Minn. officer acquitted in shooting of Philando Castile

[pineapplemike]

Dashcam of the Philando shooting, shit escalates really fuckin' quick at 1:30. To quote the officer immediately after he shoots the guy.. "ah fuck!"

[Penner]

Dashcam of the Philando shooting, shit escalates really fuckin' quick at 1:30. To quote the officer immediately after he shoots the guy.. "ah fuck!"

The city has basically fired the officer who shot Castile:

The City of St. Anthony has concluded that the public will be best served if Officer Yanez is no longer a police officer in our city. The city intends to offer Officer Yanez a voluntary separation agreement to help him transition to another career other than being a St. Anthony officer. The terms of this agreement will be negotiated in the near future, so details are not available at this time. In the meantime, Officer Yanez will not return to active duty.

http://www.savmn.com/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=28

[jbird4049]

The big lie imho is that the job is inherently less risk free than a loggers. On paper it looks good but loggers don't have to lock up your unruly tenants do they? You take them for granted imo my friend

Ah, you're in alternative fact territory. Sorry, I stop at the border.

StA: Here's an interesting map. I wonder how it correlates to police performance?

In most of those states police pay seems to correlate with the cost of living.

[TheReal_ND]

This

[Okeefenokee]

duh

[TheReal_ND]

duh

The point is they aren't being payed to be rocket scientists. They are being payed to police. Honest work for an honest pay until it's not but rather the point is that they are in no way overcompensated at least imho.

Edit: at least not legitimately overcompensated but if what Hollywood has told me to think along with all the several dozen cases hyped up in the media, is true they are all CROOKED COPS AMD PROBABLY FASCISTS WAHHH

[Okeefenokee]

duh

The point is they aren't being payed to be rocket scientists. They are being payed to police. Honest work for an honest pay until it's not but rather the point is that they are in no way overcompensated at least imho

not to mention that graphic most likely does not include benefits.

/edit. yeah, annual mean wage does not include benefits.

[TheReal_ND]

Benefits are usually how shit pay is compensated when tax money is involved hegh

[brewster]

What's the jury's take on this one. Cop executed the dude because wounded on the ground "he might have had another gun":

Officer Heaggan-Brown and another officer were working in a residential neighborhood in Milwaukee when they approached Mr. Smith, who they suspected was involved in a drug deal. As they exited their squad car, Mr. Smith, who was armed with a handgun, darted away and ran into a yard with a chain-link fence.

When Mr. Smith reached the fence, he threw his gun over it, just as Officer Heaggan-Brown fired at him, a shot that hit Mr. Smith in his right arm.

Mr. Smith fell to the ground. Moments later, Officer Heaggan-Brown, standing several inches away, fired again, striking Mr. Smith in his chest. An official from the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office said the second shot had traveled through Mr. Smith’s heart and a lung and was “not survivable.”

The entire episode lasted about 12 seconds.

Using frame-by-frame video from the officers’ body cameras, prosecutors had argued that while the first shot fired by Officer Heaggan-Brown was reasonable, the second shot was not.

The video showed that when the officer fired the second shot, Mr. Smith no longer had a gun and was on the ground — “hands up, with no place to go,” said the prosecutor, John T. Chisholm.Officer Heaggan-Brown had no reason to fear for his life once Mr. Smith was unarmed, wounded and unable to run away, Mr. Chisholm said during his closing argument. “Shooting someone point blank when he’s on the ground is utter disregard for life,” he said.

But the defense said that Officer Heaggan-Brown was merely following police procedure when he fired a second time. Jonathan Smith, the officer’s lawyer, told jurors that officers are taught to use the “one-plus rule” — or to expect that if a person has one weapon, he might have another.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/21/us/m ... otest.html

[TheReal_ND]

What's the criminal history? Was it flagged on the computer? Did he run a check? Was there an APB with a description matching the dead suspect out at the time? Could there have been any evidence at all the cop felt threatened for his life?

Notice every time you get pulled over where the cops hands are. Why do you think that is Brewster?