Another show trial has begun.
Kimberly Potter, the Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police officer who accidentally shot Daunte Wright as he resisted police officers during a traffic stop, has been arrested and charged with second-degree manslaughter.
Body-camera footage of the encounter clearly shows two things: Wright resisted officers who had pulled him over; the shooting was accidental.
But Potter is not alone in suffering the consequences of her mistake. No public official who disputes the narrative — that yet another “racist” white cop shot yet another “innocent” black man — is safe from being sacrificed to Black Lives Matter to appease its rage.
On Monday, the city council voted to fire the city manager after he said the cop would get due process.
Arrested and Booked
A 26-year veteran, Potter was “booked into the Hennepin County Jail on probable cause 2nd Degree Manslaughter,” the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension announced, after which the Washington County prosecutor filed charges.
Unsurprisingly, shakedown artist Ben Crump, who sued Kenosha cop Rusten Sheskey in late March on behalf of domestic abuser Jacob Blake, is already working to ensure Potter can’t get a fair trial.
Crump falsely said that Potter deliberately shot Wright to death, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported. If true, then she murdered him.
“While we appreciate that the district attorney is pursuing justice for Daunte, no conviction can give the Wright family their loved one back,” Crump said:
This was no accident. This was an intentional, deliberate, and unlawful use of force. Driving while Black continues to result in a death sentence. A 26-year veteran of the force knows the difference between a Taser and a firearm.
Potter faces 10 years in prison and/or a $20,000 fine.
City Manager Fired, Council Member Feared BLM Strike
Officials might have charged Potter because they feared more riots from BLM and Antifa terrorists. That, it seems, is why the City Council fired 15-year manager Curt Boganey during an emergency session on Monday.
Boganey’s mistake was suggesting that Potter, like anyone else, deserved a fair hearing before losing her job. Potter resigned on Tuesday morning.
“All employees working for the city of Brooklyn Center are entitled to due process with respect to discipline,” Boganey said during a news conference on Monday. “This employee will receive due process and that’s really all that I can say today.”
“What message are we sending here in Brooklyn Center to the rest of the world about the evaluation of black life?” someone asked Boganey. “Do you support the termination of this type of an officer.”
Boganey said he understood those sentiments, but didn’t back down:
If I were to answer that question, I’d be contradicting what I said a moment ago — which is to say that all employees are entitled to due process and after that due process, discipline will be determined. If I were to say anything else, I would actually be contradicting the idea of due process.
Boganey “was doing a great job,” Council Member Kris Lawrence-Anderson said, the Star-Tribune reported. But that didn’t matter. “I didn’t want repercussions at a personal level,” she said.
In other words, as the newspaper put it, “she feared for her property and retaliation by protestors if she had voted to keep him.”
Boganey is black.
Accidental Shooting
As The New American reported on Tuesday, body camera footage and Potter’s remarks belie Crump’s incendiary, irresponsible claim that she purposely killed Wright, whom police stopped for an expired license.
Wright resisted officers as they tried to handcuff him, then jumped back in his car in a stupid attempt to flee.
“I’ll tase you!” Officer Kimberly Potter shouted. “I’ll tase you!”
“Taser, Taser, Taser,” she shouted again, before she pulled the trigger on her firearm.
“Holy sh*t,” she said moments later. “I just shot him.”
Police chief Tim Gannon, who also resigned on Tuesday, said the shooting was accidental.
