What I'm hearing as their story is that the cop was trying to go for their own taser but grabbed their gun and shot them. That's supposed to make it sound okay, somehow? Like "No he wasn't malicious, just maliciously incompetent."
Yep. Honestly making the whole thing about whether she knew it was a gun or not is the same fuzzing of the narrative and distraction that police killings consistently devolve into. It doesn't really matter if she mixed up her taser and gun because manslaughter is the baseline, a real and serious crime with an according sentence - but I guess we already know that cops don't get sentenced for that.
pretty sure the tazer shouldn't be carried anywhere near the pistol to prevent this exact thing from happening, so this cop was running around with an unsafe setup for who knows how long
What I'm hearing as their story is that the cop was trying to go for their own taser but grabbed their gun and shot them. That's supposed to make it sound okay, somehow? Like "No he wasn't malicious, just maliciously incompetent."
plus, there's a word for that, (under the ridiculous assumption that it's true), manslaughter.
Yep. Honestly making the whole thing about whether she knew it was a gun or not is the same fuzzing of the narrative and distraction that police killings consistently devolve into. It doesn't really matter if she mixed up her taser and gun because manslaughter is the baseline, a real and serious crime with an according sentence - but I guess we already know that cops don't get sentenced for that.
The only way this could have happened is if she unlocked her real gun holster the moment she pulled him over.
So for a misdemeanor warrant she was ready to kill someone from moment one.
pretty sure the tazer shouldn't be carried anywhere near the pistol to prevent this exact thing from happening, so this cop was running around with an unsafe setup for who knows how long
Tasers are carried on the opposite side as handguns nationwide.
What this policewoman did was unlock her gun holster the moment she left her car, which made her gun pull the same way as a tazer.
Normally handguns have a safety lock to prevent someone from taking your gun off you or for accidental discharge reasons. She disabled hers.