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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lawyer here who used to go after bad cops.  Video is clear and is why bodycam video is needed.  This was a mistake.  She says taser, taser taser and fires a single pull.  If she was shooting him a single pull is unlikely.  If she meant to shoot him and cover it up most would yell gun not taser, taser, taser.  The other officers are not clear for a gunshot either.  Also the context is a guy slipping out of handcuffs and there is an ongoing battle.  There is no crime committed by the officer.  Negligent homicide requires a level of intent that is not really negligent despite the name.  I will go further and say they may not be able to legally fire her.  I think they will.  Mayor is already calling for it but she will get the job back with back pay.  People may not like that but it is what I see.   [/quote]

You get your job back after a lethal mistake? The cop who killed Oscar Grant served time. [/quote]
NP. This killer cop needs to be prosecuted and spend at least a few years behind bars.  She definitely should never work as a police officer ever again given her gross lack of self-control and judgement.[/quote]

You are just not watching the video.  Or you are and you don't understand what you see.  There is no evidence this was anything other than a mistake.  There is no crime for a mistake in this situation.  Someone above said there is probable cause.  Of what?  Not that a crime has been committed.  A guy is dead.  That is awful.  But she does not have the intent needed.  That disregard.  A poster above said taser should have been on other side.  Maybe someone could argue that but I do not think so.  There is no such firm requirement and it all depends on what the officer wants to do.  But for those people saying it should have been on the other side, what if in another scenario it was and she still did this?  From my perspective no change in analysis.

She made a mistake.  there is no gross lack of self control and judgment.  She made the decision to deploy non lethal force.  That decision in the context of that video is correct.  Her judgment is correct.  She makes an error in performing.  That simply put is not a crime even when someone dies.

what is she was in a fight and used a baton.  She means to make a legal strike but she misaims and the person moves and she hits him in the head and he dies.  No crime there.  She made a mistake and there is a death.  No you would not lose your job for this.  Same as what happened here.[/quote]

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

It absolutely IS department policy and REQUIRED that all officers wear their taser on the nondominant side, and their gun on their dominant side. It’s department policy, it’s trained, it’s drilled into them. The whole purpose is to avoid a situation where the wrong weapon is drawn in ‘the fog of war.’ This woman is a 26 year veteran officer - no way she doesn’t know this policy and requirement.

Additionally, the differences in shape, weight, color, and trigger pressure required makes it inexplicable that a 26 year veteran officer could pull her firearm and think she’s holding her taser. It’s nonsensical. Never mind that in the body cam video you can see with your own eyes that her firearm is extended in front of her, in her own line of vision, and it’s a black Glock and not a yellow taser. The officer to her right has his taser holstered on his nondominant (left) side and you can see it, how bright yellow and not black Glock it is.

Finally, under Minnesota law she can be charged with murder for the consequences of the action she ‘meant’ to engage in - tasering Wright. If her actions resulted in his death, whatever she intended her actions caused that deadly result and her gross negligence and disregard for human life - just like in Chauvin’s case - could see her charged with 2nd degree murder.

Plus she’s a piece of shit.[/quote]

Also this:

[img]https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2021/04/12/brooklyn-center-shooting/11e4824111def4ead007d04e8dcbcf2bd156a673/handgun-taser-mobile.jpg[/img][/quote]

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