Raistline said:
johnsobas said:
This is a local story here, and there is more information unfolding by the day. I have to admit even i jumped to conclusions when i saw the video but there appears to be more nuance than we thought. To be sure I still have lot of doubts it is a justified shooting but there is a possibility it's not so black and white.
First of all the police officer that killed him is mexican, not white.
The star tribune reported that he did have a permit to have the gun, although the source is just "a source."
audio has been released from before the police officer walked up to the car that shows us that he believed that castile matched the description of robbery suspect that there was a BOLO (be on the look out) out for and that was the reason he pulled him over (not the broken tail light).
The police officer said he saw the gun on his lap and told him not to move, he says he reached for the gun and that is when he shot him. There are some pictures out there that appear to show a gun on castile's lap, although it's hard to say for sure.
this video from a facebook livestream has recently been found showing castile's girlfriend smoking weed with castile while driving with their daughter in the car. It's not related to the incident but it isn't the type of image we are seeing in the media. The way she keeps looking at herself and showing herself off is just creepy.
http://dennismichaellynch.com/credibility-zero-girlfriend-who-filmed-castile-shooting-on-facebook-live/
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Additional informaiton shows that Castile has also been pulled over more than 50 times for minor-major traffic incidents, most of which were not ticketed. This record is kept by police and the more often a person is pulled over the more likely they are to be pulled over in the future.
This situation and the evidence now being released to the public is the reason why we can't be so fast to jump to conclusions and immediatly blame someone without knowing much. This is what I have been trying so hard to express in my previous posts on this thread.
It is terrible that this incident fueled by false information led to the Riot on I94 and Grand Ave that erupted during the protest. 102 citezen arrests, 21 injured police officers, one of which had a broken vertibrae and will likely not be able to work anymroe because of it.
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Looks like classic discrediting of the witness in a case of her word against the officer's. Getting pulled over more than 50 times with no ticketable offense for the majority sounds like pure harassment to me. Plus there's still the overkill factor. 4 shots, no warning shot.
And it's not just this incident that fueled the mostly peaceful demonstrations.
