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The Dershow

Charging Former Officer Kim Potter with Manslaughter Violates the Rule of Law and the Constitution

The Dershow

Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media

News, Politics

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

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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