to the scene of the crime, it is too late. So, it is up to you to protect yourself.
My heart goes out to this woman. In the heat of the moment when decisions are made in a split second, it is so easy to make a mistake; one that could haunt you for the rest of your life, like this former officer.
Back in my days as a cop a pair of led lined gloves, a billyclub or a nightstick would have effected the arrest and been so much more fun
Correct!! Personally, I preferred the old hair takedown. Where the head goes, the body usually followed. Pretty dangerous but effective control technique
Yes I had a nightstick, a kettle light (which was very effective) and my weapon. When I left the department tasers were just coming into use in smaller departments like ours. I remember one time I had a drunk in the back seat and he was very effectively kicking out the back screen to get to me. I radioed in and we were met by everyone on duty at that time. It took all 7 of us to get him out of the car and upstairs into the holding tank where we hosed him down to get him to calm down.
Today, we all would have been charged with assault even though his intention was to do me great bodily harm. Oh, those were the days!
Thank you for your service.
I had a veteran officer tell me one time how effective a little chat while walking down a long alley with young man could be. Especially with that heavy, large hand around the youngster’s shoulder. And in some other, rare cases, around the corner, out of sight.
Not right, but effective.
Women have no place being cops or any kind of first responder. The only place they belong is behind a desk or dispatch. Sorry but that’s the truth.
Well, I can tell you this. Whenever anyone needed a back up I went. Unfortunately, we had some officers who were near retirement and you could never depend on them. I also had the reputation of being able to talk people down from their aggravated state; not always, but more often than not. Sometimes brains are better than brawn.
I suppose you are also going to tell me that I had no business going to law school, passing the bar exam, becoming an attorney, starting the first insurance fraud department in the State of Ohio, heading up an insurance fraud department for a health insurance company, having my own law practice and finally becoming a Magistrate. Thankfully, I didn’t heed your advice about what women can and cannot do.
As I’m sure you know, our system of criminal justice consists of four basic components; the police, the prosecutor, the court, and the department of corrections/parole.
Each component must function properly for the system to be effective.
When any single component fails, the entire system fails.
Responsibility for protecting the public doesn’t just fall on the police.
True, the police aren’t omniscient and omnipresent.
They cannot protect us in the way that most people think. (Consider the Public Duty Doctrine)
It is the responsibility of the system as a whole to protect us as a society.
The police are the first step in the process.
They prevent crime through proactive action, like the “Broken Windows” policy, and they begin the process of stopping repeat crime when they identify and apprehend criminals.
From there responsibility passes to the prosecutor and on down the line.
Failure at any point along the way means that the criminal is back out on the street to reoffend.
It’s those opportunities to reoffend that the system is primarily designed to protect against.
Today, each component of the system is under attack by those who wish to destroy our society.
From the “defund the police” movement to radical prosecutors like MN AG Keith Ellison to corrupt judges and prison officials, the system is under assault and failing.
And just look at the result, unjust convictions and rampant crime.
As a retired cop with 29 years of experience and as the former husband of a retired prison warden with 27 years of experience, I’ve watched the system collapsing .
My ex-wife called me recently to discuss the craziness going on within the prison system.
Every component of the system has been infected with it.
Marcia,
My heart aches for her as well, but sorry, she is as dumb as a box of rocks. Pardon me for being long but note the HUGE difference between the two tools. Most pistols (Glock for example) do not have a de-cocking lever, the Taser does. The Taser has a totally different grip, it is MUCH lighter, totally different feel, sight picture. It is worn on the other side of the body. You train totally different with it at the range. If her years of service is over 20, she would have been at the range shooting many, many times. The Taser holster has a totally different release mechanism. The pistol holster normally has at least a 2 step safety release with tilt back action needed. Again, the two holster releases are totally different. The Taser is much easier to draw, the pistol more involved.
“If her years of service is over 20, she would have been at the range shooting many, many times.”
That’s right she would have fired a total of 1,000 rounds in those two decades and little or none of her qualification/requalification would involve firing the Taser.
“You train totally different with it at the range.”
Therein lies the problem.
The prosecutor made pretty much the same argument about the differences between the taser and the Glock and mockingly asked Potter if she knew the difference between her right and her left.
There is a field of study called Human Factors that deals with the psychological and physiological limitations of humans.
In short, the human brain has limits to the amount of incoming stimuli it can process.
Those limits vary from one individual to the next and are impacted by age (she is 49).
When incoming data exceeds that limit mistakes can be made.
Training is designed to help alleviate the load on the decision-making process.
Some people refer to it as “muscle memory.”
I was disappointed that her attorneys didn’t focus more on the differences in training.
I was hoping to hear him ask her how many times she was required to draw, fire, and holster her Glock versus the same thing for the taser.
He barely covered it.
There were two things she said during testimony that I thought were important.
The first was “Taser! Taser! Taser!”
Those words coupled with her reaction after discharging her Glock made it clear that her intention had been to use her taser.
The second important thing she said was when she described seeing the looks of fear on the faces of the other officers who were struggling with the suspect.
I think that she was at that point of cognitive overload (she described it as chaos) that her brain was being forced to deal with two incoming commands; (1) the conscious command to use her taser and (2) a subconscious warning that she may be facing a deadly threat (as perceived in the faces of the other officers).
Do I think she was negligent?
Absolutely.
Do I think she was criminally negligent?
Absolutely not.
A complete travesty.
How so?
She killed a man because she screwed up. That doesn’t come without a price.
She will live with the killing mentally for the remainder of her life.
And you want to put her in prison too?
Yup. I do. And you should, too.
Gee I hope to grow up and be as good as a palace cobra!
Yes, how about being removed from the force? She killed a man because he screwed up.. she reacted incorrectly.
Lesson? Cops don’t need to carry tasers.
Problem solved.
This!
Tasers are stupid.
They are best used to immobilize uncooperative drunks who can then be loaded into a police cruiser.
They are wholly inadequate to the task of subduing violent felons.
Exactly. Or fat resisting women like that girl who shot the cop from her Camaro. He tasered the crap out of her and she still shot him.
I worked for one of the largest state police agencies in the country and fortunately carrying a taser was optional.
Most troopers declined to carry them.
However, Everyone was forced to undergo the training.
They started issuing them to our road patrols shortly before I was assigned to the BCI.
They wanted me to carry one but I refused.
First, it’s one more piece of expensive equipment that I’d be accountable for and it involved extra paperwork.
Second, they are not reliable.
Third, I was worried about the potential for a mistake, like happened in this case.
Expired license plate tags, an outstanding warrant for his arrest, resisting an officer.
Imagine, “Yes sir, no sir; yes ma’am, no ma’am.” Every one of them would be sleeping in their beds tonight.
When I was Dante’s age… I showed the police a little more respect. I certainly didn’t go waving a gun around, nor have pot or drugs on me or in the car… or try and resist the police. My guess is… when I was at that age (or any age), I had to take a little ownership for my own actions. So, what’s changed?
Dante walks off into the life he creates and Kim Potter’s life is over.
Such injustice.
Injustice?
So he deserved to be shot and killed and she deserves to walk. Got it.
Smh.
Basically, yes! Under the Felony Murder Rule he caused his own death!
Lol. Okay then.
Palace…. no one deserves it. Neither one of them… he moves on to an eternal destiny and Kim Potter is behind bars. Yes, such injustice. Dante with his smart ass behavior created the dynamics. He caused the entire situation. I don’t think sitting behind bars is “she deserves to walk”.
There are consequences to actions…. it is without a doubt if he would have shown some respect he’d be alive today.
So yes, such injustice.
And she would be home with her family where she belongs. She is not a criminal. I think we need to remember what prisons are to be used for. She spent many of her years on the police force doing good deeds. Whereas Daunte, spent his young years breaking laws and terrorizing other people. An injustice has been done.
It is worth noticing that while the Old Testament law demands the death penalty for certain transgressions that it nevertheless had very strict guidelines when it comes to murder. When someone was accidentally killed the responsible person was not given the death penalty or imprisonment but sentenced to a kind of “exile” in a city of refuge. As it was impossible to read the mind of the responsible person, that person’s life would not be taken. It was important to uphold both justice and the sanctity of life.
Based on that they still suffered punishment.
Any family member of the dead man could execute the “exile” if he ever left the city, so it usually entailed a lengthy sentence.
With the inauguration of a new High Priest, the sentence was commuted and the guilty party set at liberty.
Admittedly, this would be a more merciful system than we are using but finding a High Priest of Aaronic lineage make the concept problematic.
There is a reason we would carry our Taser on one side of the hip and the Glock on the other…
This woman is not a threat to society.
What good will locking her up do?
None. But a suspended sentence/reasonable leniency might invite havoc due to the protected class of the victim.
Justine Damond’s killer had his conviction overturned, but skin tones were reversed in that case. Ashli Babbitt’s killer is revered by the left, but that’s way more politics than race games.
(Alec, Mohammed and Mike are all out there, so watch yer six, white chix.)
Mohammed Noor was sentenced to 12 1/2 years. His sentence was shortened to 4 years and 9 months.
Sends a message to others lest they think they can pull the same stunt.
You’ve been popping up all over this discussion and I suspect for a specific reason.
“Sends a message to others lest they think they can pull the same stunt.”
So, you believe this officer was “pulling a stunt”?
I’m guessing his attitude led to repeatedly getting his ass kicked.
I think some prison time was needed. Just saying “I’m sorry” and “Whoopsie” doesn’t cut it. But its obvious we have two systems of justice. Ashli Babbit’s killer serves no time, and get applauded for his “Courage”. this poor woman made an honest mistake and goes to jail. Interesting how the MSM constantly reminds of the cop is white, the victim black. More stirring up of racial bad feelings. They are never held accountable for the blowback.
Also, as of today, Alec Baldwin hasn’t been charged with the killing of his DP.
If your a police officer get out now……WHATEVER they pay you cannot be worth this type of risk……. leave them to their own cesspits………
Exactly. The riff raff that lives in our cities isn’t worth your time let alone your life.
Very true “davewayve”.
If you are a police officer in a big city in a blue state get out now.
Every cop working under those conditions has just had their jobs made more difficult and it is now not worth the trouble of trying to make a loser obey the law or trying to make idiots comply with any cops orders.
I have family and friends who were LEOs in southern AZ near retirement and they admitted if they saw a vehicle that was being driven by a hispanic that ran a stop sign or broke the law in any other way they just let it go because it was not worth trying to chase the vehicle down, and arrest the offender.
So many of the hispanic offenders were illegals who had no license, no insurance and trying to prosecute them was a nightmare so the cops just let them do what ever.
Especially the older cops near retirement.
And a lot of these officers were hispanic themselves.
12 ignorant morons destroy this officers life in support of a criminal who was too stupid to know when to put his hands up.
I agree; what a travesty. He attorney must have been a dumb F.
Succinct. Bravo!
Another travesty of justice.
I agree with some comments that the shooting was the result of gross incompetence, but if it gets to the point that LEO’s are putting cuffs on you and you make the decision to physically resist…..well, your competence level is kinda low as well.
Calling them LEOs is part of the problem. We USED to call them PEACE Officers.
Understood, however their job has morphed far beyond just keeping the peace. They deal with the scum of the earth on a daily basis, people that have no regard for the rule of law, people that view them as the enemy thanks to the liberal media in large part. And when they inadvertently interface with law bidding citizens, with no wants or warrants, that aren’t high on drugs or armed….well, I suggest that is not normal for them. Out of necessity they must approach every situation like their lives are in danger because they are. Until you have faced a drug crazed animal that will not submit to lawful orders…peacefully, let me just say that to generalize the police, whatever you want to call them, as “part of the problem is nuts. The only thing standing between you and the evil in the cities are those men and women in blue, that put their lives on the line to protect you. Our system of justice is up side down and our streets are filled with criminals that have trained for an entire lifetime to be criminals and to prey on the weak. Again, while there are without question bad cops, they are not the problem, the problem is societies attitude toward treatment of criminals. Jail used to be punishment, not it’s just a place for these thugs to catch their breath and hone their skills.
Every Cop should quit. You are next. These animals that get released on purpose get what they deserve. Play stupid games win stupid prizes
Does the family of the “black motorist” now hit the jackpot with a financial settlement?
Daunte Wright assaulted a number of people and actually shot one person in the head; this young man remains a vegetable. Wright’s estate has no less than three civil suits filed against it now, so potentially any settlement with the city could be used to settle the other suits. He was an asshole.
Honestly, I feel bad about the whole thing. Cops are forced into this non lethal shiite. All things considered, the suspect should have been shot and that’s that! However, having been forced into that non lethal alternative, it is the duty of every LEO to train train train. They don’t. They don’t train with their service weapons either. The most rounds fired in their careers, in many cases, are those in their Academy training. That accounts for the incredibly high miss rate at 7-10 feet….
Look, the cops have a hard job, and it seems that so many on the left are anti police. The least they could do is prepare for the combat they will face in the field. If they can’t, they should do something else for a living.
Don’t care how that sounds. It is the truth.
You are absolutely correct! I had a good friend who was a police officer for 25 years and the only time she ever shot was the one time of year when she needed to qualify, which she barely did most of the time…
Look, she killed someone who likely was going to wind up there any way, but “Oops” is not a pass.
When I strap on a jet airplane with dozens of people in the back I’m responsible for everything that happens. Strapping on a handgun is perhaps even more serious because you’re given enhanced authority with the use of deadly force behind it.
She screwed up. It was not intentional. But a REASONABLE (not punitive) price has to be paid regardless.
But let’s step back and look at the entire situation….. Had this criminal not resisted being hand-cuffed, jump back in to the car and try to drive away with another officer hanging half-inside the car, then none of this would have happened. Cause and effect…. Where is the burden of responsibility on the criminal for starting and instigating everything? I didn’t see the female officer approach the stopped car with the gun drawn, or displaying any hostile demeanor.. things only went sideways when the criminal refused to comply and escalated the situation to deadly trying to drive away with an officer stuck half inside the car! Should the female officer suffer some kind of a discipline/penalty? Ofcourse… but this whole thing is BS… God only knows why anyone would want to be a cop in a liberal state….
She’s trained and has the backing of lawful authority behind it.
If you can’t handle these kind of decisions under pressure you shouldn’t wear a badge. Go teach daycare.
No discipline and no penalty.
“Had this criminal not resisted being hand-cuffed,..”
Had the cops not screwed up the handcuff proceedings, Potter would not be facing a lengthy prison sentence.
Two burley men cannot subdue a skinny punk resulting in one unnecessary death and a fellow officer losing her freedom.
Bungled and botched; botched and bungled.
Probably afraid of “excessive use of force charge”. See how this works?
The only price you might pay is being the first one killed in a nose dive.
I can kill plenty of people in a plane crash and still survive. Just because I’m first to the crash site doesn’t mean I won’t walk away when others don’t.
Doesn’t mean you will either.
I’m glad I don’t ride in back anymore.
You of all people ought to understand hours of boredom – seconds of terror.
If you are a white, Hispanic, or Asian cop, it’s time you realize that you can’t respond to calls in black neighborhoods or arrest black people. There’s no reason to risk you and your families lives for people who hate you.
See Baltimore – cops there (including black cops) stopped all kinds of policing after the Freddie Gray travesty.
“We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm” What this does is further tie hands of law enforcement and further entice the criminals, & communists to commit violence, and break laws. This is all planned by the organization that crosses, ethnic,religious,cultural, & national boundaries, and many of their members are in positions of power. This is intentional and this case is a part of it.
Terrible verdict for this officer. No intent to kill him her intent was just to tase the criminal. Wasnt a fellow police officer at the scene in danger, hanging out of the passenger window half in and out and the perb was try to drive off. She had a split second to stop the perp and save her fellow officer. I dont get it. Whites in MN are miserable people. Let the state burn. If she shot a MAGA hat wearing white dude, you bet she would be walking free tonight.
She would have been better off just shoot him and argue she was protecting another officer.
Brutal honest truth time… Police are absolutely under attack in our country these days and the expectations and restrictions placed upon them are dangerous to them individually and to society as a whole!
However, excusing the actions of this officer will not help the cause of getting people to respect and trust the police again.
There is a reason that the gun is always worn on the dominant hip and the taser is always worn on the non-dominant thigh… And EVERY officer on the streets today needs to be well trained in the use of both or they should not be on patrol!
I do not care if an officer is male or female, black or white, but I do care that they be well-versed in the tools of their trade and be prepared to handle high adrenaline situations! The arresting officer absolutely screwed up by letting Daunte Wright get back into the car and Kim Potter, as the senior officer, exacerbated the situation and ended up making a fatal mistake.
Right, a mistake; not one to go to prison for.
who would ever want to serve and protect again?
There was gross incompetence marking every element of this arrest, trial and conviction.
Potter’s issue-equipment taser does not readily lend itself to differentiation from her Glock pistol.
Potter ought to be warming a seat in a desk job. Putting her on the street to capture and subdue violent criminals is inappropriate for a “baby-talking” grandma.
As is not uncommon these days, the trial judge failed to properly instruct the jury concerning the relevant laws.
The defense attorney botched his closing argument.
The prosecutor will be seeking Blakely sentencing enhancement because Potter is a cop, much like happened to Officer Chauvin.
Minneapolis is going to feature risk averse cops going forward because the prison time they face will outweigh any possible wage benefits they can gain.
Democrats ruin everything they oversee.
And Michael Byrd gets interviews on 60 Minutes.
Meanwhile Michael Byrd was never charged with intentionally killing Ashli Babbitt.
FBI agent Richard Trask gets two freaking days in jail + court costs for beating his wife.
Two tiers of justice – one for Deep State and one for everybody else. This cannot be allowed to continue.
Yup, so criminals can literally be holding a gun and point it at a cop and if the cop shoots and kills the criminal all the liberal dumb-asses claim that the criminal didn’t have to be shot/die…. but shooting a lone 90lb un-armed woman climbing through a hallway window is a good shoot….. Liberal Logic at it’s best… smdh
Among other things that’s because privileged Byrd is black and Babbitt was white.
And therein lies the problem. Justice is not applied equally, as you say. I could not agree more!
That level of incompetence requires some kind of penalty. I generally see street level officers that have their taser on their weak side (cross draw) or lower on their leg/below their sidearm. Any amount of awareness and practice should eliminate an error in grabbing the wrong one. Was there no visual or tactile confirmation of the weapon? Do they not have a different retention system (honestly don’t know) but if they do not then changes need to be made. As a peace officer I used a department issued retention holster that required two separate retentions to be overcome in order to draw my sidearm. I never used a taser but I would imagine that the weight, feel, and color would be different. I have a gut feeling that this officer was not up to the job. Sad for all parties.
In my opinion she was liable. She should have known the difference. Byrd is guilty too as far as im concerned and he should have been tried but that’s not going to happen.
The level of incompetence of this former officer is really hard to understand or comprehend. And a great deal of her incompetence falls directly on, (comes from), her police department for its apparent substandard training. This emotion is coming from my 25 years in law enforcement.
Having said that, what she did, in my mind, did not meet the elements of either Minnesota law regarding manslaughter in the first or second degree. I read, and believe I understand, both statutes. My guess is she has a good shot at an appeal to vacate the verdict.
She never should have been charged. This verdict was a defense against riots.
Another sacrificial lamb on the alter of appeasement.
Not a big fan of Ann Coulter, but this is an excellent piece:
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2021/12/22/ann-coulter-the-daunte-wright-nyt-readers-dont-know/
Kim Potter doesn’t deserve a manslaughter conviction but TBT someone is dead because she screwed up. The question is… what SHOULD her penalty be?
It should have been a civil case.
If I were a police officer today, I would quit. Why ruin your life for this street scum?
She was overcharged; the First Degree statute clearly doesn’t apply to her. But that is the political punishment. At most, she committed Second Degree manslaughter, but even that is I think over charging. I would just charge negligent homicide like an auto accident.
White people, especially white people who are cops, can not smite black people, no matter what the cause. It is like the Royalist system of old where members of the low (peasant) class could not smite members of the Royalist (the privileged) cast, no matter what the cause. We have gone back to medieval times, just with a different cast of privileged characters.
Of course, black people can smite other black people, something they do in American cities about every 5 minutes, and no one much cares.
Decent policewoman who made a mistake in a highly adrenalized struggle goes to jail because punk perpetrator wanted to jackrabbit
that’s my summary
Yeah, jury wanted to handle the gun and taser because “they don’t feel the same at all, how could she mistake them”
and having little clue about the adrenalized struggle
the brain “walls off” some of the senses during crisis
the example I’ve experienced is in traffic with music on the dash player
if traffic starts to clog up ahead of me, I start focusing on it, preparing to brake, avoid a potential collision, etc
when the traffic lets up again, I realize I haven’t heard the last verse in the song …. not a fragment, not a glimmer
my mind concentrated on the traffic and walled off my sense of hearing, at least as it pertained to the music
Our bodies have not yet adjusted to modern civilisation.
When adrenalised, circulation to the periphery (like hands) is shunted to other areas of the body; major muscle groups like arms and legs, to sensory organs to increase input of our surroundings (hearing and sight are ‘enhanced’) etc.
Back in hunter gatherer days, decreased sensation in hands and feet, while engaging with a deadly animal was no detriment, as the main weopon was a spear which didn’t require fine muscle control, etc.
In fact, the possiblility of cut hands was fairly high, so numbness and decreased circulation probably good.
Not so with modern weaponry, and most who have been involved in defensive shooting incidents, including police and military, say its like trying to operate a gun while wearing thick gloves.
Manslaughter, yes. Not sure first degree was appropriate, as no malice was involved.
Still, with that barstud D.C. Cop who shot Ashley getting a comendation, it sticks in the craw.
Yup, people who have NEVER been there should not be the ones making the call. As they are not able to understand the under pressure reaction
As if that is how the human brain responds to a flight or fight struggle.
Are you ridiculing, howard? Is that sarcasm?
I gave one nominal example of how the brain walls out sensory input from my own experience
Next time I’m in a “flight or fight” struggle, I’ll report back with my new findings
But the greater and more serious the crisis, the greater the ‘walling out’ I’d expect there to be
YMMV
Maybe some Treepers here have been thru such crises and can comment with their experiences
Some cops are just COWARDS !!! I’m NOT saying THAT in this case, but have Seen it before.
They think a Badge IS a ‘license to Kill’ …
Just Think about it.
Still too traumatic for me to talk/type about.
Just like that we all go tribal. Not sure why anyone would be a cop these days.
Saw a guy in an airport who was obviously a sailor of yachts, so we started talking boats. Good guy. Turns out he was a VP of a yacht company who was on a call with a billionaire cuz he liked this guy and was willing to pay extra for his time. Turns out he was a former cop who retired because he could see the writing on the wall and got out while he could. Will always remember that conversation, cuz we’re seeing it now.
I say the same thing but today I find myself saying: why would anyone join the military, why would anyone become a college professor, why would anyone want to be a doctor when the state dictates all treatment, why would anyone live in a big city. I’m running out of options fast.
Yep, the smartest thing we can do now is just STAY AWAY FROM THEM. Avoid blacks at all costs. Reminds me of that old Chinese proverb: Around blacks? Never relax.
Avoid generalizing and stereotyping people of other skin tones at all costs.
oh nonsense
hunter-gatherers learned to avoid snakes unless they knew it was a type they could kill and eat with no risk to themselves
were all snakes venomous?
no – but avoiding snakes helped them to avoid dying from snakebite
that’s a generalization
a perfectly useful one, in fact
West Texas has annual rattlesnake hunts that some local connoisseurs compare to greasy chicken…
There’s a massive war coming that will touch the lives of every single American. You can pretend we live in Fairyland if you want but the rest of us want to live through this. My brother shares my skin color. He fights for the same thing I fight for. We are in the same struggle. America was built by Whites, is maintained by the same, and will be rebuilt by the same.
We’ve had these damn city-destroying riots since the 60s and still you make excuses for them. What is it that blinds your eyes to the events that happen every single day? Chicago is a shooting gallery every weekend. Name the White community where that happens. Name that community.
Yes I see parallels with South Africa
I disagree with Pete, nuff said.
However, its easy to see why LE would be extremely uneasy on any calls involving POC, the “Ferguson effect” which of coarse harms “communities of color” the most.
yep, be slow enough to arrive that events play out as they will
then arrive to take notes about the scene while the ambulance is in transit
Have 2 black cop friends,both agreed that they would rather deal with white than blacks, as cops.
Almost every call in these Democrat cities involves POC!
Hence, some are referring what we have now as “neofeudalism”, which actually isn’t bad.
Most all other terms “Conmunism, Fascism” etc get caught up in the fake distinctions or differences between the fake ideologies adherents profess to believe.
Such ideological b.s. is a part of the con, like the streetpatter of the streetcon pulling 3 card monte, it distracts the punters, while they are being fleeced.
Conmunism, Fascism, collectivism, globalism it all comes down to justification for a small group of people to hold power over everyone else, and to wield that power to secure their position, and to accrue wealth and priviledge to themselves, and f*ck everybody else.
So yes, neo-feudalism is a new aristocracy, same as the old aristocracy, and we are the peasants, armed with 12 guage pitchforks.
this was a case of involuntary manslaughter no matter what you want to say on the matter….even the commie Ellison states she is displaying remorse so seeking a sentence longer than the maximum is just racial spite by a Negroid racial victim purveyor
If the perp had shot her, he’ld be out on $100 bail. Welcome to the Minnesota asylum.
A “Minneapolis jury” is all one needs to know here. Sooooooo predictable.
Minnestan is only fit for muslime now. No one in their right mind would step foot in it.
Minnesota…The Land of 10,000 Shaikhs 🙂
Bingo. And if the roles were reversed, well, Ashli Babbitt comes to mind.
Not Guilty=riots, property damage, businesses ransacked.
Guilty= Possibly avoid riots, property damage, and businesses being ransacked.
Celebratory.
Social Extortion
And the jury plus anyone in the courtroom could hear the potential rioters as they gathered and shouted their demands from the courthouse steps. Someone called together those would-be rioters and told them what was needed and how much they’d be paid. That someone needs to be found and jailed. There were some on that jury that changed their minds about Kim Potter’s guilt/innocence once those rioters gathered. I am sure of it.