The Minnesota police officer who fatally shot Philando Castile during a traffic stop was acquitted on all charges by a jury Friday, a decision that came nearly a year after the encounter was partially streamed online to a rapt nation in the midst of a painful reckoning over shootings by law enforcement.
Officer Jeronimo Yanez pulled Castile’s car over in Falcon Heights, a suburb near Minneapolis and St. Paul, and the officer later said he thought Castile matched the description of a suspect in a robbery. The stop quickly escalated.
Yanez fired into the car, saying later he thought Castile was going for his gun, a claim Castile’s girlfriend, sitting in the seat next to him, disputed. She began streaming the aftermath of the shooting on Facebook Live.
Police officers are seldom charged for fatal on-duty shootings and convictions are even less common. Castile’s death came at a time of intense scrutiny of fatal police-involved shootings, and the viral video of his final moments spurred heated demonstrations that continued for weeks.
I suppose we'll have a new round of riots to discuss in the near future.
I can't recall much about this case, but this is one the few BLM cause célèbre where the guy got utterly fucked over, even though he tried to de-escalate the situation. This wasn't like a Michael Brown situation or that pedophile that BLM painted a mural of in Louisiana. This dude calmly told the officer he was armed and had a permit, then got shot while reaching for his license. His girlfriend and her daughter were in the car too iirc. The cop probably thought he was reaching for his gun. I don't know the whole story, but I feel bad for that dude.
heydaralon wrote:I can't recall much about this case, but this is one the few BLM cause célèbre where the guy got utterly fucked over, even though he tried to de-escalate the situation.
The worse one in my book was the social worker lying spread eagle on the ground next a retard playing with a truck shouting to the cops that the kid is harmless. Fortunately he wasn't killed. When the cop who shot him was asked why, he said "I don't know".
We are only accustomed to dealing with like twenty online personas at a time so when we only have about ten people some people have to be strawmanned in order to advance our same relative go nowhere nonsense positions. -TheReal_ND
GrumpyCatFace wrote:Stop hiring psychos and pussies to be our police protection. Make it a job worth having again, instead of cheap labor.
Or just keep hoping they don't pull you over.
They're not cheap around here!!! Though most of the problem myy city has with our cops (besides not actually doing their jobs and running a legal moonlighting/protection racket) is drunk driving. Drunk cops hitting people is a regular thing.
We are only accustomed to dealing with like twenty online personas at a time so when we only have about ten people some people have to be strawmanned in order to advance our same relative go nowhere nonsense positions. -TheReal_ND
GrumpyCatFace wrote:Stop hiring psychos and pussies to be our police protection. Make it a job worth having again, instead of cheap labor.
Or just keep hoping they don't pull you over.
They're not cheap around here!!! Though most of the problem myy city has with our cops (besides not actually doing their jobs and running a legal moonlighting/protection racket) is drunk driving. Drunk cops hitting people is a regular thing.
GrumpyCatFace wrote:
As irritating as that is, how does it compare to the local median overall?
That $90k IS the local median! That's for all of NJ. NYC, Long island and Westchester are similar.
We are only accustomed to dealing with like twenty online personas at a time so when we only have about ten people some people have to be strawmanned in order to advance our same relative go nowhere nonsense positions. -TheReal_ND
