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Should there not be legislation by States or the Federal Government to preclude this in the future? Perhaps amend each manslaughter statute such that any death resulting from actions taken by a police officer acting in the capacity of a police officer is exempted from designation as manslaughter? It feels like this would allow for malicious acts - think Derek Chauvin - to be prosecuted, but in all cases "honest mistakes" of police officers could not be prosecuted as manslaughter.

I am but a lowly beancounter who, in his younger life, spent a few years in the military. There I learned just enough to know that in very tense rapidly evolving situations people make simply unaccountable errors in judgement. No reasonable person, in general, and no reasonable police officer, in particular, could consider such errors to be crimes.

We should, morally, and must, practically, give police officers the benefit of the doubt - for the safety of our kids.

Thank you.

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Dear Professor….we need your brilliance and balanced approach in support Officer Potter in a legal manner..please consider getting actively involved in her case so justice can be done…thank you

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I haven’t been asked.

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