Thread by @denise_dewald

It seems like a miscarriage of justice that police officer Kim Potter, who was genuinely distraught about mistakenly killing Daunte Wright, got convicted of manslaughter, when remorseless vigilante Kyle Rittenhouse walked free.

When people make a tragic mistake on the job, we need to look at the systems that led to that mistake.

When patients get harmed because of medical errors, it generally happens because multiple failures have occurred simultaneously. We study these cases to prevent future events.

In this case:

1) Daunte Wright should never have been pulled over for the hanging air freshener. This stuff has to end.

2) Officers need improved training.

From what I saw, she didn't seem like a bad cop. She wasn't a Derek Chauvin. She had never fired her gun on duty before.

And finally:
3) We need to ask ourselves if the gun culture in this country is a big part of the problem.

Police wouldn't feel that they needed to pull out their weapons so readily if there weren't so damned many guns everywhere.

And there needs to be a redesign of tasers so that they absolutely cannot be mistaken for guns. They need to have a completely different handle.

Nurses have mistakenly put feeding solutions into IVs. The solution is to make that impossible. ctvnews.ca/group-warns-of…