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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/13/us/daunte-wright-taser-gun.html

A clip of Officer Potter’s body camera video released by the Brooklyn Center Police Department shows the police trying to handcuff Mr. Wright before he lurches suddenly back into his car. The video then shows Officer Potter’s arm aiming a weapon as her voice shouts “Taser! Taser! Taser!” on the audio.

She fires one round, Mr. Wright groans in pain and Officer Potter can then be heard to cry, “Holy shit, I just shot him.”

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Constable_Savage in reply to @Stonehedge

If their training is anything like ours then at that distance you would fire two rounds, instinctively. It's drilled into you, no pun intended. So I tend to believe that she intended to Taser him but was inept and drew the wrong weapon. If she was being smart shouting Taser but intending to shoot him she would have instinctively double tapped. I was a firearms officer for 25 years and I would have to train like mad to do what she did, that badly, in that situation.
I've just re-read that and think it says what I mean. Basically she would have to be an evil genius to intentionally say one thing whilst doing another.

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