Quote:Can gross negligence be moved into manslaughter with certain cases or is it just clean up and cut you can't be charged with gross negligence?

 

You would have to prove "gross negligence".  In this case, from what is known I'll speculate.  I'm guessing that the officer didn't mean to fire his weapon and didn't have the intent to injure and/or kill the subject in the matter.  The way that it looks to me, based on what we know it appears to be an accidental shooting.

 

The victim of the shooting didn't die, so there is no manslaughter case there at all.  If there were any charges brought up in the case, the most that I can come up with is simple assault which is a misdemeanor.  A case could be made for felony assault, but again intent has to be proven.

 

It's not the media in this case making this story more than what it is, it's social media.

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