Mixing up your taser with your handgun

[Anomalocaris]

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.

Yes, and, my understanding is that the warrent was for a misdemeanor. It isn't like they were tracking Ted Bundy.

So she should have waved him on his way merely because he isn’t Ted buddy?

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The warrant was for illegally carrying a firearm....

Pick one side of the street to work, chump..

Which justifies fuck all

It justify making him get out of his car to put him under arrest.   

It justifies using taser to subdue him when he resisted arrest and tried to drive away.    

It does indeed justify fuck literally all of the things that was done on purpose by Kim Potter.