How could a gun be mistaken for a taser? There have been at least 16 incidents of 'weapon confusion' since 2001.
LAPPL News Watch
April 14, 2021
When
Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police officer Kim Potter allegedly mistook
her service weapon for a stun gun and fatally shot an unarmed Black
motorist Sunday, it was at least the 16th such “weapons confusion”
incident in the United States since 2001. And the victim, Daunte Wright,
was at least the fourth person to have died as a result, according to
data compiled by the website FatalEncounters.org and University of
Colorado professor Paul Taylor, who tracks such cases.
These types of
incidents are rare, experts say, although no government agency tracks
the use of Taser-like devices nationwide so it’s impossible to say with
certainty how many times it has occurred.
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