Commentary If you were surprised by the firing of Curt Boganey, the City Manager of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, merely for saying that the police officer who shot a wanted criminal was entitled to due process, you haven’t been paying attention. Kim Potter, the officer in question, says she thought she had reached for her Taser rather than her pistol (she even shouted “Taser!”) when Daunte Wright, 20, wanted on felony weapons charges, attempted to flee from a traffic stop. Wright, a black man, was killed in the incident. Maybe it was, as she claims, an accident, and maybe it wasn’t. It sounds like an accident to me, but I admit there must be some doubt. It would once, therefore, have been a matter of course to say that a fair trial should decide the truth of the matter. Now, that Ms. Potter has been charged with second degree manslaughter in …
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