The Kim Potter Trial: should she go to prison?

Irwin said:
Now that she's been found guilty, what should be the punishment for her gross incompetence?

Personally, I don't believe she had any malicious intentions, whatsoever. She was just afraid and not thinking clearly while trying to get an extremely dangerous situation under control. I wouldn't give her more than a year.
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Probably 6-8 years.

Afraid and not thinking clearly? She definitely wasn't thinking clearly to place another officer and the passenger in the vehicle in danger, when she fired the shot into the vehicle, that killed Duante. It was testified to, that her spent casing hit her fellow officer in the face too when ejected from her firearm..

Potter was a field training officer...this killing should provide an opening for addressing how officers are trained, and how they are held accountable when that training fails. And, IMO, the rookies she trained, should be re-trained.
 

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Ruthanne said:
In my city cops will stop anyone for expired tags or anything. "Whites" don't get away with all you think. I was stopped for turning about 100 feet in front of a cruiser. I didn't break the law-I was legal. I was given a total interrogation on the street. They saw I was just taking my dog to the park.
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The idiot cops here in the Twin Cities should follow the example set by your cops.
 
peppermint said:
You are wrong.....I don't know who you are, but I hope you never have to go to jail......That's all I will say....
...Even though I don't know you....and will never know you..................................But I have to say, you are nasty........
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If someone like Derek Chauvin or Potter killed you I would have said the same thing. Obviously you have the luxury of not being black or brown like me. Even at my age I still get cops stopping me and demanding to inspect the bags I'm carrying or asking what the hell I'm doing in a building or neighborhood. Imagine that happening to you. Now imagine your peers or their children (or your children) facing a bullet even though they were innocent. Previously I wrote of a time I was reaching for a candy bar in my pocket and there was a cop near me reaching for his gun. Just imagine having to live with the fear that something like that can happen to you at any time. That's what I and others have to go through every day.

Criminally racist punks like Mark Fuhrman, Stacey Koon, and Derek Chauvin have been getting away with crimes like these for decades. These crimes have cost the cities hundreds of millions of dollars and and cause an incredible amount of social division. How much longer must we as a society continue to put up with this nonsense when it could be stopped overnight by simply applying the law to these police criminals exactly the way we do to everyone else?
 
Kim Potter may have been suffering from burnout or PTSD as many, many police officers are. I think there needs to be routine screening of police officers to see how they are doing emotionally/mentally and if they are still capable of doing their jobs. I don't believe it is being done in many police departments as they seem to be too busy trying to keep officers on the job.
 
I think this verdict sends a bad message to police officers that says if anyone wants to resist arrest, the officer should just let him run away. Frankly, I don’t want criminals running freely through my neighborhood, but it has come to that.
 
Tabby Ann said:
I think this verdict sends a bad message to police officers that says if anyone wants to resist arrest, the officer should just let him run away. Frankly, I don’t want criminals running freely through my neighborhood, but it has come to that.
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"Indiana wants me, Lord I can't go back there". 🙂
 
Tabby Ann said:
I think this verdict sends a bad message to police officers that says if anyone wants to resist arrest, the officer should just let him run away. Frankly, I don’t want criminals running freely through my neighborhood, but it has come to that.
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Or it can also serve to tell cops to apply the law on a uniform basis. As I wrote previously, had Daunte Wright been white the cops would never have stopped him as he was stopped for having fuzzy dice in violation of the law. Hundreds of white drivers do that every day and not one is ever stopped.
 
win231 said:
I might be overcome with emotion if I was facing prison, too.
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SeaBreeze said:
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oldpeculier said:
Nobody won here. She made a terrible mistake and will pay a hefty price. It's just sad.
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Gaer said:
What kind of people ARE YOU?
I can picture all of you in the dark ages, screaming "GUILOTINE!"
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I love you.....Gear.....I'm with you.....P.......I cried for that lady.....She never shot anyone in her 25 or how many years......
I hope anyone here are
oldiebutgoody said:
I refused to buy her crocodile tears and so did the jury. Imagine if anyone was stupid enough to believe her garbage - it would set a precedent where every cop would now find a ready excuse to cry to the jury and get off scot free. Don't know how long she will be in jail but to me a jail sentence is not enough. The gas chamber is the only possible solution as far as I'm concerned. Had it been the reverse I would have called for the same. Indeed, had it been a crook who croaked a cop, that's what just about everyone would be saying.
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OK....The hudlum was trying to get away....He had a record and the police were going to bring him to the station.....They were not going
to kill him....He got crazy.....He tried to get out of there....But the police knew he had a record.....they just wanted to take him to the police
station to calm him down.....And whatever they needed to do......The lady never killed anyone in her 25 or more years....It was a slip....the
stupid hudlum tried to get the police lady......He was stupid....All he had to do is go to the station and probably let him go.....But really
he had someting in his car..... I hope oldiebutgoody watch what you say.....You don't know what you are talking about.....
Don't tell me about cops.....I have many of them......I've had some die iin my family....Police.....Just because someone didn't like police
and they shoot them....So watch out what you say....................................................................I'm done.................................
 
oldiebutgoody said:
If someone like Derek Chauvin or Potter killed you I would have said the same thing. Obviously you have the luxury of not being black or brown like me. Even at my age I still get cops stopping me and demanding to inspect the bags I'm carrying or asking what the hell I'm doing in a building or neighborhood. Imagine that happening to you.
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That's hearbreaking, frightening and appalling if you're being stopped and questioned due to your colour at any age.. particularly when you're a senior.. just out of curiosity how old are you ?
 
peppermint said:
I love you.....Gear.....I'm with you.....P.......I cried for that lady.....She never shot anyone in her 25 or how many years......
I hope anyone here are

OK....The hudlum was trying to get away....He had a record and the police were going to bring him to the station.....They were not going
to kill him....He got crazy.....He tried to get out of there....But the police knew he had a record.....they just wanted to take him to the police
station to calm him down.....And whatever they needed to do......The lady never killed anyone in her 25 or more years....It was a slip....the
stupid hudlum tried to get the police lady......He was stupid....All he had to do is go to the station and probably let him go.....But really
he had someting in his car..... I hope oldiebutgoody watch what you say.....You don't know what you are talking about.....
Don't tell me about cops.....I have many of them......I've had some die iin my family....Police.....Just because someone didn't like police
and they shoot them....So watch out what you say....................................................................I'm done.................................
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I live in the Twin Cities and have observed everything I've written about. You have not. All they had to do was to apply the law on a uniform basis and the incident would not have taken place just as with George Floyd. She was the stupid one, not the victim.

As for having cops in the family, I have four. Only one remains in the service as the others retired. None of the cops I mentioned were shot. It is likely that fewer cops would get shot in this society if cops obeyed the law rather than abuse it.
 
hollydolly said:
That's hearbreaking, frightening and appalling if you're being stopped and questioned due to your colour at any age.. particularly when you're a senior.. just out of curiosity how old are you ?
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So....My husband was stopped because he went around a car and a cop stopped him...
He asked for my husband where he lived....My husband said 2 blocks....whats your name!
He said his name....He asked how many years you live here....My husband said 45 years....
Then he said, it seems you have a son....husband said yes.....Oh....I know who he is...
He is a school teacher....Yes......That was the only time a cop stop my husband......
 
Gemma said:
Probably 6-8 years.

Afraid and not thinking clearly? She definitely wasn't thinking clearly to place another officer and the passenger in the vehicle in danger, when she fired the shot into the vehicle, that killed Duante. It was testified to, that her spent casing hit her fellow officer in the face too when ejected from her firearm..

Potter was a field training officer...this killing should provide an opening for addressing how officers are trained, and how they are held accountable when that training fails. And, IMO, the rookies she trained, should be re-trained.
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Retraining seems to be the answer to all police wrongdoings. Obviously, if somebody doesn't have any common sense and is grossly incompetent, all the retraining in the world isn't going to solve anything.

Maybe what's needed are higher standards for police officer hiring, but since there's a shortage of police, so that's not going to happen. Instead, standards will be lowered so they can fill positions.

Or maybe what's needed is societal reform so there aren't so many criminals, like maybe provide a way to get out of poverty without committing crimes. That's not going to happen because that's socialism!

You're probably pretty close with 6-8 years. We'll find out in February.
 

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Gemma said:
Probably 6-8 years.

Afraid and not thinking clearly? She definitely wasn't thinking clearly to place another officer and the passenger in the vehicle in danger, when she fired the shot into the vehicle, that killed Duante. It was testified to, that her spent casing hit her fellow officer in the face too when ejected from her firearm..

Potter was a field training officer...this killing should provide an opening for addressing how officers are trained, and how they are held accountable when that training fails. And, IMO, the rookies she trained, should be re-trained.
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If you're not a "gun person," a spent casing always ejects from any auto pistol or rifle with each shot. A high-pressure cartridge like the 9mm will product a hot casing, but not hot enough to really cause serious injury, except in the unprotected eye.
 
win231 said:
If you're not a "gun person," a spent casing always ejects from any auto pistol or rifle with each shot. A high-pressure cartridge like the 9mm will product a hot casing, but not hot enough to really cause serious injury, except in the unprotected eye.
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Gun person? lol I'm well aware of how spent casings eject @win231.

The "officer" testified he was hit by it because she was that close to him when she fired.
 
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Irwin said:
Maybe what's needed are higher standards for police officer hiring, but since there's a shortage of police, so that's not going to happen. Instead, standards will be lowered so they can fill positions.
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Depending on whose statistics or sociological reports you choose to believe, there has been talk over the years that 50% of all crime in the USA is drug related. Simple solution: de-criminalize drugs. That would empty out the jails in half. Create drug clinics/hospitals for those addicted instead of jails. That will eliminate drug lords, urban drugs gangs, corrupt cops who are on the take from druggies, greatly reduce street crimes associated with drugs, and help make for a better society. As always, however, political pundits of a certain persuasion refuse to impose this change and society remains screwed because of such stupidity. If anything this will lead to the hiring of fewer cops for the simple reason that with reduced crime, fewer cops would be needed.
 
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