Not Guilty: Officer who Shot Philando Castile





The cop asked him for his ID and inusurance. He gives him his insurance, tells the cop he has a gun, and is reaching for his wallet. He shot dead while still wearing his seat belt. This really hurts.
 
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/jury-deliberating-case-officer-shot-castile-48076970

I'll leave this right here

Juror Dennis Ploussard said the jury was split 10-2 early this week in favor of acquittal. They spent a lot of time dissecting the "culpable negligence" requirement for conviction, and the last two holdouts eventually agreed Friday on acquittal. He declined to say whether he thought Yanez acted appropriately, but said the jury sympathizes with the Castile family.

"We struggled with it. I struggled with it. It was very, very hard," Ploussard said, adding that he thought the jury delivered the right verdict.

He would not identify the two early holdouts, but said they were not the jury's only two black members. The rest of the jurors were white. None was Latino.
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Now you wouldn't say anything else but made sure to POINT that out. I am sure those two black jurors aren't happy now. Guess who lives just got put in danger.
 



"The necessary re-education of blacks and a possible solution to racial crises can begin strangely enough, only when blacks fully realize this central fact in their lives; the white man is their bitter enemy. This is not the ranting of wild-eye militancy, but the calm, unmistakable verdict of several thousands years of documented history." -Chancellor Williams from his book "The Destruction of Black Civilization"
 
I started to say some stuff.....but I'll just leave it at this.

I am black.
I am a cop.
I don't "serve" shit....my job is to preserve the peace in my jurisdiction.
I DAYUM sure don't serve and protect white supremacy.
To say that folks don't want one or two nut job mofos to represent their community, race, group, etc....they have NOOOO problem doing that same thing to others.
 
SUJagFan said:
Of course, you're in denial.

You have to be self-delusional to see rampant brutality of your own people and look the other way.

To see corruption, coverups, and other injustice, but refuse to cross the thin blue line. Because you know if you did then you wouldn't have a job.

To be aware of the school to prison pipeline and be a school resource officer. We've seen your brave type. Putting handcuffs on six year olds. Choke slamming and roughing up a 13 year old boy for saying something the wrong way. Body slamming 14 year old girls in the classroom. Yet, the lie you tell yourself and others is that you're there to "keep the peace in your jurisdiction". When it's obvious you're really there to condition those kids to police presence early and to start as many Black and brown kids on the path to prison as quickly as possible. Those for profit prisons need filling and somebody has to do it.

You are a cog in the system. That badge you have was given to you by the system. You operate at the whim of the system. Nothing more, nothing less.
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YOU DON'T KNOW ME!!!! I had a job BEFORE this, and can get one after this, if I so choose. I was black BEFORE being a cop, am black now, and will be black when they lower me into the ground. You have absolutely NO FUCKING CLUE how I go about doing my job. Find me that 13 year old that I roughed up. Find me that 14 year old that I slammed. Find me a 6 year old that I put in handcuffs. You can't and won't. But you WILL find kids that I have mentored who have steered clear of the school to prison pipeline. You WILL find kids who see the stuff that I do OUTSIDE of the uniform and ask me to mentor them, to teach them. See my friend.....I am not the problem. YOU are.

*DISCLAIMER.....I am not a representative, good or bad, of all cops, just as none of you are representative of ALL of any group.. I am me, a cop who tries to do the right thing the right way. All cops aren't built like me, and I know this. But until you KNOW me, and have SEEN what I have done in my career, you can save that bullshit rant above....
 
Yet again you are wrong. More often than not, I don't even offer personal opinion. I give insight as to how it will be looked at by the people charged with the investigation... Understanding how a system works does not equal agreeing with everything about it.
 
s phi s said:
I started to say some stuff.....but I'll just leave it at this.

I am black.
I am a cop.
I don't "serve" shit....my job is to preserve the peace in my jurisdiction.
I DAYUM sure don't serve and protect white supremacy.
To say that folks don't want one or two nut job mofos to represent their community, race, group, etc....they have NOOOO problem doing that same thing to others.
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Would you publicly arrest a cop who is uniform doing something wrong that you knew was wrong? For example in this case the cop on the opposite side of the car did not have his gun drawn and stated that he was not in danger as he did not see a weapon. Would you have arrested the cop who shot Philando Castile?

I know you are a cop but at the present time I have literally no faith in police what so ever. I have homeboys who are cops that I grew up with, even a first cousin with L.A. County who is contemplating retirement after Friday because he is sick of being associated with a legalized street gang.
 
s phi s said:
Yet again you are wrong. More often than not, I don't even offer personal opinion. I give insight as to how it will be looked at by the people charged with the investigation... Understanding how a system works does not equal agreeing with everything about it.
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That's the biggest problem I have with police. You all don't want to offer your "personal" opinion because it may not fit the narrative of how the police view themselves..
 
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SUJagFan said:
Exactly.

Standing silent in the face of injustice - to be in solidarity with police - is tacit support of injustice.

To run to these pages to tell us to "let the system work" when he knows the system is corrupt and unjust is de facto support of evil.

Trying to wash his hands of it like Pontius Pilate does not make him "good".
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That's to me is the biggest problem. These "so called" good cops allowing the bad ones to go unchecked. In my opinion these "good cops" are much worse than the bad ones because their moral fiber is being tested and they don't care.
 
The Founder said:
That's the biggest problem I have with police. You all don't want to offer your "personal" opinion because it may not fit the narrative of how the police view themselves..
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Fair enough. Although I have on occasion offered personal views as well. Let me offer my personal opinion on this one.....

I think the officer was scary as hell. I have encountered numerous people on stops who tell me they have a gun on them, and I have yet to so much as even unholster my weapon. In my opinion, he put himself in a position to where, in his mind, he had no choice. I was reading an article the other day that solidified this. Had he been in the normal "safe" position that officers are trained for in a traffic stop (behind the "B" pillar), he would not have been in the line of fire, even if he did perceive a threat from Castille pulling a firearm. I further have a HUGE problem with him firing into a car, especially from the position he was in, with a child in the back seat, in the backdrop of his line of fire. I (along with every other cop I have talked to, whether white, black, hispanic or other) agrees that we are dumbfounded that he was not convicted on ANYTHING.....yet we are not surprised, much as you are not surprised. The prosecutors trying these cases are typically FAR less experienced than the defense attorneys. And in the case of officers, the lawyers representing them are often times former officers themselves. All they have to introduce is REASONABLE DOUBT, and the prosecution must prove their case BEYOND that reasonable doubt, in addition to proving the "mens rea" or mental state of the officer. Proving murder is MUCH MORE than just proving that Officer A pulled the trigger and the bullet killed Person B.
 
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