Not one iota. She is 100% responsible for careless use of force causing the unjustified death.
Because “pulled over for being white” is a common problem for Caucasians, right?
Know when to put the shovel down, dipshit.
Is this just for posterity, pomposity, or are you addressing something you believe I said about maintaining the current status quo in policing?
Asking for my horse…
Please point out in all of the videos that have appeared in the case, did a police officer ever once mention a warrant.
I’m afraid I can’t. Nor can you provide a cite that it wasn’t mentioned. We just don’t know.
But if I’m being cuffed for a set expired tags, I would be asking myself whether that warrant I received April 2 has something to do with my current predicament.
Cop shows up during an incident of harassment at Minneapolis airport and immediately attempts to detain the black woman who was being harassed instead of the white woman who was doing the harassment.
https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/video-officer-at-msp-airport-briefly-detains-black-woman-being-harassed-by-white-woman
Oh, BTW, Kim Potter is going to be charged with manslaughter.
Fixed link:
Video: Officer at MSP Airport briefly detains Black woman who is being harassed by white woman | kare11.com
It’s not that – it’s that you feel comfortable passing judgment on the feelings a young black person could/should have when interacting with the police.
The warrant doesn’t matter. Black people, and especially black men ages 15-50, have a very legitimate reason to be terrified when interacting with police, warrant or not. Do you disagree? If you agree, then you can’t possibly reasonably pass any negative judgment on Wright for attempting to flee.
This line of thought is preposterous. I agree that young black men have more reason to fear the police. So, it would behoove them to take extra caution around police and not run, not drive away and not pull away and jump into a car at the very moment handcuffs are being applied.
Black people, especially men ages 15-50 (hell even younger, FFS, e.g. Tamir Rice) have legitimate reason to fear interactions with police. And yet I also believe that warrants do matter. As does escalation under otherwise non-threatening circumstance. Now, if we learn that Kim Potter threatened or intimidated Daunte Wright in some way, then yeah, an attempt to flee makes much more sense and the entire context changes.
See, I don’t think it is helpful to conflate the very real institutional issues of racism in policing with every single interaction between a police officer and black male. We have no reason to conclude that this incident was racially motivated or that the officer acted out of racial animus towards the victim.
Maybe the police should approach young black men with more respect and deference, since the police are the ones who have been abusive towards them for decades.
Yes, they should remain calm and polite, like Philando Castile.
Ever been in mortal terror? Why would you expect superb and perfect discipline and clear-headedness from teens and 20 year olds experiencing mortal terror?
This expectation is part of this broken system and broken culture. Black people aren’t superhuman. They have the same human feelings and foibles as everyone else. When humans are in terror, they sometimes attempt to flee or resist.
Money might do it, too.
If police officers were likely to be personally sued into oblivion when they pulled this (goodbye house, cars, college education for your children, pension? hah!, credit scores for the next 7 years) and banned from any hope of a job with any kind of law enforcement ever (because hiring them would mean a drastic increase in insurance premiums and automatic double damages for an incident with an officer who had lost previous lawsuits). They’d probably feel less “threatened” less often.
There’s much, much more to this broken, racist system than the possibility of “racially motivated” behavior or “racial animus towards the victim”. That’s just a piece of this problem. We could eliminate every shred of personal racial animus in every single cop and that would only eliminate a fraction of this problem.
A journey of a thousand miles…
Look, racism is not just a justice system problem, or just an American society problem. It’s a human species problem. Would you like to fix things that can be fixed, one step at a time, with some reasonable expectation of measurable success, or would you like to pull the life support on the entire human race and hope the next dominant species has better luck?
Kim Potter is being charged with Manslaughter:
Agree. And this is why “more training” won’t solve anything.
The problem is not that these cops do not understand proper procedure and protocol. The problem is that they don’t care despite knowing it. “More training” won’t solve this problem.
Or, much more recently, that army captain who got sprayed right in the face with mace, pulled out of the car, and sustained blows to his legs and knees. Oh, and his military career was also threatened.