(April 15, 2021 at 9:37 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:(April 15, 2021 at 6:49 am)Brian37 Wrote: But it doesn't matter. Her mistake cost someone their lives. If I take my eyes off the road while driving, and pop a curb, and kill someone, I can be charged for that death, even if it was an accident.
And it isn't the politically correct thing to say, it is a litteral real reality that blacks and other minorities have far more to fear when getting pulled over than whites. I've been pulled over twice for an expired tag. Neither time was I asked to get out of the car, nor did I fear dying.
The victim in this case had an outstanding warrant for arrest. That seems to be ample justification to require him to get out of his car.
The victim in this case had no real reason to fear dying, which makes his resisting arrest and effectively bolting rather less than defensible. The officer also didn’t seem to have intended to apply force excessive by popular conventional or procedural standards. Again there is no indefensible conduct.
The only tragedy is she grabbed a gun instead of taser, and failed realize the mistake until she triggered what she thought was the taser.
I don’t believe an eye must be answered for by another eye. So I don’t think placating the family or the community should be a concern in how Kim Potter is dealt with.
In so far as she might be charged with any crime, it would be the same crime she would be charged with if, as a licensed driver, one day she nevertheless accidentally shifted her own car into reverse by mistake on her war to shopping and ran over and killed a bystander standing behind her car.
The warrent was not for a violent crime. If you fail to pay your parking tickets and don't show up for court, you can have a warrent issued against you too. I would hardly think that killing someone over traffic tickets is the same as a warrent for Ted Bundy.
