Brooklyn Center Police Chief and Kim Potter Have Both Resigned

[FelineOverlord]

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[FelineOverlord]

1. Brooklyn Center Police Chief and Kim Potter Have Both Resigned

The mayor wasn’t happy with them.

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[soothsayer]

2. Jeezus. Bye bye

[gldstwmn]

14. The protestors have gas masks and a quart of milk

so the cops retaliate with fucking tanks. How much longer are we going to have to play this out night after night until people get it?

[FelineOverlord]

3. Brooklyn Center Police Chief and Kim Potter Have Both Resigned

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[jimfields33]

4. I wonder about pension.

I know she had 26 years. Not sure about the captain.

[Jersey Devil]

11. 25 years usually qualifies for a full pension, some places less is needed

In NYC, for example, it is 20 years and out.

Cops sometimes stay on to increase their pensions. For instance, in some jurisdictions a cop gets 60% of his/her last year's pay at 25 years but if they stay on they get 2% per year extra up to 30 years.

[bluestarone]

5. GREAT NEWS

Maybe they can get something done now. Need to watch for moral problems now!

[Sneederbunk]

6. When is the mayor going to resign?

[Treefrog]

7. Yeah, he seems a bit out of his depth.

I wish him luck.

[brush]

21. Out of his depth because he's a young Black man?

Do you have any idea how that sounds? And the city manager was in charge of the police dept., not the mayor.

[stopdiggin]

8. why?

City manager is/was in charge of the police department. He's been fired. Mayor (ostensibly) would appear to be stepping up. Not sure if this would be a good time for a 'no one in charge' scenario.

[MineralMan]

9. Why should he? He wasn't in charge of the Police Dept.

Now he is, after the city council fired the City Manager. Big shake-up in Brooklyn Center.

[gldstwmn]

15. He actually seems to be the only one doing

the right thing here.

[greenjar_01]

17. Agreed

Some weird takes here on the Mayor.

[brush]

20. Why would the mayor resign? The police chief reports to the city manager...

not the mayor.

[ecstatic]

10. I didn't hear an apology in her letter

If I killed someone by "accident," that's the first thing I'd do.

[NutmegYankee]

12. A laywer would not advise it.

She probably faces negligent homicide or involuntary manslaughter charges.

[ecstatic]

16. As a juror, I would look more kindly on someone who took responsibility and apologized.

But maybe that's just me.

It's not like the entire incident isn't on video.

The question in the jurors' minds will be whether she was only pretending to be confused when she yelled "taser."

Personally, I think it was premeditated murder and her dry resignation letter, which seems to blame protesters for her decision to resign, doesn't help.

[NutmegYankee]

19. I look at the video and came the to opposite conclusion.

I have also studied similar accidents from aircraft pilots, so this sort of mistake does happen in high stress events. The brain can shut out even obvious clues or chimes as the person gets tunnel vision - in this case probably looking for a gun to come out from beneath a seat.

[ecstatic]

22. A retired police chief said you do not reach for a taser if you fear a gun.

You reach for a gun. So there's that...

My conclusion is based on the heavy infiltration of white supremacists in police departments across the country. I'm pretty sure they're all angry right now and expressing as much in their secret chats. They are angry and frustrated by the idea of being held accountable and forced to treat black people with dignity and respect.

The proximity to where chauvin's trial is taking place is also notable, IMO.

[NutmegYankee]

23. We can argue those choices all day long, but I believe she intended to use the taser.

Her statements and reaction indicate it was a mistake. And like I pointed out earlier, it has happened to highly trained pilots during emergencies.

[gldstwmn]

18. Yup. You can bet she is lawyered up and spirited away

with her cop hubby who has that wacko thin blue line skull photo on his Facebook page. He retired and went to work in the private sector. Her base pay was $85,600 where the average for other city employees was like $25,000.

[gldstwmn]

13. Good. Will someone take the thin blue line flag down now?