Her emotional testimony on the stand was very impactful and I don’t see a jury unanimously voting to convict her for a simple accident.

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Sorry, I’ll try to get a better jury breakdown in the next trial.

Police officers are usually much more reserved and stoic on the stand and tend to defend the actions they take re: shootings but this cop did not. She basically threw herself on the mercy of the jury with many mea culpas and apologies. Her highly emotional testimony may go a long way in convincing the jury that she has been punished enough, or like you state, that she is human and just made a tragic mistake.  
Where I think you go off base is saying, or implying, she shouldn't have been charged. She committed a careless, reckless act and someone was killed as a result. And it wasn't like she was a rookie on her first day or first week. She had decades of experience and that could very well hurt her. Had they charged her with murder, you would have a better case, but the charge of manslaughter seems about right. No, this is something a jury needed to sort through.  
This may end up being a case of jury nullification though as the facts are not in dispute. I will not be surprised to see an acquittal or a hung jury, however. I just don't know how much weight the jury will give to her extraordinarily poignant testimony. It may play very well with some jurists.

Yes, Potter's testimony may have been "impactful" and could get her off but please explain to the class how the training provided to Potter was "inadequate?" Does ChicKenShit know anything about her training?  Isn't it just as likely she as an individual utterly failed under pressure? As for who ordered the prosecution, how could ANY public official not do so? It was NOT "a simple accident." It was a criminal failure under pressure to follow procedure and training.
Once again, ChicKenShit proves himself to be a rabid political hack and a....

So how anyone could think no crime was committed only proves ChicKenShit is a complete righty hack. Just like how anyone could look at the tapes from Jan. 6 and say, "Just some tourists out for a stroll through the Capitol."
You can't have an intelligent conversation with them.

Thats reasonable to you? Her hand gun was on her dominant side (right) and the Taser was on her left. In addition both guns look and feel vastly differently. You only blaming the training absolves her, and all her vast experience, to the contrary. I don't know how the jury will decide, but if it is fact based only, she is in trouble. Her hope is they base their decision on the emotion of the situation.

whether a crime was committed or not.

My longer reply is sitting in moderation, but I would contend that the stress of the situation (what you’re referring to as “emotion”) absolutely factors in to a finding of guilt or innocence.

Being a veteran and a training officer, she choke. Her crying might sway the jury..but what gets me is that she didn't call for help..she sat on the curb crying her eyes out. And not knowing her gun from a taser, how qualified was she? She'll probably get off, and this kids family will clean up on a civil suit.
So she's going to defund that police dept of that city...that's fresh.
By the way, anyone see the Edith Bunker look on her??

Most likely, but if the settlement is proportionally high then the city might be in for some...and there's no reforming that.

I don't know anything about what's involved in police weapons training, but one thing I thought about is the natural inclination to use your dominant hand/arm.  I would think training would involve acclimating yourself to use both equally, & that the gun would be paired with your dominant hand/arm.  In other words, if you're right-handed, you would shoot a gun with that hand.  But putting the training aside, I just wonder if the normal instinct to use a dominant hand/arm might've played a factor in the shooting.

I've you've ever been in a high-stress situation it's quite possible for training to fail, especially if you've never been in such a situation before. Had she, or not? A quick search didn't turn up anything.

but once the kid started to struggle and resist, it became high stress.

Once the kid (wanted on a weapons related warrant) started to struggle and resist…

Whatever Daunte Wright's family gets out of whoever in the form of settlements? The victims of his criminal past are already suing the family.  

Tell us where I said any of that garbage you spouted.

The entire panel seemed to be saying the prosecution had a tough hill to climb, but one focused on the framing of the prosecution’s argument. They basically conceded it was an accident, but have boxed themselves into a position that relies on them proving that Potter “consciously” made the mistake. All the defense has to do to obtain a not guilty verdict is convince the jury that Potter’s pistol draw was an unfortunate, tragic, unconscious reaction.