Kim Potter Guilty

[mandrill]

Maybe; maybe not. I for one don't know that for certain.

I guess since Kim Potter can't tell the difference between her service weapon and a taser, nobody will know.

I think part of her defense was: "Yeah, I couldn't tell the difference between my service weapon and a taser, but I was justified in using lethal force because Daunte Wright was going to speed away in his car and drag my partner with him or run over my partner."

You could argue that Sammy Yatim was a thug and was destined for that outcome as well; and that James Forcillo was justified in killing him based on his perception of the situation and that he felt threatened by the knife that Yatim was holding.

The verdict in that case was interesting: Forcillo is not guilty of second degree murder, but is guilty of attempted murder. According to Wikipedia it "was the only time an on-duty Ontario officer was charged and convicted in the death of a person since the inception of the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) in 1990. "

How many police killings have there been in Toronto, compared with an equivalent size US city?......

Forcillo served the standard 1/3 of his sentence in jail. I take some encouragement from the fact that he was the first Toronto cop to be convicted of any homicide-related charge in relation to a shooting on duty. I think the verdict was a compromise in the jury room and at least it avoided a hung jury. I am also guessing that Forcillo was civilly sued for a chunk of change - although the Police Association might well have a group insurance plan to cover that.

 

[oil&gas]

If there is a police's song for the U.S. police force this one
should be it.

 

[poopypants]

24 months, will serve 16.

 

[Fun For All]

24 months, will serve 16.

I’d say she got a good deal...all things considering.

 

[Robert Mugabe]

I think she got railroaded.

 

[Robert Mugabe]

Mind you. This cop was cleared.

 

[Leimonis]

It is hard to believe that she could mistake the taser for a gun. For 26 years she had the taser on her left hip and the gun on the right hip.

Yeah she surely did it on purpose. She must have had a secret plan to change her life around and go to jail for a while.