Minneapolis is a wonderful city that is plagued by a deeply racist, truly awful police department.
Unfortunately we keep electing cowards who refuse to actually do anything about the problems baked fully into the PD. Bleh.
JonRowe
3021
Where is the NRA on any of this?
Enidigm
3022
Weirdly enough the NRA has kind of imploded in their moment of victory. An advocacy organization that made gun control impossible is no longer needed once it’s impossible to regulate guns.
That, and the grift well running dry / getting caught.
Menzo
3023
Mostly the getting caught part.
ShivaX
3024
Sucking cop dicks mostly.
Hey sometimes they stop long enough to lick their boots or give Putin a rimjob!
JoshL
3026
Well, their stances of “you should be able to shoot and kill anyone who bothers you” and “cops should be able to kill anyone they want at any moment” kind of smashed into each other when cops started shooting and killing people with guns. It was kind of like that scene where Spock says “Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell bad”.
Two years is BS.
Ex-officer Kim Potter sentenced to 2 years in killing of Daunte Wright after she said she mistook her gun for a Taser
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/02/18/kim-potter-sentence/
It’s straight involuntary manslaughter, right? At least here in California, that’s about what you would get if you killed someone in a car accident, through some form of fault.
Honestly? I don’t know that I agree. I’m not a huge believer in really either the corrective or punitive aspects of crazy-long prison sentences – IMO those should be reserved for people who seriously cannot be allowed in society.
I’m glad she was convicted. I don’t know that putting her away until she’s old and grey is super useful.
It seems clear that she didn’t mean to kill anyone; that it was a colossal fuckup. I’m glad that she was convicted, and I agree that there isn’t any good reason to lock her up forever. It’s not like she’s going to be an ongoing danger, since (I hope) nobody will ever trust her with a badge and gun and taser again.
Timex
3032
Yeah, fucking up in a way that leads to people dying requires punishment, but there’s no indication here that she harbored malice or intended to harm the victim, and it does not appear that this is the result of assume kind of continued pattern of
incompetence.
She’s incompetent and shouldn’t be allowed to wear a badge, but she’s not a murderer or something.
Djscman
3033
I agree on both counts. It was a tragic mistake, but she fumbled the tools she had at hand. This won’t happen for years and years if ever, and it doesn’t solve underlying systemic racism and power imbalances, but Minnesotan police officers should lose the privilege of carrying sidearms in a holster. I would have said “except for highly trained rapid response teams”, but the Minneapolis PD has been showing that those teams can’t be trusted with guns either. They can keep their guns locked up in their car, and only unlock and retrieve them in rare circumstances.
Literally the MPD needs to be completely torn down and rebuilt. I’m so disgusted with what they’ve done since murdering Floyd.
Houngan
3035
I gotta admit I don’t really recall any details about this case. Was it officers with a subdued subject and they went overboard, or something else?
Djscman
3037
Depends which case you’re talking about, and we can go down a couple of tangents. Briefly, Shuma’s accurate for this suburban sentencing. The shortest version, lacking nuance, is that the then-officer (also high up in her town’s police union) meant to Taser a guy starting to flee a traffic stop but, whoops! She shot him instead. Also briefly, two weeks ago, in Minneapolis (the bigger city near this suburb with the recently-sentenced former officer) a SWAT-ish team served a controversial no-knock predawn search warrant. In one of the three apartments they forcibly entered that morning, a guy was asleep on a couch. He was awakened by the squad’s loud entry. He happened to be cradling a pistol as he slumbered. One of the police officers noted this and shot him to death. The guy was not the subject of the search warrant, did not have a record, and had a license for his pistol. That’s the short version of that story, and like Adam said, the Minneapolis Police Department in particular and several surrounding police departments also have been acting in a disgusting manner when it comes to public safety and public service.
