Here’s the story on the charges that now former officer Kim Potter will face.
Here’s the statute.
Here’s what I view as the relevant part of the statute:
A person who causes the death of another by any of the following means is guilty of manslaughter in the second degree and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than ten years or to payment of a fine of not more than $20,000, or both:
(1) by the person's culpable negligence whereby the person creates an unreasonable risk, and consciously takes chances of causing death or great bodily harm to another; or
It goes on from there.
I think this is the right choice. I noted a couple days ago that after looking at the statutes, neither murder nor 1st degree manslaughter seemed to apply but second degree did seem to.
It is good to see the process of holding her accountable begin, and I hope it continues.