Fox: Minnesota officer who shot Daunte should have known difference between gun and Taser

Ground breaking analysis.

Ted Williams??? I cringe when that know-nothing comes on the TV.

He has added absolutely nothing to any "crime scene analysis" for the past 2 decades. He is a simpleton. I have no idea why FNC keeps putting his face on their screen.

However his 3rd grade observations are usually not entirely wrong - just pablum. I am surprised that he would fall on that side of the taser/pistol incident.

eta just read the link:

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"This is not the first incident of this nature. There are other incidences ... where an officer believes they were pulling their Taser and in fact they wound up shooting and killing somebody with their gun."

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So we have learned that there are instances of police making mistakes in highly active, vastly erratic, unpredictable situations where a criminal suddenly turns violent, attacks the police and tries to flee.

Maybe we should do away with tasers - just let it be known = "if you resist, we kill you - dead - on the spot - understand?"

I once was stopped by a constable on the outskirts of a small town in Arkansas (name of town was my surname). A tractor cutting grass on the side of the highway veered toward my lane, and instead of hitting the brakes, I veered across the yellow lane to avoid him had he continued to come onto the road. It was at the very beginning of a 'do not pass' line on the highway, but it was just a swerve like you would execute to avoid a dead pig in the road. No traffic anywhere in sight. The cop pulled me over and would not listen to my explanation. For some reason he told me to follow him back to the station. When we got there, the completed the ticket, and I asked when the case would be heard. He told me it would be no good for me to come back because he was also the Justice of the Peace and he would find me guilty, and add on cost of court, if I challenged it. I asked "Are you saying that you are the arresting officer and the judge in this case?" His reply = "if you say one more word I am going to add 'contempt of court' to the charges" - So I nodded and continued on my way.

Result? = I am still alive, and I have a good story that can be embellished to my own satisfaction for the next 60 years. well worth the $35 (approx??) cost and the last decades of life. I thought about writing to the governor or someone, but just didn't think it was worth it.

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Shouldn’t put cops lives in danger to see how they react. frick around and find out.

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I’m sorry, but a suspect attempting to flee shouldn’t automatically give the police license to execute them. This isn’t Judge Dredd.

Ummm yes he should have.

If you as a tax payer are happy with the billions being spent on arming our police since 9/11 and the results you’ve seen, you aren’t conservative.

We have watched,even small town cops, get armored vehicles, military arms, and other equipment simply because they applied for a grant.

Stop taking up for the police (state). I’m not saying they are the devil the media makes them out to be, they definitely aren’t.

But they should be held to the same level as Biden, like when you appropriately call him out.

They are one and the same. The state.

Was he pulled over for a missing tag? I haven’t been following as closely as usual because I’m burnt out.

If so, a conservative would say, the state did murder this kid. If they didn’t rob people by making them pay for a tag and then have to pay cops to enforce those tags, the state (cops) very likely wouldn’t have killed this kid.

Yes, they should know the difference. Also, criminals should know that if they fight back or run the odds of them dying skyrocket. They’ll never learn.

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attempting to flee

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You don’t know that and neither does the officer. If you recall, the capital hill police officer was killed by a dude using his car as a weapon.

Bottom line: comply, comply, comply. Fight the cops in court and not the street.

Yea, well...they don’t know what he has in his car or what he’ll do with said car when he takes off. Should he be able to drag a couple of cops down the street? Maybe cripple one of them?

What if he would have had a gun in his console? You are totally missing the point. He put their lives in danger and he died.

Fleeing from cops has always been wrong . We can rewrite all the rules for criminals if you’d like.

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Ground breaking analysis.

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This. The cop made a mistake. She would likely be the first to admit it.

But again, as with Chauvin's situation, it comes down to departmental training. This is not the first time such an accident has occurred. As with prone compression restraint, unless training and policy changes, it won't be the last.

Humans err. We make mistakes. Root cause analysis rather than individual castigation is the solution.

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We are at full idiocracy

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If you're cool with "Oops, my bad." when a cop accidentally shoots someone instead of tasing them, I agree with you.

At a minimum it's manslaughter. With all their training, it's reasonably negligent homicide. Assuming malice (which is unlikely), it's murder.