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WhiskeyGrinder

(27,035 posts) Mon Apr 12, 2021, 10:36 PM Apr 2021

BCA identifies officer in Daunte Wright shooting [View all]

https://kstp.com/news/bca-identifies-officer-in-daunte-wright-shooting/6073236/

Monday night, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension identified the officer who shot and killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center Sunday.

The BCA identified the long-time veteran of the Brooklyn Center Police Department as Officer Kim Potter.

Potter is on standard administrative leave.

On Monday, the police chief said he believed that the shooting was accidental and that the officer thought she fired her taser instead of her handgun.

She's got 25+ years of experience and is the president of the Brooklyn Center Police Officer's Association. BC cops have killed people before, and she represented them in administrative hearings.

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BCA identifies officer in Daunte Wright shooting [View all] WhiskeyGrinder Apr 2021 OP

From video, I believe the shooting was a horrible "error." I don't believe stop Hoyt Apr 2021 #1

What do you mean by putting quote marks around error? WhiskeyGrinder Apr 2021 #3

It was a terrible error that should not have been made, but was. Hoyt Apr 2021 #9

What leads you to believe... ret5hd Apr 2021 #11

Copaganda is a helluva drug. WhiskeyGrinder Apr 2021 #15

I watched the video, the way she was holding and aiming the "taser," the 2 Hoyt Apr 2021 #19

. WhiskeyGrinder Apr 2021 #12

Is there a safety on a taser? gldstwmn Apr 2021 #17

If the kid had been white, do you even believe he would have been stopped? joetheman Apr 2021 #23

Read my post, Joe. I said the GD stop was wrong. Hoyt Apr 2021 #25

How many times before zipplewrath Apr 2021 #7

Look at the video, she clearly thought she was holding a taser. Doesn't excuse her, or those Hoyt Apr 2021 #14

"Look at the video, she clearly thought she was holding a taser." WhiskeyGrinder Apr 2021 #20

Yeah, I know, in less than 2 seconds she concocted this plan to shoot the poor Hoyt Apr 2021 #22

Cops generally don't concoct plans to shoot people. WhiskeyGrinder Apr 2021 #26

If we are talking police in general, agree. This lady would have fired more than once Hoyt Apr 2021 #27

She's, like, 47. WhiskeyGrinder Apr 2021 #28

She didn't think she had a gun. Again, don't know if she has early dementia, Hoyt Apr 2021 #29

Clearly? Why? Because she yelled taser? ecstatic Apr 2021 #21

No, because she is holding, aiming, and moving close like one with a taser. Hoyt Apr 2021 #24

STOP RESISTING!!! ret5hd Apr 2021 #31

25 years experience and can't feel the diff between a heavy gun and a taser? brush Apr 2021 #2

I'm saying. WhiskeyGrinder Apr 2021 #6

Standard operating practice at this PD... magicarpet Apr 2021 #8

"she concocted the lame ass bullshit story saying her intent was to shoot the kid with the Taser" EX500rider Apr 2021 #10

I agree. She's even aiming and holding it like a taser. Doesn't excuse her. Hoyt Apr 2021 #16

No it does not, manslaughter is manslaughter EX500rider Apr 2021 #18

Experienced police woman committed manslaughter. magicarpet Apr 2021 #4

Yep. WhiskeyGrinder Apr 2021 #5

Oh hell no. gldstwmn Apr 2021 #13

Kim Potter: dalton99a Apr 2021 #30