Posted on 01/04/2022 2:24:45 AM PST by Kaslin
Comparing the Kim Potter and Alec Baldwin cases is a powerful illustration of the missing element in our criminal justice system. Prosecutors are granted broad discretion in who they charge, so that they may consider the totality of circumstances and provide something that the literal interpretation of laws can’t -- justice. But the Potter and Baldwin cases show just how far astray from that goal our systems have wandered.
The key events in both cases are remarkably similar. In both cases a human being was accidentally shot and killed with a firearm. The facts in both cases are undisputed. Both Kim Potter and Alec Baldwin shot and killed another person. In neither case did the shooters intend to kill anyone. But the totality of circumstances would indicate completely different treatments needed for actual “justice.” The circumstances leading up to and following those incidents reveal just how corrupt our criminal justice system has become.
On April 11, 2021, Kim Potter was one of several police officers attempting to arrest Daunte Wright on an outstanding warrant for a firearms violation. He was also alleged to be in violation of a restraining order. Wright attempted to flee the scene in his car with a female passenger -- otherwise known as a hostage. Officers wrestled with Wright to prevent him from fleeing. Officer Potter eventually pulled her service weapon and shot and killed Daunte Wright. She immediately admitted that she had made a mistake, as she had intended to tase him instead.
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Alec Baldwin is an actor/producer who was given a loaded weapon in error as a prop on a film set.
While Baldwin is definitely civilly and possibly criminally responsible as producer for the incredibly sloppy weapons handling on that set, as an actor he was given a prop and told it was safe.
Kim Potter was a sworn and trained police officer, she is expected to be able to identify the weapon she is selecting and to not mistake a pistol for a taser.
She is held to a higher standard, and rightly so.
Potter is held to a higher standard, and the hypocrisy bleeds through the Baldwin murder case as enacted.
I like the article as presented.
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