Quote Originally Posted by boost View Post
Well, this is why we have all different degrees of murder and manslaughter. It would appear that Kim Potter, the cop who shot Dante Wright, really did have a tragically consequential brain fart. When you think of the number of cops out there with a gun and a tazer, the number of interactions with the public these cops have, if we put our probability intuition caps on, it's not shocking that these errors would show up.
Yup, I don't doubt it was inevitable any more than it's inevitable that if enough people drive cars that have a brake and gas pedal next to each other, some of them are going to press the wrong one at the wrong time.

A shame really, but should be easy to minimise the chance of it happening to a cop from an ergonomic pov. Just make the taser have a completely different grip, or colour it orange or w/e you need to do to make sure it's obvious to someone whether something their holding is a taser or a gun.