SvennoJ said:
Raistline said:
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.
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what the heck is a warning shot? thats not a thing. and is never taught in any gun training, its not only unsafe and stupid, but also usually unlawful.
and in almost all situation where you a forced to fire a weapon, your pretty much taught to keep firing, until the threat is neutralized, 4 shots isnt a lot. (note: i am not saying that this situation warrented shots fired, as we dont have the facts, but just stating for the record, 4 shots is not a lot, and warning shot, or shots to the extremities is not a thing)
