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Federalist: Acquittal Verdict In The Philando Castile Case Is An Abomination
Posted on 6/19/17 at 10:00 am
Posted on 6/19/17 at 10:00 am
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We need more of this kind of truth telling.
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Philando Castile is dead, and he’s dead because Yanez killed him for no good reason. This is not a hard nut to crack. We should not be afraid to prosecute and convict law enforcement officers for unjustly killing innocent people. The police, good as they can be, are not above the law. Nobody is.
We need more of this kind of truth telling.
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Posted on 6/19/17 at 10:02 am to tigerinDC09
You're obsessing over this verdict. Seek help.
Posted on 6/19/17 at 10:02 am to tigerinDC09
Agreed.
Posted on 6/19/17 at 10:02 am to tigerinDC09
I really wonder what kind of circumstances it would take to convict a cop these days.
Posted on 6/19/17 at 10:04 am to REG861
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I really wonder what kind of circumstances it would take to convict a cop these days.
Posted on 6/19/17 at 10:04 am to REG861
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I really wonder what kind of circumstances it would take to convict a cop these days.
Like the Walter Scott shooting
This post was edited on 6/19/17 at 10:22 am
Posted on 6/19/17 at 10:05 am to Scruffy
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Agreed.
Posted on 6/19/17 at 10:08 am to tigerinDC09
If there was any time that the officer absolutely deserved to be prosecuted for killing a civilian, it was this case, and the DA's dropped the ball big time.
Posted on 6/19/17 at 10:10 am to REG861
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I really wonder what kind of circumstances it would take to convict a cop these days.
That newborn baby in the backseat refused to comply with my commands, was screaming and had what I thought to be a weapon in its hand. I feared for my life so I had to neutralize the target.
Even with this story, it wouldn't surprise me to see a jury not convict a cop in this hypothetical.
Posted on 6/19/17 at 10:11 am to tigerinDC09
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But that didn’t happen, for the simple reason that we have a queer aversion to convicting police officers when they quite obviously break the law.
this bootlicking is the problem. it's societal and general (as in, not related to any particular intersectionality)
Posted on 6/19/17 at 10:12 am to SCLibertarian
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That newborn baby in the backseat refused to comply with my commands, was screaming and had what I thought to be a weapon in its hand. I feared for my life so I had to neutralize the target.
Not far off...
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Former Marksville deputy marshal Derrick Stafford was sentenced to 40 years in prison Friday, a week after an Avoyelles Parish jury found the 33-year-old former policeman guilty in the fatal shooting of a 6-year-old boy and the wounding of the boy's father.
But yea, it takes the negligent death of a kid.
Posted on 6/19/17 at 10:13 am to tigerinDC09
Can anybody give me the unbiased cop narrative of why he had to shoot?
Posted on 6/19/17 at 10:14 am to tigerinDC09
Everyone should be disturbed by this.
If you can't admit this was problematic, you're neither liberal or conservative. Your authoritarian.
If you can't admit this was problematic, you're neither liberal or conservative. Your authoritarian.
Posted on 6/19/17 at 10:15 am to Stingray
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Can anybody give me the unbiased cop narrative of why he had to shoot?
Castile appeared high and was not following commands at the speed the cop required.
Apparently that's a death sentence in America in 2017 if you're black.
Posted on 6/19/17 at 10:15 am to BamaAtl
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Apparently that's a death sentence in America in 2017 if you're black.
stop
Posted on 6/19/17 at 10:16 am to tigerinDC09
It is amazing. Makes you wonder if there was anything Castile could have done to avoid being killed?
Tell the cop you have a concealed carry: get shot.
Don't tell the cop you have a concealed carry: cop finds it, get shot.
Honestly, I'm surprised there aren't more people killed. We've militarized our police forces, dropped them into a War on Drugs and a War on Terror, and turned them loose on one of the most economically and culturally diverse populations in the world.
Tell the cop you have a concealed carry: get shot.
Don't tell the cop you have a concealed carry: cop finds it, get shot.
Honestly, I'm surprised there aren't more people killed. We've militarized our police forces, dropped them into a War on Drugs and a War on Terror, and turned them loose on one of the most economically and culturally diverse populations in the world.
Posted on 6/19/17 at 10:16 am to REG861
Indisputable video evidence like the Charleston case of shooting a guy running away from a traffic stop and shooting him in the back....unfortunately.
This was bad all around and I tend to side with the Castille family on this. You basically had a guy killed by a cop for essentially making sure that when the cop tossed his car he did not get the shite beat out of him when they found his LEGAL firearm.
Trust me, if Castille had not tried to inform that he had a concealed carry permit the cops would have searched his car found the firearm, the police would have drawn their weapons and gotten real rough with him until later on the find his concealed carry permit. Please don't think cops are angels. Of course he informed them went to show from his wallet and got killed for it .
I really do wonder if it would have been different if it were a middle aged white man.
This was bad all around and I tend to side with the Castille family on this. You basically had a guy killed by a cop for essentially making sure that when the cop tossed his car he did not get the shite beat out of him when they found his LEGAL firearm.
Trust me, if Castille had not tried to inform that he had a concealed carry permit the cops would have searched his car found the firearm, the police would have drawn their weapons and gotten real rough with him until later on the find his concealed carry permit. Please don't think cops are angels. Of course he informed them went to show from his wallet and got killed for it .
I really do wonder if it would have been different if it were a middle aged white man.
Posted on 6/19/17 at 10:16 am to REG861
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I really wonder what kind of circumstances it would take to convict a cop these days.
These terrible results are moving the problem in the right direction.
We have a cultural problem that we actually want cops shooting "bad guys" and if the bad guy is a black male (who we all know are guilty of something) then all the better.
Posted on 6/19/17 at 10:16 am to tigerinDC09
I agree with you, but this was a jury trial and he was found innocent. Juries make crazy decisions all the time, often benefitting and freeing known criminals.
This wasn't a situation of a DA not pressing charges or a friendly judge looking the other way.
Our system needs a lot of changes, but jury trials are the best we have at this time. What are suggesting should have been done differently?
Posted on 6/19/17 at 10:17 am to BamaAtl
As long as this remains a racial issue police brutality won't stop. The problem isn't race, it's the militarization of our police force.
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