Here it is for the morbidly curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcwTnQP2kDU
The argument is always that the cop was justified because Scary Big Black Guy, and Who Can Blame Him, etc. etc. I don’t think the video will persuade the public otherwise, anymore than it did the jury…
in the video I saw:
0:12 Officer reaches driver’s window
0:44 Castile informs officer that he has a gun
0:44.5 Officer puts hand on his revolver
0:45-0:50 Officer keeps telling Castile not to pull out the gun
0:50 Officer shoots Castile
0:50 Second officer, who has been standing five feet away from the passenger side of car, runs away.
I saw it (somewhere else) and wish I hadn’t. Except that it so clearly shows that the police officer was completely panicked and out of control. I cannot believe that anyone who saw this, would then let him off. An injustice of sickening proportions.
Well, he was skeert! When a police officer is skeert, you must acquit!
I read that he said something in his testimony along the lines that he smelled marijuana and that meant Castile had been smoking in front of the little girl and that bugged him. This from the guy who shot a man to pieces in front of said little girl, all the while screaming profanities at the top of his lungs. It is a miracle she wasn’t killed as well.
It shows that the officer freaked the eff out, is what it showed. How a jury can watch that and convict on none o the charges is beyond me. Wow.
is this guy still on the police force?
Police have got to do a better job of screening out people like this before they are allowed on patrol or on the force…he should have been on desk duty or in a job that didn’t involve interaction w/ the public.
One of the flaws in police dept is that there is a stigma against these (non-patrol) jobs. And there seems to be no stigma against shooting brown people. The “brotherhood” union protects/defends them then. Classic case of toxic masculinity.
Jury didn’t see it I don’t believe.
According to Lawrence O 'Donnell, the jury did see it.
Yeah you’re right. wow. One of them claimed because they couldn’t see if Philando was reaching for his gun like the officer claimed so that was why they had to go with what the officer said about it.
That’s just astounding. You get shot dead because the officer thinks your reaching for you gun, not that you actually have one in your hand pointing it at him where he can actually see it. He just thinks you are. So he gets off free. WTF man, WTF!?
I have been pretty down since seeing that tape. I know the jury always gives the cop the benefit of the doubt, and if they say they are scared for their life, then that’s a thing that absolves them as well….but this….seeing this dumbass in full panic mode shooting 7 bullets into a car, almost hitting the other two passengers as well, not to mention the other officer … and then continues to scream like a stuck pig while an innocent man lay dying. And then he gets off scot-free. It just boggles the mind….along with everything else that is going on in this country. Sigh….bad week….can hardly even comment lately.
The mom got handcuffed after the cop unloaded his gun on her daughter’s innocent father, holy fucking shit what is wrong with some folks?
That little girl saw it all. God help her.
And another similar minded cop.