Wednesday 22 December 2021

Gut Feeling Over the Daunte Wright Shooting

Four observations:

1.  I've watched the video.....the minute that the cops have confirmed his ID, and are moving to get him out of the car, he's acting a certain way for about 30 seconds, then decides 'what the heck, I'll just escape'.  This triggers the cops reaction.  

Why the escape deal?  He's got a warrant for a situation over a aggravated armed robbery.   Just a humble guess, but with some friendly DA.....he's still going to prison for a year.  

For the cops, the minute they realize the warrant is for aggravated armed robbery.....that means a weapon was being used someone at the robbery.  This pumps up all three cops to a level of 'worry'.

2.  On the female cop (Potter), the taser should have been a shoulder weapon....NOT on the belt.  I'm not saying it matters that much, but you have to make a decision and reaching for your belt (left or right)....shouldn't be a thought proccess.

3.  Convicting Potter (the cop)?  I could see some lesser sentence of three years, but not fifteen years.  The jury?  Hard to say.

4.  Finally, to the idea of some 20-year old doing something 'extra-stupid'.....getting into a robbery?  I look at this behavior and just suggest that he was going to die sooner or later....in some act.  You had someone who just wasn't an adult.  

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