{"id":49927,"date":"2021-12-23T20:21:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T20:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49927"},"modified":"2021-12-23T20:21:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T20:21:09","slug":"jury-rules-correctly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49927","title":{"rendered":"Jury rules correctly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Kim Potter messed up when she pulled her service revolver out of its holster and fired a shot into Daunte Wright, so a jury today ruled in a Minneapolis courtroom.<\/p>\n<p>Potter is a former Minneapolis police officer who stood trial on two manslaughter counts in Wright\u2019s death. The jury convicted her of first- and second-degree manslaughter. It was the correct verdict.<\/p>\n<p>Understand that I was not at the scene when Potter killed Wright. I know what most of us know, which is that Potter said she\u00a0<em>thought<\/em> she was reaching for her Taser but pulled out her pistol instead.<\/p>\n<p>Police procedure tells me the Taser and the pistol are stored on opposite sides of the belt that officers wear. The Taser is a brightly colored device designed to stun a suspect \u2026 not kill him or her. The pistol is, well, a firearm on which cops are trained to use with proficiency.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m still scratching my head over how Potter could mistake one device for the other. Then again, I never have been involved in a life-and-death struggle, so I cannot judge whether Potter was thinking clearly when she shot Daunte Wright to death.<\/p>\n<p>And\u00a0<em>of course,<\/em>\u00a0we have the racial element: Wright was African-American, Potter is white.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, Minneapolis \u2014 which was torn asunder by the George Floyd murder while he was being arrested by local police \u2014 is likely to be spared the uprising one might expect had the jury gone the other way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Potter messed up when she pulled her service revolver out of its holster and fired a shot into Daunte Wright, so a jury today ruled in a Minneapolis courtroom. Potter is a former Minneapolis police officer who stood trial on two manslaughter counts in Wright\u2019s death. The jury convicted her of first- and second-degree &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49927\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jury rules correctly<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8688],"tags":[9824,9375,9379],"class_list":["post-49927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-news","tag-daunte-wright","tag-george-floyd","tag-minneapolis-pd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49928,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49927\/revisions\/49928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}