Simple question about Potter
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Personally, I wish people would understand that bad shit happens when you resist arrest. It doesn’t matter what your skin color is. Once we recognize that, we can begin the other conversations.
@lufins-dad said in Simple question about Potter:
Personally, I wish people would understand that bad shit happens when you resist arrest. It doesn’t matter what your skin color is. Once we recognize that, we can begin the other conversations.
I agree.
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@lufins-dad said in Simple question about Potter:
Personally, I wish people would understand that bad shit happens when you resist arrest. It doesn’t matter what your skin color is. Once we recognize that, we can begin the other conversations.
I agree.
@renauda said in Simple question about Potter:
@lufins-dad said in Simple question about Potter:
Personally, I wish people would understand that bad shit happens when you resist arrest. It doesn’t matter what your skin color is. Once we recognize that, we can begin the other conversations.
I agree.
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@renauda said in Simple question about Potter:
@lufins-dad said in Simple question about Potter:
Personally, I wish people would understand that bad shit happens when you resist arrest. It doesn’t matter what your skin color is. Once we recognize that, we can begin the other conversations.
I agree.
Agree@taiwan_girl said in Simple question about Potter:
@renauda said in Simple question about Potter:
@lufins-dad said in Simple question about Potter:
Personally, I wish people would understand that bad shit happens when you resist arrest. It doesn’t matter what your skin color is. Once we recognize that, we can begin the other conversations.
I agree.
AgreeSure, everybody agrees. The public discussion in America isn't whether you agree with that, it's whether you will accept it as a legitimate point of view, accept it as an ok thing to say out loud in the public discussion, or shame the utterance as racist. Exclude it from the discussion because it's what bad people think and say. Those are the two sides of this as the cultural discussion goes. It's not about whether the conservative view is rational. It's whether it should be allowed into the discussion, or marginalized as evil. The left takes the latter view.
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The former police officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright during a traffic stop was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday, far less than the standard of about seven years for manslaughter, after a judge said leniency was warranted because the officer had meant to fire her Taser and not her gun.
Jurors convicted the former officer, Kimberly Potter, on two counts of manslaughter in December. They found that she had acted recklessly when she fired a bullet into Mr. Wright’s chest after warning that she was going to stun him and yelling: “Taser! Taser! Taser!”
Ms. Potter, a 49-year-old white woman who served on the police force in Brooklyn Center, Minn., resigned two days after the shooting in April, during a time of chaotic protests over the killing of Mr. Wright, a 20-year-old Black man. She has been imprisoned since the guilty verdict on Dec. 23.
Judge Regina M. Chu sentenced Ms. Potter on only the most serious count, first-degree manslaughter, in accordance with Minnesota law. The state’s sentencing guidelines list the felony count as having a presumptive punishment of a little more than seven years in prison, though the maximum penalty is 15 years. Judge Chu said the case was far different from most manslaughter cases, as well as from other high-profile police killings.
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If I heard the judge correctly, she'll do 18 months, with another 6 months house arrest and then parole.
But I could be totally wrong.
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If I heard the judge correctly, she'll do 18 months, with another 6 months house arrest and then parole.
But I could be totally wrong.
@Jolly said in Simple question about Potter:
If I heard the judge correctly, she'll do 18 months, with another 6 months house arrest and then parole.
And what kind of life can she live afterward? Can she ever find a job?
ETA:
Judge Regina Chu handed down the sentence in a Minneapolis courtroom over the objection of prosecutors after the former officer apologized to the victim's family. Potter will serve 16 months in prison followed by eight months of supervised release.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@Jolly said in Simple question about Potter:
If I heard the judge correctly, she'll do 18 months, with another 6 months house arrest and then parole.
And what kind of life can she live afterward? Can she ever find a job?
ETA:
Judge Regina Chu handed down the sentence in a Minneapolis courtroom over the objection of prosecutors after the former officer apologized to the victim's family. Potter will serve 16 months in prison followed by eight months of supervised release.
@George-K said in Simple question about Potter:
@Jolly said in Simple question about Potter:
If I heard the judge correctly, she'll do 18 months, with another 6 months house arrest and then parole.
And what kind of life can she live afterward? Can she ever find a job?
ETA:
Judge Regina Chu handed down the sentence in a Minneapolis courtroom over the objection of prosecutors after the former officer apologized to the victim's family. Potter will serve 16 months in prison followed by eight months of supervised release.
She can, but it won't be in law enforcement or anything where a felony conviction bars employment.
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I’m glad at least the judge significantly knocked down from the typical 80+ sentence to the 18-24 sentence. The judge’s speech after was good, she made it clear that Potter didn’t intend to do any harm and they police officers risk their lives daily and have to act in a split second during evolving scenarios.
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@Jolly said in Simple question about Potter:
If I heard the judge correctly, she'll do 18 months, with another 6 months house arrest and then parole.
And what kind of life can she live afterward? Can she ever find a job?
ETA:
Judge Regina Chu handed down the sentence in a Minneapolis courtroom over the objection of prosecutors after the former officer apologized to the victim's family. Potter will serve 16 months in prison followed by eight months of supervised release.
@George-K said in Simple question about Potter:
And what kind of life can she live afterward?
Better than his.
I once made the comment to a Cape Cod resident that Chappaquiddick ruined Teddy Kennedy's career. He replied that it didn't do hers much good either.
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C'mon, Phibes. Unlike Mary Jo, this guy put himself in a position where bodily harm was extremely likely. I have very little sympathy for him.
@Mik said in Simple question about Potter:
C'mon, Phibes. Unlike Mary Jo, this guy put himself in a position where bodily harm was extremely likely. I have very little sympathy for him.
I have sympathy for both of them, TBH - as in, both the cop and the perp
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It still goes back to the question of the purpose of prison? Rehabilitation? Reform? To remove a public threat? Punishment?
This woman does not need rehabilitation, does not need to be reformed, and is not a public threat. That leaves punishment. Okay, I can deal with punishment, but do any of you think that her prison sentence is going to be anything like a normal sentence? I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s dead in a month.
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I definitively wouldn't put her in GenPop. If they count the time she's already spent in jail, she's looking at what? Twelve months?
They might can keep her housed in a county jail for that long. Its done with state prisoners down here all the time. Or maybe they have a women's prison that's not max security and houses less violent offenders.
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Former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter, who accidentally killed Daunte Wright when she mistook her firearm for a stun gun during a traffic stop, is set to be released from prison Monday, records show.
Potter, 50, has served 16 months at the Shakopee Minnesota Correctional Facility and will serve another eight months on supervised release.
A shocking new booking photo shows the former Brooklyn Center police officer's deterioration behind bars.
Potter, a 26-year veteran, had a spotless record when the tragic mistake ruined her career and cost Wright his life.
The deadly confrontation unfolded April 11, 2021, after Wright, 20, was pulled over for expired license tags in Brooklyn Center — about 15 miles from where George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis in 2020.
It turned out Wright had an open arrest warrant for failure to appear on a weapons charge. When Potter tried to arrest him, she believed he was attempting to flee and mistakenly drew her firearm instead of her stun gun.
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Almost like those pictures of people who do drugs. She looks like she aged about 20 years.
