Kim Potter sentenced to two years to serve 16 months.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

No link yet!

[Beachnutt]

1. and time served applies

[Floyd R. Turbo]

2. Right you are.👍🏻

[Beachnutt]

3. Daunte Wright was only 20 years old

and got pulled over for having an air freshener on his mirror...

[Floyd R. Turbo]

4. I'll likely get shit for this, but the judge is a disgrace!

[lapfog_1]

9. you shouldn't... this sentence was wrong on many levels

some lives matter, some lives don't, apparently

[Floyd R. Turbo]

13. I got grief from some here during the trial for saying her boo-hooing was bullshit. I'm paraphrasing

[Hortensis]

45. But doesn't the truth matter? Should what people WANT to believe

matter at all, even for them? Especially for them?

Is it completely coincidental that what some here "believe" demands more severe vengeance? In nicer times, might people be nicer? If there were fewer extremists given to extreme, angry reactions and taking extreme positions on everything, might notions of what constitutes justice on this thread be very different?

How about if the races were reversed, Floyd? If the black community was insisting that prosecuting her at all was lynching for being a cop while black, would that change the evidence even slightly?

(I hope everyone agrees it wouldn't make any difference at all.)

Could some be seeing this white cop as guilty for all the crimes of the white race and thus that prosecuting her for her own action alone really just 850M white people still getting away with centuries of murder?

What going on here? This is DU, not Tucker Carlson's Twitter feed. We should be passionately committed to the truth and nothing but the truth, whatever it is, messy and incomplete as we can determine it to be.

Here's some truth: The judge who weighed this at length came to believes it was a tragic accident and gave a sentence appropriate to criminal negligence, which comes on top of all the consequences that have already devastated this other life. Case closed, and for the justice system to work requires accepting ethical decisions we don't like, just as elections require accepting those imperfect results.

[Beachnutt]

10. She said it was a mistake that she didn't intentionally

shoot him with a gun so she got 16 months
Daunte Wright made a mistake by putting an air freshener on his mirror and he got death.

[BlackSkimmer]

16. He also had a warrant for choking a woman and threatening with a gun.

The air freshener was a bull shit reason for pulling him over, but he tried to run because of the warrant.

[mvd]

21. Definitely didn't deserve what he got. Very sad

I think Chauvin could have gotten even more - live without parole. I believe cops should not be treated more leniently. Here, I would have been fine with the average. The judge just didn’t seem like she wasn’t taking things seriously.

[RobertMcNamara]

42. Just to clarify

He was also pulled over for an expired registration tag decal.

They found out about his warrant after the ,pull over and proceeded with the arrest he eventually resisted, and he attempted to flee with force.

[lapfog_1]

5. the judge repeated the lie

the this POS COP "made a mistake" and was going to use a taser instead of a gun.

The COP was very experienced in using taser and gun... I don't believe she made a "mistake". I think she intended to shoot Dante for being "uppity".

16 months (14 with time served) is not enough,

[Floyd R. Turbo]

8. Damn straight!

[Beachnutt]

32. So if I am driving an 18 wheeler

and I mistaked my gas pedal for my brake and run over someone and then go cry to the judge that I am a responsible citizen and only made a mistake would I get 16 months in jail ?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

33. Fat chance!

[Hortensis]

44. Yes. Probably. If you could convince the court that it was

a tragic mistake, YES.

Yes. And that's as it should be.

One reason we have to have courts is so that mobs can't take charming murderers out for congratulatory drinks and tear accidental killers they don't like to pieces.

[mvd]

6. Better than probation

The Floyd cops deserved a high sentence and I think this judge made a case for going lower. But probation would have been not realizing the seriousness of the cop’s error.

[lapfog_1]

11. the low guidance for manslaughter (even unintentional)

is FIVE years... The state asked for SEVEN years.

She got 16 months... 1 year and 4 months, with 2 months off for time served.

[mvd]

15. Well I really think the judge didn't have..

any agenda here. The case obviously affected her. So I’m giving her some leeway in my reaction.

[Beachnutt]

20. Obviously the death of a 20 year old

man didn,'t effect her much though..

[mvd]

24. I didn't get that impression

Definitely can disagree with the decision, however.

[lapfog_1]

26. "police put their lives on the line every day"

direct quote from the judge...

only in this case, Dante did NOT have a gun, did not threaten anyone, and was pulled over for a minor traffic violation because THIS COP was showing off (aka training) a junior officer. She shot him by pulling her service revolver (kept on a different side than the taser).
The taser weighs much different than the gun. The taser is brightly colored on the barrel (unlike the gun) and the trigger has a different feel than a gun trigger.

She was the training officer.

I think she knew full well that she was using her gun.

She didn't like Dante's lack of "respect" or his attitude about being pulled over for having an air freshener attached to his rear view mirror.

She saw him as an "uppity" n***gr and wasn't going to stand for it...

[jimfields33]

35. Warrant for chocking a woman is not exactly minor.

[lapfog_1]

41. But THAT wasn't the reason for the stop

[BlackSkimmer]

43. Probably why he tried to flee however.

I’ve been stopped for an expired tag. I didn’t run.

I didn’t have any warrants on me either.

[MineralMan]

7. Just about what I expected.

Both sides will hate this sentence, I predict.

[BlackSkimmer]

12. I thought I was watching it live on HLN.

Guess not?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

14. The sentence was rendered at a couple of minutes before 9:00 pst.

[BlackSkimmer]

17. Lol, well I can stop watching.

Her lawyer made me sick with his whining.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

18. And the judge, GMAFB!

[USALiberal]

19. I guess I'm the only one who really thinks it was an accident. Nt

[Floyd R. Turbo]

23. I'm sure there are others here that agree with you. I for one won't slam you for having an opinion

counter to mine.

[mvd]

25. I do, too. But a very reckless one

There is a case that the recklessness alone could have brought it up to the average sentence.

[uponit7771]

27. Only for white people, Mahamad Moor got murder and 20 years for his "accident" but because it

... was a white women he killed and he was black he got the max sentence and it was taken back later because the prosecution overplayed their hand.

Only for white people

[madville]

29. I do too, mostly based on her reaction when it happened

She seemed extremely distraught immediately when it happened and her partner got possession of her gun so she wouldn’t commit suicide on the spot.

[mvd]

30. It was probably heat of the moment horrible error and..

at least she has shown remorse. But the cops handled it badly from the start. If I was the judge, I can’t be sure but I think I would hand down the average sentence. The judge did seem thoughtful and reasoned, however.

[Vinca]

31. I think it was an accident, too. As a young, female cop back when dinosaurs

roamed the earth, I know how fast things can go to hell in a situation and how mistakes can be made. I think the sentence she got was appropriate. It was negligence and not malice that killed that poor fellow - the polar opposite of Derek Chauvin.

[sarisataka]

36. No, I do believe it was an accident

But accidents have consequences.

[Raine]

46. I think it was a total accident too. nt

[Bettie]

22. Seems pretty light, but

about what I expected to see. Wonder if "time served" will make it so that she just gets to go free now.

[lapfog_1]

28. only 2 months behind bars

14 months in prison for 16 month sentence... with the possibility of more time off for good behavior.

Followed by 8 months of probation.

[sarisataka]

34. Link- still developing story

Potter sentenced to 2 years in Daunte Wright’s death

Former Brooklyn Center officer Kimberly Potter has been sentenced to two years (24 months) in prison in connection to the death of Daunte Wright. She will have to serve two-thirds (16 months) of that in prison before getting supervised release, and she received credit for 58 days already served.

Potter was convicted of first-degree manslaughter in December after fatally shooting Wright during an April 11, 2021 traffic stop.

“His life counted, his life mattered,” Minnesota Assistant Attorney General Matthew Frank said before Potter’s sentence was handed down Friday morning. “And that life was taken. And the law recognizes the severity of the loss of life when setting criminal penalties.”

Prosecutors pushed for the presumptive sentence, which is just over seven years, after initially seeking an upward departure. Potter’s attorneys, citing her good record, asked for probation.

https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/kimberly-potter-sentenced-2-years-in-prison-former-brooklyn-center-officer-daunte-wright/

[Floyd R. Turbo]

38. Thanks!

[fightforfreedom]

37. This was a very tough case.

I watched the video and she was out of her mind after she shot this kid. She knew she made horrible mistake. She really did not know she grabbed her pistol instead of the taser. I don't know how she could make that mistake, but she did. Is sixteen months enough?

I believe she should have gotten a little longer sentence because she was negligent and it cost someone their life. 3 to 7 sentence would have been better.

[mvd]

39. Well said

I see what the judge was saying. But I personally think gross negligence resulting in death could have gotten the average sentence.

[dsc]

40. Just dropping this here

https://www.caplantamburino.com/criminal-defense/drug-crimes/controlled-substance-crimes-penalties/

Fifth-Degree Possession Crimes

Any amount of a Schedule I, II, III, or IV drug, except 42.5 grams or less of marijuana
Attempt to acquire, possession, or control over a controlled substance through fraud or misrepresentation, using a false name, or falsely representing a physician
Penalties – Up to 5 years in prison and up to $10,000 in fines.

the above is the penalty in MN for that.

[OnlinePoker]

47. Nate the Lawyer explains the reason for this sentence

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