This is for anyone feeling even a little bit sorry for Kim Potter

[kpete]

Roughly 2 yrs before Daunte Wright’s death, Kim Potter was involved in another deadly shooting by cop. She instructed the officers who shot Kobe Dimock-Heisler to turn off their body cams. Is that really proper protocol?! We can NOT let this continue! 🎥:

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[NoRethugFriends]

1. Never even crossed my mind to feel sorry for her. (nt)

[underpants]

3. Me either

[PJMcK]

2. I don't feel anything but contempt for Potter

She clearly demonstrated that she is unfit to be a police officer. Lock her up.

[leftstreet]

4. But, but...maybe she had sensory overload

or body memory told her to shut those cameras down

The hapless otherwise really good white lady just isn't your typical traditional criminal

[kiri]

20. Cops actually spend boring lives.

Cops actually spend boring lives. Most of the time, there is really nothing to do, drive around, put on flashing lights for fun, lurk for hours to pounce on some poor guy with a broken tailight (gotten from the long-gone car parked behind). Hope that one of your buddies has some excitement, put on sirens and swarm to add 3rd, 4th, 8th car to the flashing lights, stand around doing nothing. Even feeling important is hard.

They crave excitement. Bank robbers? Turn on sirens, injure their own hearing, get to donuts faster; swarm, shoot somebody.

Kim got caught up in this cop way to get something exciting and worthwhile in their lives. "Serve and protect" was farthermost thing in her mind. It was "catched you, I am superior, obey me, glad you are scared." Cop mentality--you are mere 'civilians'.

Cops are not military, not elected representatives, and therefore are civilians hired to do a job. In Europe {Germany, Scandinavia, Netherlands, even Poland and Hungary} to become a police officer, you need 18 months of education and training. Here cops get 2 weeks! Mostly about how to point a gun. The difference between a taser and a gun is covered not even in the Appendix.

[hlthe2b]

5. It is not rare to find that those who are exposed in these acts have done so before.

Thank you.

[empedocles]

7. Telling detail

[uponit7771]

6. damn

[yagotme]

8. I just can't understand, a "trainer", that many years on the force,

etc., etc., and you can't tell the difference between your sidearm and your taser. A half-second glance, perhaps when you're shouting "Taser, Taser, Taser." would have clued you in that you had the wrong weapon out. If you break down that much mentally, in a stressful situation, you have no right to serve. Just my $.02.

[vlyons]

9. I'm not ashamed to feel sorry for her

I'm a Buddhist and taught to feel compassion for all sentient beings. She is an in credibly stupid woman and should certainly be held accountable for her homicidal negligence and c ompletely inappropriate response to what should have been a routine traffic stop. But no --- her aggression escalated the encounter.

What I feel sorry for her about is her ignorance about how much suffering her aggression has created -- for herself, the family and child of the man she shot. Maybe sitting in a small gray cell with nothing to do will enable her to realize that actions have consequences and aggression only creates more suffering.

So you folks can pooh-pooh for feeling sorry for her. I don't care. That is my experience.

[iscooterliberally]

13. Well said. We can all do better. Thanks!

[hlthe2b]

14. Justice is not incompatible with compassion. But compassion without justice is destructive to

democracies. Neither is inconsistent with Buddhism, btw. Nor Christianity. Nor Hinduism. Nor any number of other major religious tenets.

To proclaim that this woman should not be held to account or to put your empathy or sympathy for her above all else is to promote the horrible inequalities in our justice system that we face today.

[PTWB]

10. I think Kim Potter was negligent and was properly convicted.

But I’m not seeing a problem with her actions as a supervisor in this video clip. She separates the shooters, orders them not to communicate with each other, and instructs them to disable their body worn camera. Those all seem like proper instructions, no?

The incident is over and the camera is no longer needed. Those cameras typically upload automatically, wirelessly, upon completion of the recording. By ending the recording, the video will be uploaded and ready for investigators to view immediately.

Officers will also typically contact a union representative and an attorney immediately after any shooting. It would not be proper to record such conversations.

When do people suggest that Potter should have instructed the officers to disable their cameras? After they’d been in the car for 5 minutes? After they made it back to the police station? Some time after that?

[momta]

19. Thank you.

I had heard that it was proper procedure to disable the cameras after an "incident" but I didn't know why. This makes sense.

[Zeitghost]

23. The cop haters don't care.

They won't mention she separated them to avoid even the appearance of coming up with a "good story".

Some here literally think she hunted down and executed Mr. Wright for being black. What she did was criminally negligent and tragic and she will pay the price for that, but the spin some are putting on it is crazy.

[femmedem]

11. Wow, I did not know that. Thank you. n/t

[Fullduplexxx]

12. But but but she cried on the stand

[usaf-vet]

18. It worked for Rittenhouse. How many years did we hear about using the OJ defense.

I'll bet it is not the last time we will see him arrested and on trial.

[llashram]

15. and another trumper

bites the dust hard.. May her sentence reflect her murderous nature.

[flying_wahini]

16. Another racist POS who just happens to be a white wOman. Lock her fat ass up.

[Evolve Dammit]

17. Good info. Dispells any inclination toward sympathy. Thanks

[Delphinus]

21. Yikes!

Did that become known at the trial? Seems her department should have fired her a bit ago.

[GoodRaisin]

22. Looks like she had it coming.

A long time police officer who became abusive and loose in her practices and justice finally caught up with her. Unfortunately another had to die first. Hope this will make all the other police officers who have been on the job long enough to think they have the power over others to do anything they want will think hard about it now because of this example.

[marie999]

24. She did exactly what she wanted to do.

[Raine]

25. I did feel sorry for her, didn't know about the other. 😔 nt

[RobinA]

26. I Feel For Her

and will continue to do so. She made a mistake that took somebody's life. When you work in certain fields this is a possibility that you live with. Some people are careless with that responsibility, most are not. We really don't know her or how she did her job. Unless a reason to think otherwise comes out, I will risk erring on the side of compassion. Hating her isn't going to bring the victim back.