The Kim Potter Trial: should she go to prison?

dseag2 said:
I hear you. What haunts me to this day is the case of Elijah McClain. Wonderful, caring kid who played music for shelter animals. He was so innocent, and the police killed him for absolutely no reason. Yes, the family received a $15 million settlement for his death, but that will never bring him back and did that change the behavior? These incidents are disgusting, and no, it is never all over.
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I wonder what charitable cause his family has shared their "winnings" with.
 
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. 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?
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dseag2 said:
Oldiebutgoody, thank you for sharing your story. As someone with "white privilege", I can't even imagine what you've had to endure all your life. I guess I'm a bit more sympathetic because I'm gay and my partner is brown. We've had to make choices as to where we could live because of this. But I know it isn't nearly as serious as what you've experienced. I can't even imagine.

It is especially distressing to hear black mothers talk about how they've had to prepare their sons to go out into the world, be discriminated against and fear the police. Yes, there some Bad Apples in every race, but why should black or brown people have to behave any differently than white people who are equally culpable when confronted by the police? Such inequity in our society.

I understand where your frustration is coming from and thank you again for being transparent. 👍
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My father was brown black....Mom was very white....So I am in between..My father had many kids from his father and grandmother....Sometimes when I was older, I had to help my father tell me who are white and some were brown...Some also were very very brown....Most were Italian....And from another country....This is the first time I ever thought about it....It was a
different time....I loved everyone of the family....Some of my
cousins were half and half....I never cared what ever they were...
I loved every one of them....Most are gone....I don't know why
I'm telling, but I'm old now and I don't care what or who is black
or brown or another family that were born in another country and
came over to America....Most were Italian....some were from another country....Can't remember where or when....My mind is not
like I use to be.....They are all gone......I do sometime go to the cemetary....Sometime I don't remember cause we had a very huge
family.....I most go to my parents and brother's wall.....I cry every time....By the way, my father was always called a name I won't say...
At that time it was a name that you would say...OK....hahaha....not
anymore....Dad had many friends no matter who they were and bring home guy's that were in the armory with my dad...Mom had to whip up a plate for the guy....I would not eat....
Oh well....Those were the day's...... Oh, my best armory guy was
Rodchester....He was black....I'm trying to remember how many
guys came to my mom and dad's home.....for Spaghetti....
I'm sad......
 
oldiebutgoody said:
they are illegal in Minnesota: https://tinyurl.com/2kzje7du


Fuzzy dice, pennants, elves, and other things are believed to pose a hazard to the public. The problem isn't the law so much as is the continued inconsistent enforcement of the law here. You see these things on cars all the time as thousands of motorists use them. But let one black driver have one and the stupid cops suddenly decide the driver is a public menace.

The expiration date of a tag is in tiny print on the right side of a license. Operating an automobile on city streets requires a driver to keep his eyes on the road all the time. Take your eyes off the road for only a few seconds and you put the public in danger. With all the traffic moving along, the cops have to have eyes like an eagle and take a deep look at a license in order to ascertain that the driver is using expired tags. In other words, they have to be targeting someone in order to be able to make such discernment. Targeting blacks is a specialty among these bigoted pieces of s____t. Small wonder why there are so many racial troubles in Minnesota.
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Do you think that the black police officer that pulled Daunte Wright over is a racist?
 
oldiebutgoody said:
they are illegal in Minnesota: https://tinyurl.com/2kzje7du

With all the traffic moving along, the cops have to have eyes like an eagle and take a deep look at a license in order to ascertain that the driver is using expired tags. In other words, they have to be targeting someone in order to be able to make such discernment.
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It would be easier to just run the plate then try to eyeball small print?
 
Nathan said:
Don't know what the black officer's inner thoughts were, but Daunte Wright was black, so 'race' would not be an issue there.
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Potter was in charge. Neither would have bothered had the driver been white. Every conversation we've had here in the Twinkie Cities involved that issue.
 
oldiebutgoody said:
Potter was in charge. Neither would have bothered had the driver been white. Every conversation we've had here in the Twinkie Cities involved that issue.
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It would be pretty easy to check their police log and see if they only pulled over black people. It might be more accurate information than your conversations with like minded friends.
 
Larry67 said:
Maybe people will stop becoming police officers. That should prevent situation from happening again. Never lose hope.
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Police reform worked in Camden, NJ. That's what we need throughout the USA. After all, remember when Reagan said government needs to get off your back? Too bad nobody applied that to the corrupt cops or society would have been so much better off.
 
oldiebutgoody said:
Recently I was out side and saw a white motorist run a red light. Dunno what his hurry was. But mebbe a couple of cops should have opened fire on him and put him in a grave so that he would learn a lesson he'd never forget.
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Yeah, I mean obviously he was a criminal :unsure: and the cops have to protect themselves from the criminals. 🙄
 

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