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Trump: All The ‘Vicious, Violent’ Democrats ‘Want to Do Is Put People in Jail’

Former President Trump laid into the “vicious, violent” Democrats in a Saturday statement, claiming that all they’re good at is “destroying people’s lives.”
“All the Democrats want to do is put people in jail. They are vicious, violent, and Radical Left thugs. They are destroying people’s lives, which is the only thing they are good at,” Trump wrote.
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President Donald J. Trump:
"All the Democrats want to do is put people in jail. They are vicious, violent, and Radical Left thugs. They are destroying people’s lives, which is the only thing they are good at. They couldn’t get out of Afghanistan without disgracing our… <a href="https://t.co/eSqKpLdidW">pic.twitter.com/eSqKpLdidW</a>
— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) <a href="https://twitter.com/realLizUSA/status/1472274052555419665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 18, 2021</a></blockquote>
Trump went on to list all of Biden’s policy failures, including his botched Afghanistan pullout, radical crime and police reform, and rising inflation.
“They couldn’t get out of Afghanistan without disgracing our Country,” Trump explained. “The economy and inflation are a disaster. They’re letting thugs and murderers into our Country—their DA’s, AG’s, and Dem Law Enforcement are out of control. This is what happens in communist countries and dictatorships, and they don’t think they’ll be held accountable for rigging the 2020 Presidential Election.”
“The Jan. 6 Unselect Committee is a coverup for what took place on November 3rd, and the people of our Country won’t stand for it,” he added.
Trump’s remarks come after it was revealed that Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), one of the January 6 select committee members, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.infowars.com/posts/caught-rep-adam-schiff-doctored-text-messages-in-january-6-committee/" target="_blank">doctored the text messages</a> of Republican officials to bolster the false narrative that Trump planned an “insurrection” at the Capitol.
Meanwhile, homicide rates in the U.S. have <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/12-major-us-cities-top-annual-homicide-records/story?id=81466453" target="_blank">skyrocketed</a> over the past year to all-time highs, <a href="https://slaynews.com/news/george-soros-funded-das-in-cities-with-largest-spikes-in-violent-crime/">especially</a> in blue cities, prompting some <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/after-crime-skyrockets-cities-scramble-to-refund-the-police-put-more-cops-on-the-streets/" target="_blank">Democrats to walk back</a> their radical “defund the police” initiatives.
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NY Gov. Hochul Defends COVID Mandates: ‘It’s Not That Big a Deal’

Unelected New York Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul was forced to defend vaccine and mask mandates amid fierce backlash, claiming they’re “not that big a deal.”
“We think this will avert more people getting sick, and that’s a good news story, and we do hope that everyone really comes around and realizes this is a simple, very minor, uh, intrusion, if you will, if it’s even that,” Hochul said Friday.
“All the children in the state have been wearing masks since the beginning. It’s not that big a deal. It’ll help save lives, keep people healthy, and that’s all we’re asking for. There has been some pushback, but we’re not backing down from this, we think it’s important.”
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Governor Kathy Hochul defends NY mandate policy: "It's not that big a deal. It will help save lives, keep people healthy and that's all we're asking for. So, there has been some pushback, but we're not backing down from this. We think it's important." <a href="https://t.co/OfysEQZ5xZ">pic.twitter.com/OfysEQZ5xZ</a>
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href="https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1472261880374870017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 18, 2021</a></blockquote>
If mandates aren’t that “big a deal,” then why the massive pushback by New Yorkers in the first place?
Maybe it’s because unvaccinated New Yorkers are getting arrested for simply trying to eat at Applebee’s.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BreakingNews?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BreakingNews</a> multiple protesters against mandates were just arrested at Applebee's in queens NY for trying to order food at a vaxed only restaurants <a href="https://t.co/adZ0qJybwC">pic.twitter.com/adZ0qJybwC</a>
— Leeroy Johnson (@LeeroyPress) <a href="https://twitter.com/LeeroyPress/status/1471313345013821441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2021</a></blockquote>
Or maybe because children can’t buy ice cream without presenting a vaccine passport.
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Or perhaps it’s because the U.S. government is trying to force its citizens to take an injection they don’t necessarily want so they can work and participate in society.
Hochul announced the statewide vaccine mandate requiring businesses to impose a mask policy for unvaccinated patrons last week amid a rise in mild Omicron cases, which is scheduled to run through at least Jan. 15.
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<a href="https://freeworldnews.tv/watch?id=61ba389e666e7e21ac4d2553" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">New Yorkers Now Being Arrested For Failing To Show Proof Of Vaccination</a>
 
 
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Unelected New York Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul was forced to defend vaccine and mask mandates amid fierce backlash, claiming they’re “not...

Why we need a better flu shot

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The flu vaccine is something many of us take for granted. Every year, starting in the early fall, “free flu shot available” signs start to line pharmacies and clinics. But in the US, only around <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/flu/fluvaxview/coverage-1920estimates.htm">half the population</a> actually gets the vaccine. When talking about the flu, many equate it to a terrible cold, inconvenient at worst. But annual strains of influenza are estimated to cause <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6815659/">hundreds of thousands of deaths</a> worldwide. The reality is, we’ve been living with influenza for so long that we often forget just how dangerous it can be.
The reason we need an annual vaccine for the flu in the first place: The virus is particularly <a href="https://globalhealth.duke.edu/news/why-seasonal-flu-evolves-faster-we-can-fight-it">prone to change</a>. That ability to mutate is also what makes it particularly good at causing pandemic-level threats. <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/basics/past-pandemics.html">The last four pandemics</a> before Covid-19 were caused by an influenza virus. Experts warn that <a href="http://www.emro.who.int/pandemic-epidemic-diseases/news/the-next-flu-pandemic-a-matter-of-when-not-if.html">another one is inevitable</a> and that our seasonal flu vaccine isn’t going to stop it.
For 80 years, the way we research and make our annual flu vaccine has remained the same. It’s a costly and timely process that <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/27/health/chicken-egg-flu-vaccine-intl-hnk-scli/index.html">involves predictions and chicken eggs</a>. The result is a seasonal flu vaccine that’s <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/vaccineeffect.htm">certainly good enough</a>, but we can do better. And now researchers are closer than ever to a big achievement: something like a flu vaccine that remains effective year after year, regardless of the strain. Something that could stop an outbreak before it starts; something like a universal flu vaccine.
You can find this video and all of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLXo7UDZvByw2ixzpQCufnA">Vox’s videos on YouTube</a>.
 
 
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vox Why we need a better flu shot

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Is Jeremy Strong the bad art friend?

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Is Jeremy Strong a bad art friend?
The actor, acclaimed for his Emmy-winning role as Kendall Roy, the tragic, brooding golden-boy-turned-black-sheep of the family in HBO’s drama <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/22691830/succession-season-3-hbo-review-roy-logan-kendall-shiv-roman">Succession</a>, has flown relatively under the radar as himself — until recently. Earlier this month, a well-timed <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/13/on-succession-jeremy-strong-doesnt-get-the-joke">New Yorker profile</a> of the actor went viral. In it, writer Michael Schulman portrayed the actor as mirroring his character’s intensity and self-centered focus in real life. Highlights include the time he nearly bankrupted a Yale theatre club in order to fete Al Pacino, famous friends (like Matthew McConaughey) calling Schulman for character references at Strong’s request, his stint following Daniel Day-Lewis around like a puppy, his penchant for quoting philosophers, and the repeated implication that Strong is the only Succession actor who doesn’t get that the show is a dark comedy.
The profile garnered the kind of reaction you’d expect: Social media users <a href="https://twitter.com/CarolineSiede/status/1467934539662114829">boggled</a> at Strong’s <a href="https://twitter.com/scott_tobias/status/1468967912564088837">behavior</a>, especially what Schulman depicts as his pretentious, pseudo-method-acting process, which includes everything from spontaneous script ad-libs to refusing to rehearse with his scene partners in advance. While some embraced Strong’s affectations, many online seemed to feel that Strong’s all-or-nothing personality would be <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%22jeremy%20strong%22%20%22insufferable">insufferable</a> to have to deal with on a regular basis, on-set or off, and that his behavior toward <a href="https://twitter.com/blahhhlicia/status/1468814873987538945">colleagues</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/dexterismyhero/status/1468110294312488961">was</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/journeydan/status/1467890246696247298">particularly</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/radiokeller/status/1468914236244037639">egregious</a>. The conversation was especially fierce on Twitter — as in “Jeremy Strong” trended on the platform for a full week — which is somewhat fitting, given that Succession seems to be in a constant dialogue with the kind of overtly performative viewers who are, like Kendall, in New York media and on Twitter, and obsessed with both.
But if the worst thing that anyone can say about a guy is that he’s really intense, or maybe even annoying, perhaps that’s not worth the extended social media critique that Schulman’s profile generated. The backlash raises a question: Is “acting normal” something we really want from artists? Is there really no room for eccentricity?
Following the profile, several of Strong’s friends within the industry put up messages of support, including <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CXWYaTJrRmy/">Anne Hathaway</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/jes_chastain/status/1468413489672769547">Jessica Chastain</a>, and Aaron Sorkin. None are strangers to charges of pretension. Sorkin, who directed Strong in <a href="https://www.vox.com/22363939/trial-chicago-7-aaron-sorkin-oscars-best-picture-roundtable">Trial of the Chicago 7</a>, spoke on the record to Schulman for the profile, describing Strong’s desire to be authentically tear-gassed for the role. In an open letter <a href="https://twitter.com/jes_chastain/status/1469447303350173704/">posted</a> by Chastain, however, Sorkin wrote that he regretted “help[ing] Mr. Schulman create what I believe is a distorted picture of Jeremy that asks us to roll our eyes at his acting process.” (He also clarified that Strong would never endanger anyone else on set.)
Actors and their processes have long been mocked, inside and outside of acting circles, and with various degrees of understanding. But getting into character is something that’s commonplace for every working actor, including Strong’s Succession co-stars. (See: Brian Cox’s empathy for the often-monstrous Logan Roy in <a href="https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/brian-cox-succession-series-three-interview">this recent GQ interview</a>.) Strong’s widely heralded performance in the final episode of season three may have ended the conversation when it comes to him, but it’s just one in a recent spate of public debates over the value of eccentric artists — and an increasing need to denigrate and even <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2021/9/30/22696338/pathologizing-adhd-autism-anxiety-internet-tiktok-twitter">pathologize</a> eccentricity itself.
A somewhat comical recent example of eccentric artistry comes from the culinary arts, via Floriano Pellegrino, chef and owner of the Michelin-starred restaurant Bros in Lecce, Italy. Bros became briefly notorious earlier this month after travel blogger Geraldine DeRuiter <a href="https://everywhereist.com/2021/12/bros-restaurant-lecce-we-eat-at-the-worst-michelin-starred-restaurant-ever/">made a post</a> mocking the pretentious, overpriced, and frequently inedible 27-course meal she and her friends had there.
In response, Pellegrino issued a fascinating manifesto involving different artistic depictions of horses. “Contemporary art does not provide you with answers, but offers great questions,” he <a href="https://www.today.com/food/brutal-review-michelin-starred-restaurant-bros-goes-viral-t242696">wrote to Today</a>. “Contemporary cuisine should do the same. A chef should not offer easy answers, but challenge you with interesting questions.” While some of the questions Bros evoked were certainly interesting — how does one drink citrus foam from a plaster cast of the chef’s mouth? — others were pedestrian and annoying, like why the menu didn’t accommodate vegan dieters or those with food allergies. Still, Pellegrino’s point was clear: My right to be obnoxious in the name of Art supersedes your right to have a meal that’s tidy and unsurprising. It’s not an argument you could make at most restaurants, but it’s not without merit.
Questions of eccentricity and the rights of artists were even more complicated in the extended public debate surrounding Robert Kolker’s viral New York Times Magazine article, “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/magazine/dorland-v-larson.html">Who Is the Bad Art Friend?</a>” The article — the title of which is now the stuff of legend — details, in depth, the stunning quirks and lack of self-awareness demonstrated by a writer named Dawn Dorland, who donated her kidney to a stranger and then insisted on making sure everyone around her knew about it. (Which, it turns out, is what donation experts <a href="https://www.donatelifenc.org/blog/how-inspire-others-three-tips-sharing-your-story">want you to do</a>.) Dorland gradually realized that a woman she considered a friend, Sonya Larson, had not only plagiarized a locked Facebook post Dorland had made about the donation for a short story of Larson’s own, but had also spent years mocking Dorland with a group of Boston writers Dorland once considered friends and colleagues. Larson had been a far more successful writer than Dorland, but just as Larson’s short story was receiving major attention, Dorland’s plagiarism claims torpedoed her career. Not a great look for Dorland, given that Larson, who is Asian American, had used her version of Dorland’s kidney donation to critique race and class privilege.
Initially, the public reaction seemed to be overwhelmingly in Larson’s corner. Much like Schulman’s profile of Strong, the author gives Dorland just enough rope to hang herself. Kolker later <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/20/insider/bad-art-friend-twitter.html">explained</a> that he had attempted to “present both Ms. Dorland’s and Ms. Larson’s side faithfully,” but Dorland comes across as cluelessly self-absorbed. Kolker <a href="https://twitter.com/badartfriendo/status/1446695218171023361">chose his contexts</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/dancow/status/1451050477811023873">very carefully</a> and <a href="https://greenlivvie.tumblr.com/post/665306581878046720/framing-by-the-nyt-in-bad-art-friend">omitted</a> many <a href="https://twitter.com/TinyWriterLaura/status/1448647633380069383">extenuating facts</a> on Dorland’s side, and subsequent revelations <a href="https://rottenindenmark.org/2021/10/10/identifying-the-bad-art-friend-is-easy/">complicated the narrative</a> he presented.
Increasingly, Dorland seemed to many like the victim of a hate campaign — a woman who’d had a major life event stolen from her, weaponized against her, and used to make fun of her over the course of years, all for the sin of being a little over-earnest and socially awkward. Larson’s circle mocked her for everything from <a href="https://twitter.com/skepticalspice/status/1447260872662036487">making heart signs</a> with her hands to using smug hashtags. “She just can’t stop being ... herself,” Larson <a href="https://twitter.com/skepticalspice/status/1447457117611429889/">opined</a>.
At worst, perhaps this was just an episode torn from Reddit’s <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/">Am I The Asshole</a> that deserved the judgment “Everyone Sucks Here.” What it became, however, was a referendum on the limits and value of eccentricity, in art and in life. The titular question arises when Dorland says that Larson made her feel like a “bad art friend” for not wanting her own experience used. While many writers defended Larson’s right to steal from and transform any story she ran across, in the time-honored writerly tradition, many others felt that the malice involved — seemingly a result of intolerance of Dorland’s own complicated eccentricity — made the stakes much different from a simple case of artistic inspiration.
Part of the difficulty of interpreting the people at the center of these viral profiles and blog posts is that all of them are artists. There’s a sacrosanct creative liberty that artists often demand and receive from the rest of us — the towering personality of the diva, for example. There’s an expectation that the actor who’s allowed to be histrionic and demanding, or the writer who’s allowed to be oversharing and impassioned, will ultimately create better art.
If artistic license is the idea that’s fueling this ongoing conversation, the bigger question is about people, not the things they create. “My plagiarist fiercely maintains her right to an artistic vision,” Dorland <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/530782309/Document-128-Larson-v-Perry-Dorland-Bad-Art-Friend">wrote</a> at one point. “But don’t we bankrupt our art of its value if we don’t treat our human subjects with empathy?”
In an era where <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/8/3/16035100/personality-quizzes-fake-hogwarts-meyers-briggs-mbti-astrology-zodiac">personality tests</a> from Hogwarts houses to Myers-Briggs types are all the rage, personalities that can’t be easily labeled — that don’t fit neatly into well-understood, orderly boxes — may receive less grace than others who do. Ironically, even as society shifts toward much more nuanced understandings of neurodivergent brains, disordered personalities, and social anxieties, we sometimes fail to put that understanding into practice when confronted with the complex personalities of actual people.
Increasingly, particularly on the internet, one of the worst things you can be is “<a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/21575707/tiktok-cringe">cringe</a>” — to be so awkward, un-self-aware, over-earnest, passionate, or guileless that you inadvertently become a target of bullying for personality traits that in effect harm no one. Not only has “<a href="https://www.newuniversity.org/2019/03/22/cringe-culture-is-just-bullying-for-adults/">cringe culture</a>” become de rigueur on many parts of the internet, but the group experience involved in bullying or mocking anyone who happens to get categorized as cringe becomes justification for the mocking and bullying to continue. That seems to be what happened in the case of Sonya Larson’s group chat: As one brave friend eventually <a href="https://twitter.com/BeckyLTuch/status/1448317780462379008">confessed</a>, “When you enter a groupthink mentality where you are willing to dehumanize someone, you stop seeing them as a person.”
The assumption the rest of us tend to make in order to justify attacking the eccentrics in our midst is that they don’t know how they come across. Certainly that’s how Schulman portrays Strong — unaware that there’s a joke and that he’s the brunt of it. Perhaps that’s not the case, though. Strong, Dorland, and Pellegrino each seem to have some idea of how they’re being perceived, and to choose, despite the risk of increased mockery and pain, to continue being themselves, at their most extra and obnoxious.
Making this choice is a rite of passage for many of us — for the theater kids hamming it up, the fangirls shrieking too loudly at concerts, the excited nerds geeking out about obscure subjects, and on and on. The choice to embrace effusive displays of sincere feeling will always bring the risk of vilification. Perhaps when the next viral profile drops, we might push past the knee-jerk mockery, recognize the capacity for eccentricity in ourselves, and extend a little kindness.
 
 
source <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/22837624/jeremy-strong-new-yorker-bad-art-friend-dawn-dorland">https://www.vox.com/culture/22837624/jeremy-strong-new-yorker-bad-art-friend-dawn-dorland</a>

vox Is Jeremy Strong the bad art friend?

Is Jeremy Strong a bad art friend? The actor, acclaimed for his Emmy-winning role as Kendall Roy, the tragic, brooding golden-boy-turned-b...

Man Gets 5 Years In Prison For Assaulting Police Officers In US Capitol Attack

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Washington:
A Donald Trump supporter was sentenced to five years in prison for assaulting police officers during the attack on the US Capitol, the harshest punishment yet handed down in the investigation into the January 6 violence.
Robert Scott Palmer, 54, was seen in videos and photos wearing an American flag jacket decorated with pro-Trump patches and a hat reading "Florida for Trump" as he threw boards, a fire extinguisher and other objects at police outside the Capitol.
He had tried to enter the Capitol but was ultimately pushed back by pepper spray deployed by security officials.
After that he continued to throw things at officers, until he was hit by a rubber bullet.
Federal judge Tanya Chutkan rejected Palmer's arguments for leniency of a troubled childhood and a handwritten apology that said that he and others had been duped into attacking the Congress by the former president, whom he called "tyrannical" and "desperate to hold on to power."
"I realize that we meaning Trump supporters had been lied to," he wrote.
Prosecutors pointed out that even after his October 4 guilty plea, Palmer continued to defend his actions, labelling police the aggressors on a fundraising website page he set up.
"Palmer purposefully joined a large group of rioters with the specific intent of interfering with the nation's electoral process," the prosecutors told the court in a sentencing memo.
"Palmer's violence was in pursuit of his political goal of subverting a democratic election and the peaceful transition of power."
The previous stiffest sentence in the Capitol attack was 41 months, given to two men who were charged with obstructing an official proceeding but were not accused of assaulting law enforcement.
More than 700 people have been charged in the attack, most of them for minor offenses like illegally entering the Capitol.
But several dozen face assault and deadly weapons charges as well as conspiracy, which could lead to heavy sentences.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
 
 
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"It Went Chaotic": US Ex-Policewoman Tearfully Testifies About Killing Black Man

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Daunte Wright's death triggered several nights of protests and unrest in Brooklyn Center
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Washington:
A US former police officer on trial for the death of a young African-American man wept in court Friday as she described how a routine traffic stop descended swiftly into chaos.
Kim Potter, 49, is charged with first degree manslaughter over the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright, 20, in Brooklyn Center, a suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota, in April this year.
She claims the shooting was an accident, saying she mistakenly grabbed her gun instead of her Taser.
"We were struggling, we were trying to keep them from driving away. And then it just went chaotic, I remember yelling 'Taser Taser Taser.' And nothing happens, then he told me I shot him," Potter said, bursting into tears.
She said the moments that followed were largely a blank.
"They have an ambulance for me and I don't know why. And then I went, then I was at the station. I don't remember a lot of things afterwards," she said.
On Sunday, April 11, 2021, the white policewoman was patrolling with a colleague who decided to look up the driver of a white Buick that had committed a minor traffic violation.
After realizing that the driver was the subject of an arrest warrant, the police officers decided to arrest him. Potter described that as a potentially dangerous situation.
"Sometimes there's guns in the car. Sometimes there's uncooperative people, you don't know who you're stopping," she told the court.
Wright, who was unarmed, resisted being handcuffed and restarted his car to try to flee. Potter then drew what she said she thought was her Taser.
On a recording of the scene, Potter can be heard shouting "Taser" several times, before shooting with her gun and fatally wounding Wright.
The incident came during the trial of white policeman Derek Chauvin who had asphyxiated George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020 by kneeling on his neck for some nine minutes.
Floyd's death sparked nationwide protests against racism and police brutality.
Wright's death also triggered several nights of protests and unrest in Brooklyn Center before Potter's own arrest calmed tensions.
Potter's lawyer, Paul Engh, argued that Wright's death was a result of human error and the stress that his client was under, maintaining that she was attempting to protect a fellow officer as Wright tried to drive off.
But for prosecutor Erin Eldridge, Wright died because of Potter's reckless handling of her weapon and the negligence of an officer with 26 years on the force.
Ben Crump, the lawyer for Wright's family, said in a statement that Potter's testimony showed that "Daunte Wright's killing at Potter's hands was absolutely preventable."
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