Charging Former Officer Kim Potter with Manslaughter Violates the Rule of Law and the Constitution
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Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media
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🗓️ 15 April 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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The decision to charge Potter with manslaughter violates the terms of the statute which require the state to prove that a defendant “consciously takes chances of causing death.” The evidence fails to show that. The rule of the mob has prevailed over the rule of law.
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| 0:00.0 | A former officer, Kim Potter, has been wrongly charged with manslaughter in the death of |
| 0:07.3 | Dante Wright. |
| 0:08.3 | I'm going to fight against that injustice. |
| 0:10.9 | It's wrong. |
| 0:11.9 | The manslaughter statute simply doesn't apply. |
| 0:14.8 | It requires that the defendant consciously take chances of causing death. |
| 0:19.9 | That's not what happened in this case, and this is a case of the rule of the mob rather |
| 0:25.8 | than the rule of law. |
| 0:30.8 | The decision by Minnesota prosecutors to charge a former police officer, Kim Potter, |
| 0:37.6 | with manslaughter in the death of Dante Wright is an abuse of justice. |
| 0:43.6 | It's a shameful misuse of prosecutorial discretion, a violation of the rule of law, and a substitution |
| 0:54.0 | of mob rule for criminal justice rule. |
| 0:59.8 | It was a tragedy, what happened. |
| 1:02.4 | The police officer thought she was firing a non-lethal taser at somebody who had arrest |
| 1:09.6 | warrant out for him for arm robbery or attempted arm robbery. |
| 1:14.3 | He was trying to escape get behind the wheel of the car, which might have endangered the |
| 1:19.1 | officers and other pedestrians. |
| 1:21.8 | He might have been reaching for a gun. |
| 1:24.1 | The decision to taste him was not an unreasonable decision. |
| 1:28.7 | He then made a terrible mistake and pulled out the wrong weapon and shot him and killed |
| 1:32.6 | him. |
| 1:33.6 | It's a mistake. |
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