The video clearly shows a distraught officer, almost near tears, making what is called an excited utterance, “I told him not to touch it!”
Meaning,the weapon was exposed at one point or the officer was told that he had a weapon, and the officer gave him instructions not to touch it.
Castile either did or the officer thought he was making a overt move to do so.
The officer’s action will be judge based upon well established case law, Graham v. Conner.
To summarize, was the officer’s action reasonably objective in light of the circumstances known to them at the time and would a similar officer with similar training and experience act in a similar fashion.
A traffic stop is not a mere contact where you are free to leave or ignore instructions from the officer. There is enough sufficient doubt that this officer will never be indicted.
His career is over though, no matter what and the Castile estate is going to get a couple million dollar settlement.
Babymama already getting her advance through the Gofundme.
Maybe not
Megan and Mark Fuhrman were just on with breaking news....
.....it would seem the ‘girlfriend’ has been found to have lied
Imagine that
The officer was responding to Reynolds comment that the deceased told the officer he had a CW permit. So I would imagine it's possible the officer already knew he had a gun before he ever saw it. I really hope this was not an accidental discharge by the officer which triggered the officer to shoot multiple times right after being told by the deceased he had a CW, while at the same time seeing Castile still moving his hand towards his ID as he was requested to produce.
Just thinking out loud here.