It makes it very likely that Castile was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, and resembled someone the police were looking for.
Castile didn't know he looked like a robbery suspect, and wasn't careful in digging out his ID. The police officer didn't know he was a CCW permit holder, and jumped to the wrong conclusion when Castile told him he had a gun.
All the rest of the "proof" is nothing more than innuendo and character assassination. Castile was not a robbery suspect -- he resembled the suspect. He wasn't a criminal with a long record -- he was a terrible driver with lots of traffic offenses.
And it beggars belief to say that a guy who has worked at a public school for over a decade (after passing the background check) and has never even been arrested for a serious offense in 15 years of adulthood is a "gang member".
Finally: as I've posted elsewhere, the commission of a violent crime by a CHL/CCW holder is so rare in the US that it's statistically zero.
Yes.
If all the innuendos are true, including he pulled his gun on the cop, then it’s a good shoot.
I don’t have any information, and no one else does either, to know that’s what happened. We will have to wait, which is hard when emotions are high.
For example, public school employees are arrested for odd crimes every week. He actually could be an armed robber. He was associated with gang members, or wannabe gangster. Multiple traffic offenses could be just the surface of a chronic criminal.
We will have to wait to see if he was a bad guy, just good enough to get a permit, or a real bad guy.
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OK, so what if he did have a CCW permit? What difference would that make?
It makes it very likely that Castile was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, and resembled someone the police were looking for.
Castile didn’t know he looked like a robbery suspect, and wasn’t careful in digging out his ID. The police officer didn’t know he was a CCW permit holder, and jumped to the wrong conclusion when Castile told him he had a gun.
All the rest of the “proof” is nothing more than innuendo and character assassination. Castile was not a robbery suspect — he resembled the suspect. He wasn’t a criminal with a long record — he was a terrible driver with lots of traffic offenses.
And it beggars belief to say that a guy who has worked at a public school for over a decade (after passing the background check) and has never even been arrested for a serious offense in 15 years of adulthood is a “gang member”.
Finally: as I’ve posted elsewhere, the commission of a violent crime by a CHL/CCW holder is so rare in the US that it’s statistically zero.
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THANK YOU. Outstanding way to lay out the facts known (as of now), I had to post it again.
F* unbelievable the LIBERAL mental gymnastics some of those here will go through to ‘make their case’.
Think the only question I have: If he DID have a permit (shouldn’t be on his person when he’s carrying, correct?), how long before the cops can ‘release’ the evidence to show yes/no??
THEN we know whether it was ‘good shoot’ or ‘bad cop’ (and, IMO, if the cop had his weapon drawn, he should be calling for back-up and/or having him get out of the vehicle).
D@mn, I can’t wait ‘til body-cams on cops are the norm...no more of this kind of sh!t.
Thanks