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Officer Yanez Found Not Guilty On All Counts In Castiles Death
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Hell that not even a jury of his peers
Chie Satonaka
Member
No lies detected.
Rumblebones
Banned
I have no words for this.
celljean89
Neo Member
Yes agreed, every encounter with cops is scary as fuck for me. Sometimes I feel like I'm about to have panic attack when I encounter a cop. It don't even matter where I am at, or how I dress, or even how I act. Even if I just shuck and jive to the cops, it's gamble.
Alligatorjandro
Banned
Fuck police
I feel like I must have missed something about this case (was there body cam footage or something of the whole event? or just the cellphone video of post-shooting?), but I feel not guilty on all counts seems a little crazy to me.
But these cases are generally a "whos side of the story does the jury believe more" which in this case was the cop vs the passenger. And generally, one is going to believe the cops statements about the situation because they are a cop and supposed to uphold the law.
Jesus christ...
But these cases are generally a "whos side of the story does the jury believe more" which in this case was the cop vs the passenger. And generally, one is going to believe the cops statements about the situation because they are a cop and supposed to uphold the law.
Jesus christ...
"What happens when instead of becoming enraged and shocked every time a Black person is killed in the United States, we recognize Black death as a predictable and constitutive aspect of this democracy?
What will happen then if instead of demanding justice we recognize (or at least consider) that the very notion of justice ... produces and requires Black exclusion and death as normative?"
Joy James & Joāo Costa Vargas, "Refusing Blackness-as-Victimization: Trayvon Martin and the Black Cyborgs"
Forever relevant
What will happen then if instead of demanding justice we recognize (or at least consider) that the very notion of justice ... produces and requires Black exclusion and death as normative?"
Joy James & Joāo Costa Vargas, "Refusing Blackness-as-Victimization: Trayvon Martin and the Black Cyborgs"
Forever relevant
theignoramus
Member
What in the fuck does "overly calm" mean? We cant win these fucking people. If she hadnt been "overly calm" she would have got shot too.
They just want us to shut up and die.
NullPointer
Member
And its not like he was on the hook for murder, but for second degree manslaughter and recklessness.
How the fuck does that not apply to these circumstances?
Man do I wish we could hear some audio of these deliberations, because I don't see what leg there is to stand on here, or how the jury could rationalize their verdict even among themselves.
How the fuck does that not apply to these circumstances?
Man do I wish we could hear some audio of these deliberations, because I don't see what leg there is to stand on here, or how the jury could rationalize their verdict even among themselves.
Inspector Jones
Member
People are way too comfy to protest against anything they perceive as unfair or unjust in America. There should be more outrage over this but it'll be forgotten about and just added to a growing list of injustices while everyone else goes about glued to their phones or watching Netflix. Not to draw attention away from this story, but look at everything happening in the USA right now, there should be protests all the time!
Whatever (Goes back to playing video games)
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Obviously, I don't really think whatever; but I can't really see anything changing unless there is mass protest that lasts longer than a day and or possible violence. And even then I think things are too set in stone.
Whatever (Goes back to playing video games)
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Obviously, I don't really think whatever; but I can't really see anything changing unless there is mass protest that lasts longer than a day and or possible violence. And even then I think things are too set in stone.
NullPointer
Member
That line applies to defendants (the cop in this case), but also applies to the general community.
ghostofsparta
Member
and they wonder why we riot
SolarPowered
Member
The video just after his death was one of the most chilling ones I'd ever seen. To think that a jury couldn't convict even then. No one should be surprised when the dam eventually breaks and people try to fight back with violence instead of litigation and words. Radical left is gonna pop the fuck off.
smokeymicpot
Beat EviLore at pool.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- Minnesota city of St. Anthony says it will dismiss officer acquitted in shooting of motorist Philando Castile.
https://twitter.com/braddjaffy/status/875819990372450306
https://twitter.com/braddjaffy/status/875819990372450306
The Silver
Member
this one really deserves a fucking riot
Khaos Kontrol
Banned
What.....the........fuck?
I figured if any case were a slam dunk for a guilty verdict, it would be this it. Damn...
I figured if any case were a slam dunk for a guilty verdict, it would be this it. Damn...
Wow, I thought this one would at the VERY LEAST be a case where the evidence was so clear cut and dry and in fucking video that there was at least a sure deal hope that one of these fuckers would pay for their crimes, but nope.
So wtf happened? Did the judge instruct the jury before hand to throw out any and all logic, common sense, decency, humanity when making this impartial decision, or did the jury just think that the fact that the man had been high he was putting the cops life in danger of inhaling the smoke of a gateway drug and falling into a life of drugs and despair hence needing to defend his very life?
Fuck this planet.
So wtf happened? Did the judge instruct the jury before hand to throw out any and all logic, common sense, decency, humanity when making this impartial decision, or did the jury just think that the fact that the man had been high he was putting the cops life in danger of inhaling the smoke of a gateway drug and falling into a life of drugs and despair hence needing to defend his very life?
Fuck this planet.
But violence isn't the answer. Just have to keep peacefully protesting, because that has been working real well.
just do it orderly, please.
Shocking!
See this is the reason we were wary of the all white jury during the rapist cop trial.
The victim was black and the jury was mostly white. There is no real shocker here.
The Greek Freak
Member
A cop could come to my house right now, have it 100% be 1080p/60 perfect audio via a camera, shoot me dead at my doorstep without saying a word and would get off scott free since I'm a black man and am a walking terrifying threat by default.
That said big ups to Rhode Island for having no officer involved fatal shootings in 2015, and as far as I know 2016. We still have some racist ass cops but I don't expect to be shot for walking down the wrong street in my state. In stark contrast to the way I have felt when a cop stopped me while walking in a nicer Chicago suburb recently saying "you look like you don't belong here" while he looked equally pissed and scared, or when I was in Cleveland two years ago and a cop pointed his gun at me and called me a faggot when I laughed at him trip into the side of his car walking out of a convenience store.
Just listen to prologue of the This American Life episode where a reporter showed the video of Eric Garner's murder to her cop friend to understand the warped reality some cops have been trained to see the world. It's not a leap to understand how verdicts like this happen when you have people who think the police are infallible, especially in their accounts of events. The sprinkling of
Alligatorjandro
Banned
Police kill more Americans than terrorists do
So he is bad at his job, just not bad enough to go to jail?
Twig and Berries
Member
Nah, it's not even that they're saying he's bad at his job, just that this kind of high profile event means the public (rightfully) wont trust him, making him incapable of doing his job even though the department considers him innocent.
Don't fret. He'll find another willing gang to employ him.
Evening Musuko
Black Korea
I'm sure there's some backwoods town that would love to have him get rid of their black person problem. uphold the law.
theignoramus
Member
With social media, a community at large feels this type of injustice even more acutely than before. And the cumulative effect of these verdicts will be radicalisation. Period.
Dude Abides
Banned
What was the defense's argument for why Yanez feared for his life? Just because Castile said he had a gun?
Pai Pai Master
Banned
Its bolded in the OP...
"The defense, on the other hand, maintained that Yanez acted in self-defense and argued that the shooting wouldnt have happened if Castile wasnt high on marijuana."
He had THC in his system so he was obviously a violent raging lunatic.
THC will impair your ability to comply with demands. He had a gun, and he wasn't complying fast enough. He moved his hands towards his waist, and since folks high on marijuana can be twitchy and aggressively unpredictable, the cop feared for his life.
It was a good, clean shot. Didn't even hit the passenger. That's true marksmanship.
Forerunner
Member
Marijuana.
Black dude with a gun (which he could have) and drugs. He was fucked from the started, of course the officer got away with it. Nobody really gives a fuck because it doesn't affect them. They are all to content living their own lives.
"Oh, he shouldn't have been doing drugs, he was no angel! So he had it coming."
Darryl M R
Member
Damn.
Jmanunknown
Member
It is so sad that your statement is a fact. An american is a lot more likely to be killed a cop then a terrorist.
Mammoth Jones
Member
Yup. Always been this way.
In the words of Run the Jewels, "When you niggas gon' unite and kill the police, motherfuckas?"
I know the song is about venting frustration at the futility of it all but damn. If people are taking shots at politicians, are we that far from more attacks on police? I remember thinking the Rodney King riots were going to bring about serious country-wide civil unrest. I wouldn't condone attacks but I sure as hell would understand.
I know the song is about venting frustration at the futility of it all but damn. If people are taking shots at politicians, are we that far from more attacks on police? I remember thinking the Rodney King riots were going to bring about serious country-wide civil unrest. I wouldn't condone attacks but I sure as hell would understand.
not enough. He needs to never be able to be a cop again anywhere and lose his fucking pension.
Once again, thanks a lot white people for fucking up the simplest of political tasks.
Dude Abides
Banned
Yaphett Kotto
Member
Never had faith in the justice system after Tamir Rice.
Royce McCutcheon
Junior Member
This is A-OK
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