recorded the shooting, with Potter heard saying, “Taser, Taser, Taser” before she fired, followed by, “I grabbed the wrong gun.”
Officers can choose how they want to position their Tasers in their duty belts, so that they have the option of drawing it from across their body with their dominant hand, or they can choose to draw it with their nondominant hand. Potter had her Taser positioned in a “straight draw” position on her left, so she would draw it with her left hand.“The only weapon she draws with her right hand is her gun, not her Taser,” Eldridge said.
Engh said they’ll hear that Potter made an “action error,” the sort in which someone does something while meaning to do something else, such as writing the previous year on a check out of habit, or typing an old password into a computer. He also compared them with errors made under stress by experienced pilots or surgeons.
Lewinski, who has testified on behalf of police, has said officers sometimes perform the direct opposite of their intended actions under stress — that their actions “slip” and are “captured” by a stronger response. He notes that officers train far more often on drawing and firing their handguns than they do on using their stun guns.“There’s no science behind it,” said Geoffrey Alpert, a criminology professor at the University of South Carolina and an expert on police use of force.
How about raise your children not to be thugs.
I once shot a cop with my .357 magnum. I thought I was using my toy cap pistol. Oops.
If Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted, why should an officer who made a 'mistake', not be as well?
Once daunte drives off isn't the car considered a deadly weapon? Then isnt lethal force justified?
in the new video they show her grabbing her gun first then saying tazer. her instinct is to go for her gun. police need improved training. 20yr vet of the force and a trainer of other cops. there should be higher standards for police. accident but guilty of negligent homicide.