Thursday, December 9

In Chicago, the Jussie Jury's Back...

 Meanwhile in Minneapolis, what amazes me so far in the Duante Wright death / Kim Potter trial is the extent to which it all was captured on video: the shooting, the fleeing, the major-impact collision, the girlfriend being ordered out the car, the confusion, the surrounding of the Buick and finally, finally getting the 20-year-old's lifeless body out the driver's seat and starting first aid...

His mother saw the body first, via video chat on the phone, while the girlfriend was still in the car after it hit so hard the second car. Duante's body wasn't buckled... His neck whipped around like a newborn baby with no support, when the cops pulled him from the car.

The jurors are seeing all this, in addition to the stills of his lifeless body taken from the video. Enough evidence of this type, the defense argued today. We get it already.

But you wonder why Officer Potter, who knew how many people were in the vehicle and why it crashed, wasn't faster in reporting up to the scene that she had shot the man in the Buick, and done more to try and help him after the fact, at least.