Comments by "cchris874" (@cchris874) on "Former officer Kim Potter charged with 2nd-degree manslaughter" video.

Tremendous pressure to avoid a violent reaction from the race-based hysteria that has overcome the US recently. What prosecutor could possibly resist this pressure? I don't think she deserves this.
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Don't know that it's fair. An unintentional mistake under pressure can happen to anyone of us at any time. That's not, for me at least, what manslaughter cases are about.
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Samba Jallow: I think your view lacks compassion and humanity. We need to make a distinction between manslaughter and murder at the very least. Unintentional error can happen to any one of us at any time, including you. The intolerance factor is what I am objecting too.
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@v2kcarver367 I think we owe every defendant a reasonable benefit of the doubt. Why not assume the best rather than the worst. She made a mistake under pressure. Note how we (US) don't jail commercial airline pilots when they crash their planes due to unintentional mistakes under pressure. I think it's a more humane approach.
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Or the fact this was unintentional and debatable as manslaughter. Human beings never were and never will be perfect. What will you say when it's your turn to screw up?
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@anthonykahukiwa7993 You've never heard of, say, a drunk driver victim? ????????????? It happens every day of the week. I don't know how you can read the news and not be familiar with negligent death. It's all around us.
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@anthonykahukiwa7993 Good point. That said, my argument is that even the most basic errors can overtake anyone at anytime. Research has shown that if the stress factor is great enough, it has a tendency to narrow one's focus, without even being aware of it. I follow commercial aviation accidents, for example. Experienced pilots can and have made basic mistakes that have killed people. Look up the Tenerife disaster, for example. Hunting accidents are another candidate for these types of errors. It turns out it is mainly the most experienced hunters who are 100% sure they have correctly identified their target that are most likely to be the ones who accidentally kill their fellow hunters, or innocent bystanders. So my personal take is, let's extend the benefit of doubt to our fellow humans. Can you guarantee you might not screw up when it's your turn to be overtaken by a stressful situation?
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@anthonykahukiwa7993 Look how similar they are: https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-j7nzh/product_images/uploaded_images/handgun-vs-taser-gun-best-for-self-defense.jpg -Also, under stress you may not even look but instinctively grab your left pocket, instead of your right pocket. -Two Lufthansa pilots once took off from London Heathrow because they were 100% sure they had received take off clearance, when in fact they had received an altered departure clearance instead. Please also google this from an article on hunting accidents: "Heuristics operate outside of our conscious awareness and are utilised even more in stressful or emotionally- charged situations. However, they can also make us susceptible to cognitive biases which may lead us astray—we underestimate the impact heuristics will have on our decisions. Attempts to manage heuristics and cognitive biases are often futile because we normally cannot detect them when they occur." This passage is key to understanding how seemingly impossible errors can occur.
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@anthonykahukiwa7993 As to the Floyd case, I haven't followed it enough to say whether he deserves the entire 60 years he could face. But I don't see any way out of a guilty verdict he received. The expert police and medical testimony was very powerful in this case. Beyond reasonable doubt. Over a period of 9 minutes you would be hard pressed to argue stress!!
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"couldn’t tell the difference between a gun and a taser." Even basic error can occur to anyone of us at any time. I remember my brain playing tricks on me, like the time it processed my red light for the other cars. There is no absolute immunity from this aspect of human nature. So I say, give her the benefit of the doubt and don't find her guilty. Otherwise we are saying being human is a punishable crime.
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Some sanity and compassion. Thank you.
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@BenTV91 I think you lack both a sense of proportion, and also a degree of compassion. Life in prison for a mistake that anyone of us could potentially have made? That's intolerant. It goes against basic decency.
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@SunflowerSunflower-lc3kw I think the system needs an overhaul. But it's pure speculation to say she did it deliberately. Youtube, as usual, brings out the very worst in people.
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@Vibrinspiration The comment wasn't stupid. A single spelling error is not worthy of serious discussion.
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@jordancharm6780 For an unintentional mistake that anyone of us could make at any time? It amounts to prosecuting human nature.
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