Clay Jones for December 26, 2021

The jury did not agree.

Rittenhouse scored higher on the crying score and won the admiration of a former President. Kim Potter realizes if that former President were to be re-elected she’d get pardoned, but that’s a long shot . . . so to speak. . ./S

I think Officer Potter was sincere in her grief over her mistake—both for her victim and herself. However, anyone—from a confused teen to a police officer—who picks up a loaded firearm is assuming the power to kill. A car can also be a deadly weapon, but that’s not its sole purpose.

A car can skid. A trigger is a decision.

American justice.. the envy of the world.

In another era not too far distant, each verdict would likely have gone the other way.

That creepy Kid is being treated like a GOP celebrity…he’s killed two people and walked free….what’s wrong with the justice in America?

Potter doesn’t deserve to be jailed! The kid was a felon, and a criminal…what’s wrong with the justice in America?

I’m not generally in favor of incarceration. There are probably times when it’s necessary, but most of the time it does more harm than good. In this situation, I think the jury got the decision right—her actions were criminally negligent—but I don’t see the good it will do to lock her up. She is not a danger to society now that she isn’t a police officer. In general people who are not dangerous should not be in prison.

I see Killer Kyle is holding up a sign with the number of his IQ on it….

I wonder what score crying Hillary would of got when she read her inauguration speech recently?

And another Reich wing troll makes a completely out of context and moronic comment by reaching far enough up his butthole to tickle his tonsils. Stretch Armstrong couldn’t have made a reach any further than that one.

Hey! Why is there political stuff on Boxing Day? That’s just wrong. Ooooh, I’m so upset.

Clay, can’t you just give us some respite, on our most treasured day? Such a meanie.

I really don’t think this is fair. Unlike many cops in this situation, she owned up to what she did from the start. She never used the – I feared for my life – excuse. Her defense was that she grabbed the wrong weapon by mistake. She seemed genuinely devastated by her action, from the start.

None of that excuses her. Manslaughter was the appropriate charge, and she earned the consequences. Comparing her to Mr. Ritenhouse is off the mark.

Clay still doesn’t get it; her crime was being a Women. A man would have never been convicted.

If you make a satire, of a satire … doesn’t that become a serious comment? Hmmm.

Kyle Rittenhouse, innocent since day one had every right to defend himself. Kim Potter, over two decades of experience in law enforcement, should had known the difference of what a gun is, and what a taser is. Kim Potter was guilty since day one of murder. Each verdict was justified and properly served.

The training officers program in Minneapolis area needs some serious review. Potter was training a rookie, she had 20+ years experience which should have been enough to have her immediately be able to tell the difference between a gun and a taser. If she couldn’t automatically tell the difference (lack of practice and self-training) then she didn’t belong as a training officer.

And Chauvin should never have been a training officer with his history of violence.

Republican judges

The Rittenhouse Verdict was a textbook case of a Judge-Influenced Mistrial. The verdict needs to be voided due to judicial jury tampering and a new trial held, in the very district that Rittenhouse committed his cold-blooded murder of unarmed people who were absolutely no threat to him whatsoever, with an illegal gun that he had no right to have.

One of the disturbing ironies about this case is that if Potter has intentionally pulled her firearm and killed right she would likely not have been charged and enjoyed qualified immunity in civil court.