Thursday, December 23, 2021

He Was Walking, Talking Human Debris

 Before Daunte Wright was shot and killed by Minnesota police officer Kim Potter, he terrorized his local neighborhood for several years, leaving victims and their families with a lifetime's worth of trauma and suffering.

Through court records and interviews with the victims, DailyMail.com can exclusively report that Wright had led a life of crime and violence before his death, having been involved in the shooting of two of his school friends, a home burglary, and had previously assaulted and robbed a young woman at gunpoint.  

Wright, 20, was shot dead on April 11 after officer Kim Potter reached for her gun instead of her taser during a botched traffic stop in Brooklyn Center. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10329753/Daunte-Wright-victims-tell-violent-past.html 

Ms. Potter was a 26 year veteran of the police force with nary a black mark on her record. I was trying to put myself in her place just as I did with the young man in Colorado who received a 110 year jail sentence for causing a crash killing four even though it was just that--an accident. With a split second to make a decision how many of us would have made a choice that was the wrong one? My guess is around 100%

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