Philando Castile

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[John Galt]

i was expecting a hung jury, however i thought there would be like 2 holdouts for not guilty, i didn't expect 12 to reach acquittal. i went to hide my women up in the cold north through a boat-only access point in case of rioting but i think only a bunch of idiots closed an interstate

but basically if an officer is in fear for his life he can be found not guilty. castille was armed so you can't say for sure it wasn't how he felt. i think the law needs to hold police to higher standard though

if an officer says "don't reach for it" i would stop reaching for whatever it is you are reaching for. i dunno what the hell it is with some people that just continue to not listen to officers and then get shot and then we have to talk about race relations in this country. that said, why would someone who wanted to kill a cop say "i need to tell you officer, i have a gun" and THEN get it. the cop should not have reacted that way. he should not have fired. i don't even think he should have brought the gun out, but perhaps that would have been okay. he starts screaming instructions AFTER the gunfire. he got the order of things to do messed up

he's off the force now, and won't be a cop anywhere. i hope instead of rotting in hell he becomes a productive member of society outside of professions where he has the power of life and death over people

the witnesses for the prosecution really didn't do any favors. they explained how they were driving around high on drugs with a child in the backseat and a gun in the car and whatnot (not to mention, 2 broken tail lights, that is all very unsafe). like... the prosecution f**k up bad if you ask me. i listened to the guy in charge talk about how proud he was of them and how they followed the process and how proud he was of that -- after they didn't follow the process and never got a grand jury indictment in the first place.

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The cop was negligent to the extreme. You can see the shock in his partner, who literally jumps away and didn't even reach for his gun, despite having a clear and unobstructed view of what went on. Meanwhile you can hear the officer say he had no idea where the gun was but wait what we meant by that was that he saw the gun even though it was in Castiles pocket when they pulled him out.

Meanwhile Officer f**k is screaming like a child, and is clearly undergoing a panic attack. He is yelling don't move while also telling the child to get out. He is saying I need your license and registration while also screaming don't move. A simple "put your hands on the wheel as I open your door so you can step out" would have sufficed.

Being high and having broken tail lights are irrelevant to this officers reaction, although apparently he thought about that and figured "Damn this kid smokes weed around his child, he must be about to kill me" while screaming conflicting directions like a little girl.

I hope this cops suffers regular nightmares for the rest of his life, never finds a job, and has to live on the streets for ten years. He can serve his sentence that way. What a f**k wimp.

[The Comrade]

If he hadn't told the cop he had a gun he'd be alive. By that I mean the cop was so poorly trained and psychologically fragile that a legal gun owner sent him into a panic instantly.

[Kane]

For all the shit you have to go through to become police officer today it seems like politics (knowing somebody on the inside) can just about do anything. You can get chummy with them and it seems like they'll hire you on if you appear to be a good guy. They'll overlook lots - psych evals are easily manipulated and often geared towards a specific type of character which IMO leaves them open to a lot of discretion.

I just keep seeing these videos and wonder wtf is going on.

[John Galt]

cops are generally pricks before they became cops; it's why they became a cop

we should really be considering why a cop doing traffic stops needs to have a firearm on him. i think the cop should have access for the firearm but it should be a request he has to make back to dispatch to be approved. the split second reaction should be for a taser or spray or baton, you know, non lethal. will some cops die? sure. like 150 or so die in the line of duty every year which is remarkably low considering during prohibition it was double that. but we've got about 1000 shooting deaths a year with cops being the triggerman. even if they are bad people, even if they deserve it... cops should be working to limit the amount of times they fire at people.

"to protect and serve"

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Officer fired 7 times into a car with a child and wife in it killing him. I don't see why an officer who was just told by an honest person he had a gun couldn't of handled himself in a better manner.

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