Case, it is a training issue, right? here is someone who served on the force for many years. sergeant dorsey who mistook a firearm for a taser. they are built to be different. right? different colors. worn on different sides of the body consistently. different weights. does this get to a training issue as well do you think? listen, i don t buy the whole i didn t hwanknow what i had in hand for a minute. we train and we practice looking down the barrel of a gun so we line up our sites. in the four or five seconds she is yelling, taser, taser, taser, she is looking down the barrel of that gun as we are trained to do as she has done for 26 years like i did for 20. and to think that she looked down that barrel of that gun and didn t realize it wasn t yellow, it wasn t a taser, the weight was different, and then fired it anyway, is really inconceivable. one other issue. this had been a question, caroline, was the testimony on
Welcome to the lead. i m jim sciutto in for jake tapper. we begin with breaking news, former minnesota police officer kim potter found guilty of manslaughter after roughly 27 hours of jury deliberations. potter shot and killed 20-year-old daunte wright during a traffic stop last april. she mistook her firearm for a taser. it was all caught on body cam video. taser taser taser! i shot him! oh, my god! oh, my god! so chilling to see those images. potter s sentencing is scheduled for february.
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Right. these reforms, these steps that are happening as we examine these cases aren t happening fast enough and like you said, too little, too late. there are a lot of questions out there from friends, relatives, neighbors. why wasn t non-lethal force used in this case. why wasn t a taser used. why weren t any other de-escalation techniques used. and were these deaths of a 19-year-old college student and 55-year-old mother, were these deaths preventible. thank you very much, sarah. appreciate it. this weekend, the washington post published a report showing the police fatally shot nearly 1,000 people this year in the united states. some take-aways from their investigation which the post says was researched over the past 12 months, that mental illness played a role in the quarter of the shootings. one in ten of the victims was unarmed. indictments of police officers tripled this year over the average of the previous nine years. want to bring in wesley lowery, covering law enforce
New hampshire. you have those so-called establishment candidate, whether it s jeb bush or chris christie being championed by the union leader or marco rubio picking up endorsements. right now they are all getting 10%, 12% each. they are all basically tied far back. the main beneficiary of that is donald trump. certainly we will see with the clock ticking. five weeks left before iowa, then trey gowdy campaigning with marco rubio expected tomorrow. a lot to watch. steve and robert, to both of you, we will certainly talk later on. thank you. donald trump s remarks about the former president is the focus of our pulse question today. so this is what we are asking you and hope you weigh in. have donald trump s comments on bill clinton gone too far? the pulse is live. pulse.msnbc.com. cast your vote. we will check back in those results and see how they change in the next couple hours. still to come, outrage over the latest deadly police involved shooting in chicago. a 55-year-old grandm