What's going on?

What's going on?

Thank you for tuning in to another episode of the

Bakari sellers podcast. Today we'll be interviewing my sister and friend and

host of the readout Joy Ann Reed. But before we get the joy we've got to talk about this Dante

Wright case. As you may now know Brooklyn Center Minnesota officer Kim Potter has been

charged with second-degree manslaughter.

Under Minnesota law second-degree manslaughter applies when there's someone

who has created a quote unreasonable risk that person kills someone through

their own negligence.

The maximum punishment in this case would be 10 years in prison, though notably,

sentencing guidelines call for about four years for someone with no criminal history like

Officer Potter. So what does this mean in plain language?

Well this means that the prosecutors believe that the accident narrative sticks and it's one they believe can stick before jury. Now I imagine some folks want to know why no murder charge was made and the reason why there is no murder charge is because it requires a premeditation or a depraved mind that demonstrates a total

disregard for human life. That's what we have with Derek Show him. In this case

though, what we have is a fucked- split second decision that falls squarely in the manslaughter which is what you use when a death is caused by someone's negligence, which in this case is the negligence associated with apparently thinking your gun was a taser.

Now look, I know many of y'all think it's bullshit, but you charge what can stick and what you can get a guilty verdict on,

and even then we've got to get a jury, largely

made of a white folk, to not give a police officer

who says something was an accident, the benefit of the doubt.

And if I'm being honest, my suggestion here is to keep expectations low and play that the family has a good lawyer for the civil suit shout out to Ben Crump and they get paid because the likelihood that Officer Potter will actually go to jail, even on manslaughter, is slim to none.

So what can we do?

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