I'm guessing that Kim Potter took lessons from Kyle Rittenhouse's Crying Coach!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. I'm guessing that shooting someone is traumatic no matter who you are, and crying is a perfectly

acceptable response on the stand or elsewhere.

[Mary in S. Carolina]

2. Except she has no tears and her constant

breakdowns, over and over and over are a bit much acting for me. Also, instead of rendering aid to the man she shot, she broke down and cried for "herself".

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. What would acceptable crying on the stand look like for you?

[blueinredohio]

7. At least a few tears.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

9. Right but how many.

[Fullduplexxx]

11. More than none?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

12. okay but how many is too many and looks fake too

[Fullduplexxx]

13. How many is subjective but it should start with more than none

[WhiskeyGrinder]

14. What if it is just one? A single tear.

[Fullduplexxx]

15. You can get that just by yanking out a nose hair

[WhiskeyGrinder]

22. I feel like that kind of tear would be judged illegitimate, though.

[Fullduplexxx]

24. Well if you got it by pulling out a nose hair it would be illegitimate

[Fullduplexxx]

25. Well if you got it by pulling out a nose hair I agree it would be illegitimate

[Mary in S. Carolina]

30. Not what she did,

notice no tears, but a lot of drama.

[yardwork]

3. I saw a brief clip and she seems to be sincerely devastated and remorseful.

It sounds like she made a bad mistake, but it was a mistake. That's very different from Chauvin, for instance.

[PTWB]

17. She had no ill intent.

Her actions were negligent despite the lack of intent. That negligence resulted in the death of an innocent man. Her prosecution is warranted.

[yardwork]

18. Oh, I agree. I'm just saying that I don't think it was malicious.

[PTWB]

19. Agreed. Not malicious, just extremely negligent.

[totodeinhere]

21. Agreed, and I don't think that people should be put in prison for making genuine mistakes.

At best she should only be subject to civil liability if she demonstrated carelessness and recklessness but not premeditated murder. One reason why our country has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world is because we throw too many people in prison when there might be better solutions.

[GoodRaisin]

28. I agree.

A very big mistake. But I don’t think she’ll go to prison.

And it’s very different from the crocodile tears of Rittenhouse, who took an AR-15 and went looking for trouble.

[LakeArenal]

5. Very typical male reaction to any crying.

[MrsCoffee]

6. +1

[tulipsandroses]

8. I'm a woman and I'm not buying it

Sure, the thought of spending most of the rest of your life in prison is terrifying. She was very flippant about the fact that she did not follow department protocol. That tells me that her tears are all about how her “mistake” is ruining her life not that her recklessness took someone’s life.

[Mary in S. Carolina]

31. +10000

[pressbox69]

10. I believe her.

I don't think her cries are fake. That's what my gut tells me. It also tells me that Rittenhouse is a total fake. Eddie Haskill with deadly weapon.

[DenaliDemocrat]

16. If I accidentally shot and killed someone

I would WANT to go to prison. I would plead no contest and take my punishment. Honestly, serving is the only way I could live with myself. I sure wouldn’t be on a stand arguing to be set free

[totodeinhere]

23. So you really think that people should be thrown in prison for accidents?

No wonder this country has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world. I used to think that progressives favored prison reform, but too many at DU seem to have a real blood lust and want to throw people who are not career criminals in prison and throw away the key.

[DenaliDemocrat]

26. If the accident is because of your negligence - yes

Oh you killed somebody because you couldn’t see because you didn’t wipe the snow off your car - go to jail

You killed someone because you grabbed a pistol not a taser - go to jail


Your pit bull killed someone - go to jail

I’m not talking life in prison but some reckoning for negligence costing another person their life is fair

[totodeinhere]

27. What will going to prison solve in situations like this?

The answer is nothing. Only people who intentionally commit violent crimes or serious white collar crimes should go to prison. Prison should not be used to get revenge against people who make genuinely unintentional mistakes.

[GoodRaisin]

29. +1

[Mary in S. Carolina]

32. Agreed

[totodeinhere]

20. Or maybe she genuinely felt remorse.

Why do so many people always make the worst possible assumption about cases like this?

[Mary in S. Carolina]

33. We are looking at the Facts

1. She was highly trained
2. She knew the difference between a gun and a taser
3. She did not render aid
4. She fake cried on the stand

The facts go on and on that show she is negligent. Why are you not following the facts? Do you have a "gut" feeling that this was just an accident too? I am always amazed at how the facts are "whitewashed" when a black person is killed.

The facts are the facts and she is negligent.