Law Enforcement or a Bully with a Gun?

If mistake, can you imagine intense agony & hurt inside Kim Potter ? (26 years of putting her life on the line being blotted by shooting mistake)

If murder (intentional killing), praying for Psalm 51 experience.

🙏 Praying & crying for all affected by killing of Daunte Wright. (Daddy can't come home affects familiy, relatives, & friends plus ones rioting along with those hurt by riot actions and Kim Potter). Praying for Holy God's Love to be experienced ❤ (may include prison time for Kim Potter)

How many ordinary gun carrying Christians also carry a taser so would have to choose what to use ? (especially when struggling with a physically stronger person)

🙏 Praying for every person to experience God's Holy Love ❤ , includes individual chosing what to really, really, really Love the most.

Thankful to see The Image of God in each person. Every person is Special. God Loves every one. Does Holy God like our sin choices ? No. God Loves Us. Imagining every person clothed in God's Holy garments helps my sin desires to flee & helps me pray with Holy God for every one.

Keep Smiilng 😊

Getting shot with a service weapon rather than a Taser is not among the "bad things" that "typically happen" to unarmed drivers who don't "comply" with officers. In fact, given that when compared with the Glock service revolver used by the Brooklyn Center Police Department, the Taser device is a) significantly lighter, b) noticeably different in design, c) VERY differently colored (see still-frame image below from the video of the incident - the taser seen in the image is on another officer's body), and d) by policy, to be worn on the non-dominant hand side of the officer's body, it's hard to blame anyone other than the officer for Mr. Wright's death.

The Glock is heavier, grey/gun metal in color, and employs a trigger safety, while the Taser is lighter, bright yellow in color, and has no safety. Mr. Wright did not die because he resisted the officers. He died because an officer fired her service weapon at him instead of the Taser device. Was it an accident? I think so. But it was also an act of gross and reckless negligence on her part. She had every reason to know she didn't have her Taser in her hand, yet shot anyway. She must be held accountable.

A law enforcement officer who so badly handles the "pressure" of an unarmed citizen's resistance that she confuses a Taser device for a Glock should not be on a police force, and the training methods of the force on which she serves should be reviewed and revised.

Do you contend that the pressure which that 26 year veteran officer experienced was so great that it's understandable she didn't notice the weight, feel, and color differences between the Glock and the Taser? If so, what kind of professional training/experience/aptitude do you think she would have needed before you would not have understood her failure to notice those differences?

And you ignored every point I made and question I asked in my previous post.

Black men at fault for their own demise? (Congrats on your deployment of such a pleasant way to diminish the unpleasantness of getting killed by law enforcement.) Here, YOU, as am I, are one who has never been in this situation: Young black men, knowing what happened to George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Freddie Gray, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice (who at age 12, playing with a perfectly legal toy gun in a public park had all of TWO SECONDS to be "at fault for his own demise"), and many, many others, understandably respond with fear and suspicion.

Consider Caron Nazario, the Army second lieutenant whom Virginia police recently pepper sprayed because he wouldn't leave his vehicle. The man was wearing his fatigues, had his hands in full view and firmly planted on the steering wheel, and calmly told the officers that he was afraid to exit the vehicle. STILL they drew weapons and pepper sprayed him multiple times. All because the officers failed to notice the very legal but temporary license tag on his vehicle. Young black men who see THAT happening to other young black men - even those dressed in the uniforms of their country - have every reason to feel fear and resistance when they're stopped by law enforcement. Theirs are experiences with law enforcement white folks such as I never have to deal with.

People of all races and nationalities resist in encounters with police. But the vast majority without getting shot or maced. Why are African-American people so disproportionately the victims of violent resolutions to resistance?

Now that I have dealt with your 99% contention (a stat for which you provide no evidence, I should note), please deal directly with the issues and questions I raised:

• A law enforcement officer who so badly handles the "pressure" of an unarmed citizen's resistance that she confuses a Taser device for a Glock should not be on a police force, and the training methods of the force on which she serves should be reviewed and revised.
• Do you contend that the pressure which that 26 year veteran officer experienced was so great that it's understandable she didn't notice the weight, feel, and color differences between the Glock and the Taser? If so, what kind of professional training/experience/aptitude do you think she would have needed before you would not have understood her failure to notice those differences?

One other question: You have seen the same video I saw. Exactly what did George Floyd do to be at "fault" for the pressure law enforcement officers applied to his neck, back, and shoulder areas for nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds as lay prone on the ground and handcuffed behind his back? Please be direct and specific.

Cut the crap, more white men are killed by police then black men.

And yet again you evade every point I made and every question I asked. So ironic that you immediately pointed out how I had "ignored" what you called the "main point" of one of your previous posts, but you haven't even acknowledged the existence of any of the points I've made in three subsequent responses. Priceless.

And more white men are killed by police than black men? Some basic statistics are useful here: Assume that five of the apples currently in storage are rotten, and that ten of the pears in storage are rotten. If the question is, which fruit has more rotten samples, the answer is pears, of course. BUT, if the question is, in which collection of fruit is rotting a bigger problem, the answer is we can't say. Why not? Because we don't know how many total apples and pears there are.

• If there are 25 total apples, five rotten ones means the rotten fruit rate among the apples is 20%. You might think that's high, but if there were 100 total pears, then ten rotten ones would mean the rotten fruit rate among the pears would be just 10%. So in which fruit is rotting a bigger issue, the collection with the most rotting fruit, or the collection with the highest rotting fruit rate?
• When you tell me that more whites than blacks are killed by police, you're only telling me one part of the story. You need also to tell me how many total whites and blacks there are so that I can know whether the rate at which whites are killed by police is the same, higher, or lower than the rate at which blacks are killed. It turns out that blacks are killed by police at a rate more than 2-1/2 times higher than are whites, and unarmed blacks are killed by police at a rate that is more than three times higher than are unarmed whites.

Surely you don't believe it's sufficient to compare the absolute number of deaths of blacks and whites at the hands of police in the U.S. when the black community in the U.S. is less than 1/4 the size of the nation's white community, do you? Please tell me that you accept the need to compare death rates, not just absolute numbers, when comparing communities of significantly different populations.

As for all my points and questions that you've "ignored" in this thread, after many years and literally dozens of posts in which you ignored/evaded/failed to mention the questions I asked you, I've grown to expect that you won't answer me directly, and in most cases won't even hint at the questions I asked, so I won't post them again. Suffice it to say, you and I both know why you don't answer.

That is also assuming the white population commits the same rate of crime as the black population.