From CNN: The latest on the police shooting in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota
Name of officer who shot Daunte Wright will be released “shortly,” city manager says
From CNN’s Maureen Chowdhury
Reporters pressed Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott and City Manager Curt Boganey about why the name of the officer who shot Daunte Wright has not been released.
Mayor Elliott said it was “privileged” information at the moment since the shooting is under investigation. He did express willingness to share additional information about the female officer in question.
Earlier in the news conference, Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon said Wright was fatally shot during a traffic stop after a police officer shouted “Taser!” but fired a handgun instead of the non-lethal stun gun.
This is happening about 10 miles from the Chauvin trial.Report
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
If we can turn the argument over whether it’s anti-feminist to fire her, we’ll be in a much more fun place.
Personally, I think we should do the sexist thing.Report
Well if you want to throw gas on the fire then go ahead.Report
I’ll go back to not paying attention to the gender of the officer, then.
Do you think this could have been avoided if the training budget were increased last year?Report
Any significant police reform is going to come with retraining. Cops have been trained to fear and respond with hard ass tactics. That is one the ways out of where we are.Report
Willing to agree with this:
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They are working ever so hard to cover their collective a$$es.Report
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
I don’t think it was a mistake at all. She knew what she was drawing and why.Report
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
Supposedly this has happened 10 times over the last 20 years. That makes it crazy rare but not impossible.
Didn’t she do exactly that by yelling taser?Report
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
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
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
worth noting: even BART didn’t believe that Mehserle shot Grant by accidentReport
State of Emergency declared.
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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
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its not enough.Report
The first night of unrest was unrestful. Maybe they’ll do the right thing, whatever that is, in response to the fifth or sixth night of unrest.Report
Welp.
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