From CNN: The latest on the police shooting in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota

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  1. Jaybird says:

    This is happening about 10 miles from the Chauvin trial.Report

  2. Greginak says:

    Hmmm female officer. That will certainly increase the quality of the discourse over the negligent discharge. The only real questions are why wasn’t she already fired and what will she be charged with.Report

  3. Jaybird says:

    Willing to agree with this:

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    • Philip H in reply to Jaybird says:

      They are working ever so hard to cover their collective a$$es.Report

      • JS in reply to Philip H says:

        That’s if you believe that it was a mistake, rather than “This is the best defense I’ve got given the footage”.

        Offhand, I find it very hard to believe. They’re generally holstered opposite each other, they look AND feel nothing alike, and IIRC the training is to announce you’re using a taser (more for the sake of any fellow officers than the person about to get tased).Report

        • Philip H in reply to JS says:

          I don’t think it was a mistake at all. She knew what she was drawing and why.Report

        • Kazzy in reply to JS says:

          But if this is the best defense, it is a piss poor one.

          Again, let’s say a pharmacist wanted to kill someone and attempted to do so by giving them the wrong drug. If their “defense” was, “Whoops! Mixed ’em up!” they’d still be fired.Report

        • Dark Matter in reply to JS says:

          Supposedly this has happened 10 times over the last 20 years. That makes it crazy rare but not impossible.

          the training is to announce you’re using a taser

          Didn’t she do exactly that by yelling taser?Report

          • Kazzy in reply to Dark Matter says:

            Yes. The video supports the claim it was in error. There remain many underlying questions and legitimate outrage but this isn’t the sort of excuse that dissolves the moment you glance at the evidence.Report

            • Philip H in reply to Kazzy says:

              I own firearms. I can tell the difference between them and their respective calibers by their shape and their weight. She no doubt could too. She’s also a field training officer – which means she has enough experience to know the difference. Plus Tasers are worn on a different part of the body.

              They intend to stick to the error defense. I don’t buy it.Report

    • Dark Matter in reply to Jaybird says:

      if your pharmacist couldn’t tell an aspirin from fentanyl, it’s not just something you accept as a occupational hazard.

      An estimated 30 to 50 million prescriptions are filled incorrectly each year, said Allen Vaida of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, an organization that independently monitors pharmacy errors nationwide. That’s about 2 percent of all the over 4 billion prescriptions (Google)

      Put differently, he’s comparing a once-in-two-years exception to the median event from the pharmacy, when the reality is pharmacies mess up multiple orders of magnitude more.Report

  4. Jaybird says:

    State of Emergency declared.

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  5. Kazzy says:

    https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2021/04/12/brooklyn-center-police-bodycam-footage-daunte-wright-shooting-vpx.cnn

    This includes a segment of the body cam footage of the officer who killed him. It is graphic. Two big things stand out watching the footage and the press conference:
    1.) Her actions and reactions in the moment do give credence to the idea that she thought it was her taser.
    2.) The tone of the police chief’s press conference seems much less “circle the wagons” and “Well, the victim was no angel”-y than we’ve grown accustomed to.Report

  6. Jaybird says:

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  7. Jaybird says:

    Welp.

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