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My first reaction to learning of the sentence given to a former Minneapolis police officer who shot a young man to death thinking she was firing a Taser at him, and not her pistol, was that she got off too lightly.<\/p>\n

Former cop Kim Potter will serve two years in the slammer and on supervised probation in the shooting death of Daunte Wright.<\/p>\n

Potter is a white woman; Wright was African American.<\/p>\n

She got into a tussle with Wright during a stop. Wright started resisting arrest. Potter reached for her service pistol and shot Wright. She carried her Taser on the other side of her belt. The Taser is bright yellow; the pistol is black. They feel differently in the hand and they certainly look differently.<\/p>\n

I was horrified when I first heard of the incident. How could a trained police officer make such a grievous error? How does one reach for one device thinking she was reaching for another one?<\/p>\n

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