re: #111 Targetpractice

The footage on Youtube does include the audio, which has the female cop warn the kid he’s going to be tased, then does the standard “taser, taser, taser” warning before firing the single shot. Only then does she seem to realize that she’d pulled her Glock, as her first comments after the car pulled away was her blurting out that she’d just shot him in a shocked tone.

That she only fired a single shot, when in most such scenarios cops are trained to keep firing their pistol until the “threat” has been “neutralized” does support the idea that she thought she was holding her taser when she fired.

God damn it. Which undoubtedly means she’ll be let off on any involuntary manslaughter charges, if they even get brought. She’ll be placed on administrative leave, go through retraining, and be right back on the beat in a month.

Edited to add: I’ll admit, I feel sorry for her right now. Assuming that the context is all correct, this was a fatal mistake on her part, and she doesn’t deserve to be vilified like Chauvin’s cold and intentional actions. But she will be, by some. However, I also don’t feel she should just be let off the hook because it was just a mistake. A man is dead because of a mistake. That should have consequences. Maybe that would convince our police departments to focus harder on how to stop their officers from shooting and killing people.