Hi, this is Alan Dershow. It's the Dershow on my audio rendition of my podcast, which

I hope you'll continue to listen. We will be continuing to focus on protest growing

out of police shootings, particularly protests against white police officers who have shot

and killed young African Americans, men and women. And today we're focusing on a case

where a police officer named Nicholas Reardon shot and killed a 16-year-old black young

woman named Makaya Bryant will discuss the circumstances of the case and of the shooting.

LeBron James, Russia Judgment, and issued a tweet which fortunately he then withdrew

to his credit saying, you're next to the police officer without really focusing on what

the facts of the case were. Well, I don't know whether he'll be next or whether Kim Potter

will be next. She's the 27-year veteran in Brooklyn Center who thought she was pulling

out a taser. She ate a taser, and then accidentally, tragically, mistakenly shot and killed a young

black man. And so the question is whether she committed any crime at all, generally under

American law and under Minnesota law, it is not a crime to make a mistake. It is a crime

to knowingly do something that creates the risk or is negligent, but I don't see any evidence

in Kim Potter's case of a crime. But let's take a look at the Nicholas Reardon case and Makaya

Bryant. If you watched NBC News, you would not have gotten the whole picture because on NBC News,

they omitted a substantial portion of the 9-11 call, the substantial portion that was omitted

on NBC News had a young woman calling hysterically a 9-1-1. It's these grown girls trying to stab us

get here now. But on NBC, they left out the reference to stabbing. They did refer in the report

to a knife being wielded. But forget about NBC News, let's get to the facts as they really

occurred. So Officer Reardon gets to the scene of the crime and he sees a young woman, he doesn't

know very much about her, doesn't know her age, pushing down another woman, and then approaching,

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