This woman has been WRONGED! She made a terrible mistake and was remorseful, even suicidal, immediately afterwards. All on tape and all heartfelt, raw, and sincere.

I've seen MANY videos of a driver accidentally putting their car in drive instead of reverse and plowing into a store. I've been driving for decades and have never done that and question how that can happen, but mistakes happen! Fatigue? Prescription drugs? Going through divorce/stressful time and the mind is just "off"? Who know, but it happens.

If you put your car in drive instead of reverse and accidentally killed someone, after your remorse/suicidal thoughts/tears, what would you feel should be YOUR sentence?

Never before have I felt moved to send a prisoner money or a visit but I have in her case. Her sentence is far far too much for what happened. Excellent career officer, zero racism in her past, gave her adult life to serving her community at great risk. She F'd up, yes. Big time. But there should be some leniency here for an accident vs. a racist act which this clearly was NOT.

To Mr. Guy,

Interesting.
D4F spells Daunte as Daute; like calling a guy with a last name of Quill .., as Kill.

Now you justify Potter's shootout as "putting a car on drive" and-- her remorse, heartfelt, raw and sincere as grounds to lighten her sentence. Why not? A pickaxe .., she mistook for her plastic toy.

It is ancient knowledge here in India that in moments of crisis, deep seated prejudices erupt. Racism, gender and so on; erupt. A black man when considered a dangerous threat; readily loses his features; he has no personality; just black. Chauvin's actions rose from prejudices he had kept in control till that one day when it broke lose.

Then there are moments of 'perceived crisis'; where the threat is not loss of one's life; but of one's prestige and place in society. Here again deep seated prejudices surface - they don't necessarily erupt and swamp but present themselves as a choice. The decision to kill and cover it under accident was one such spot on decision.

Again, my views are based solely on two separate bodycam evidences and not on the trial. The videos do not need careful analyses; just commonsense. The entire jury exhausted all options before arriving to the 'guilty' verdict.

For all it's worth, Potter may be left out on Probation after a year. It hardly matters. It does not bring Daunte to life.

1) Daunte Wright had an open warrant for his arrest related to an aggravated armed robbery attempt when he was killed according to court records.

2) Daunte Wright had previously been charged with first-degree aggravated robbery, fleeing from police, and possession of a handgun without a permit.

3) Daunte Wright was resisting arrest when he was killed.
4) Daunte Wright was a criminal, not an innocent boy scout.

Daunte Wright should be alive today and he isn't dead just because of the actions of Kimberly Potter, he is dead because of his own actions when he was shot. IMO Kimberly Potter rightly faced punishment for her actions, some "mistakes" are punishable. But it can't be ignored that if Duante Wright would have complied with the police he wouldn't have been shot. It also can't be ignored that Kimberly Potter had never fired her gun before that day while on patrol.

Duante Wright had determined his "place in society" with his OWN conduct in society....his "place in society" wasn't predetermined.
We all determine our place in society regardless of our race, religion, color etc.

If you had not taken a long vacation you may have noticed some of us are having a conversation here wherein your points are already covered and we were getting to the finer points that determine outcomes.

BINGO! When did this country turn from personal responsibility for your life and actions to blaming others and victimhood? Our country is suffering big time because of it. Every criminal now is, for some bizarre reason, felt sorry for. I swear everything is upside down now and makes no sense whatsoever.