Posted on 06/18/2017 8:54:29 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
I have to write about Philando Castile, the 32-year-old black man who was shot and killed by a Minnesota police officer last July. I have to compose myself, sit at this laptop and write something profound about another black life taken by a police officer, another officer found not guilty for killing a black person.
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Huh?
I was answering the young lady’s question.
Please take YOUR agenda back to DU
I do not know if you are telling the truth, but if you are, he chose unwisely.
The American justice system is certainly imperfect, but it’s the best we have got. I will live with the jury’s decision, even if Mr Castle, as you imply, was shot in error.
Cops have a terribly difficult job. They should not go to jail if they make honest mistakes.
Move to Chicago or New Orleans and get away from those honky cops
Julia Craven where is the justice for blacks killing blacks??????????????
“Just out of curiosity, because none of the news pieces cover this part.....what was the traffic stop all about in the first place?”
- why, don’t you follow the news? ... the cop only stopped him so he could shoot an affican american! ‘
Cos all cops are just racists wid a badge!
Because we never see marches and protests and riots when a black kills another black...
Baltimore city begs to differ.
Well, plus Lois Lerner, and Eric Holder, and Susan Rice, and Loretta Lynch, and Debbie Washername Shultz, and Donna Braziel, and Al Sharptongue, and a host of others, and last but not least...his own bad self...
Barack Mmm mmm mmm...Hussein...Obama.
There’s no justice in America for having to listen to the incessant whining of BLM over cops shooting armed thugs in the process of a crime and with long records.
You made that up. He had a rastafarian doo like the robbery suspect. Questioning the cops reasons for the stop aside. Reaching for anything but the steering wheel when a cop pointing a gun at you is yelling keep your hands on the wheel is decidedly bad for your health. Especially after announcing you have a gun. At that point your skin color has little bearing as his finger is on the trigger, and bullets are color blind.
The world is a better place without Philando Castile.
Oh my God you creep. I wish he were still alive and you were dead. You are disgusting. This guy did NOTHING you jerk.
You made that up. He had a rastafarian doo like the robbery suspect. Questioning the cops reasons for the stop aside. Reaching for anything but the steering wheel when a cop pointing a gun at you is yelling keep your hands on the wheel is decidedly bad for your health. Especially after announcing you have a gun. At that point your skin color has little bearing as his finger is on the trigger, and bullets are color blind.
Like Baltimore brown a stupid thug kid wanna be, mothers boy friend a blood, trys to take officers gun, we will soon find out more about the Innocent black man pulled over for a broken tail light. Remember the first picture painted sticks
There is if they follow the orders of the police. Otherwise, they might just get shot.
There are facts and then there is the picture painted by the press. I suspect the the author and the jury based their decisions on wholly different facts. Heck, if all I’d heard was this press picture, I’d convict him.
Not his view, but your strawman.
It’s not justice they want, it’s revenge.
>>They “looked like” suspects in a robbery, then he informed the cop he had a licensed gun, when asked to produce papers he reached to the papers, cop shot him. <<
From the StarTribune in MN:
“Defense attorneys argued that Castile was culpably negligent in the shooting because he volunteered that he possessed a gun without disclosing that he had a permit to carry it, that he reached for it instead of keeping his hands visible, and that he was high on marijuana, rendering him incapable of following Yanez’s order not to reach for the gun. Yanez testified last week that he fired because he feared for his life.
“A gun was recovered from Castile’s right front shorts pocket as medics and police prepared to move him onto a backboard. Castile had a permit to carry the handgun.”
That’s the nice thing about a jury trial. The jury gets to hear both sides. He was stopped for a tail light. If he looked like a robbery suspect, that would heighten the officer’s tension. According to the above report, Castile did not inform Yanez that he had a permit to carry, but reached for something instead of following instructions to keep his hands on the wheel. As reported, he did have a gun in his pocket. He was also high on marijuana, adding to the mix. What could go wrong?
Oh, and the black jurors on the panel were apparently not among the two holdouts against acquittal.
I’ve paid no attention to this case, but somehow I find it an optimistic note that the Twin Cities isn’t being consumed by rage right now. I’m not so sure that would have been the case if President Obama were still in office. In fact, I’m not so sure it would have even been the case prior to the shooting at the Congressional ball practice last week. Maybe people are finally starting to decide it’s all gone too far the past couple of years?
Too bad you weren’t on this cop’s jury.
Basically a “my race, right or wrong” attitude
Wow! When did you stop beating your wife?
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