re: Rekieta has his next trial to cover... Kim Potter trial (guilty on both counts)

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This sound a LOT like the Fruitvale Station case where the transit cop went for a taser and accidentally grabbed his gun instead.


The breakdown of that case covered a number of reasons why it happened, with one of the big deals being that a taser with a pistol grip shouldn’t have been issued since the cop couldn’t tell the difference between it and an actual pistol when reaching for it.

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I'm curious what the defense is going to push in this case. The suspect was certainly acting like he needed more than a little hands on. Hard to say whether a gun was justified or not. But the fact she said "I thought I had my taser" on camera isn't good. In the end, she didn't shoot some college kid on his way to drop off canned goods at the local shelter. We didn't lose a real contributor to society.