Trial For The Murderous Pig Who Executed Philando Castile Begins Today…
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http://www.mediaite.com/online/why-i-am-still-baffled-by-the-outrage-over-the-philando-castile-shooting-verdict-video/
This "columnist" is the perfect example of the mental gymnastics the white man will use to defend their race soldiers… -
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Has any comments or testimony of the other officer on the same side of the car as Castile been released in the media?
The officer closest to Castile didn't even more or act like Castile was reaching for anything. -
Has any comments or testimony of the other officer on the same side of the car as Castile been released in the media?
The officer closest to Castile didn't even more or act like Castile was reaching for anything.
You know good and well if he does make a comment it will be him towing the party line. That said, you do make a good point. He didn't seem like he felt the situation was particularly threatening until the other cop started shooting. -
Has any comments or testimony of the other officer on the same side of the car as Castile been released in the media?
The officer closest to Castile didn't even more or act like Castile was reaching for anything.
That pig took the stand and basically said his scumbag partner didn't do anything wrong... -
The Lonious Monk wrote: »Has any comments or testimony of the other officer on the same side of the car as Castile been released in the media?
The officer closest to Castile didn't even more or act like Castile was reaching for anything.
You know good and well if he does make a comment it will be him towing the party line. That said, you do make a good point. He didn't seem like he felt the situation was particularly threatening until the other cop started shooting.
Of course sometime you just want to see and hear it though just cause. -
was reading that one of the bullets went through the front driver's seat almost hitting the girl
amazing how she was able to keep it together for so long to try to console her mom after such a traumatic experience
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Has any comments or testimony of the other officer on the same side of the car as Castile been released in the media?
The officer closest to Castile didn't even more or act like Castile was reaching for anything.
That cop was actually in the line of fire and couldve been shot by that reckless coward -
Has any comments or testimony of the other officer on the same side of the car as Castile been released in the media?
The officer closest to Castile didn't even more or act like Castile was reaching for anything.
That cop was actually in the line of fire and couldve been shot by that reckless coward
? is just insane.
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http://gizmodo.com/after-philando-castiles-death-investigators-tried-to-s-1796335848After Philando Castile's Death, Investigators Tried to Secretly Get Access to Diamond Reynolds' Facebook and Phone Records
On July 7th, 2016, just one day after Diamond Reynolds streamed video of a police officer shooting and killing her boyfriend, Philando Castile, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension began working to obtain records from Reynolds’s phone. The BCA, which was in charge of investigating Castile’s death, submitted a preservation request to Facebook for Reynolds’ accounts, and obtained a search warrant one day later. The BCA also served a search warrant on Sprint for Reynold’s cell phone records.
BCA took things one step further—they ordered Facebook and Sprint not to tell Reynolds that investigators intended to rifle through her accounts.
Facebook opposed the gag order and, after weeks of discussion between the BCA and a lawyer at Facebook, the warrant was rescinded altogether. Sprint, however, complied with the warrant, and turned over Reynolds’ call records, voicemails, and cell tower information that revealed her location.
The newly released correspondence reveals how Facebook interacted with law enforcement in the high-profile case, and juxtaposes the social media company’s opposition with Sprint’s compliance. The warrant applications, as well as emails between BCA special agent in charge Scott Mueller and Facebook associate general counsel Gavin Corn, were recently released to journalist Tony Webster in response to a public records request. Webster shared the files with Gizmodo.
Companies like Facebook walk a delicate line with law enforcement agencies. They don’t want to appear welcoming to criminals, and providing information when they’re able to gives companies some cover when they can’t turn over encrypted data. But if companies are too quick to turn over information, they can face backlash from their users and criticism from civil liberties groups.
Facebook and Sprint regularly receive search warrants from law enforcement—so frequently, in fact, that the companies have automated portals for agencies to submit their requests. But it’s Facebook’s policy to notify users when their data is requested, a spokesperson told Gizmodo. (Sprint didn’t immediately return a request for comment, but we’ll update if we hear back.)
“Our policy is to notify people about law enforcement requests for their information before disclosure unless we’re legally barred from doing so. In this case, we decided to challenge gag orders on our ability to provide this important notice, and the authorities ultimately withdrew these warrants altogether,” the spokesperson said.
Between July and December 2016, the most recent period for which data is available, Facebook received 14,736 search warrants from US law enforcement agencies. It produced some data in response to over 85 percent of those warrants. Sprint received 10,194 search warrants between January and June 2016 (its most recent reporting period), but does not disclose how often it complies with warrants.
In Reynolds’ case, the BCA requested all data from her three Facebook accounts, including messages, wall posts, and photographs with metadata that would show when the picture was taken and what device was used. The request spanned from July 4th, two days before the shooting, until July 8th. BCA also requested data from Castile’s account for the same time period.
The bureau also requested a log of Reynolds’ calls and text messages from Sprint, as well as cell phone tower data that would reveal her location during the four-day period. Sprint complied, sending the voicemails in August and additional data in October.
In contrast, investigators subpoenaed the phone records of officer Jeronimo Yanez, who shot Castile, that covered just one day—from July 6th at 9pm through July 7th at midnight.
The BCA justified its request by saying it was looking for evidence of “criminal activity” conducted by the couple. Shortly after Castile’s death, Officer Yanez claimed that he smelled weed in the vehicle; Reynolds admitted this was true later, but said neither she nor Castile had been smoking at the time. Yanez also reportedly told the couple they had been pulled over for a broken taillight, though he also claimed he stopped the vehicle because he believed Castile fit the description of someone who was involved in a nearby robbery. That claim was never validated. (A spokesperson for BCA declined to comment for this story.)
“Individuals frequently call and/or text messages to each other regarding criminal activity during and/or after and [sic] event has occurred,” BCA special agent Bill O’Donnell wrote in the warrant application. “The Affiant is also of the belief that a review and analysis of text messages and chats regarding the individuals involved in this incident may in fact assist in corroborating or refuting statements made by the individual involved in this investigation.”
The warrants were accompanied by indefinite gag orders that, if enforced, would have prevented Facebook and Sprint from ever notifying Reynolds about the search of her messages.
Corn argued that Facebook should be allowed to notify Reynolds and Castile’s family about the warrants, the emails show. BCA’s investigation into the shooting was already public and had been discussed by Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton, so there was no reason for secrecy. Facebook had also temporarily preserved data from Reynolds’ and Castile’s accounts, so even if Reynolds was informed of the warrant, she wouldn’t be able to erase data.
“We respectfully request that you seek to formally remove or strike the nondisclosure orders included with the warrants. Facebook then intends to provide notice to the users (including the deceased user’s next of kin and legal representative(s)) and to allow the users a minimum of 10 days to submit any objections they may have to the Court over the basis for, or scope of, these warrants,” Corn wrote.
Perfect example of systemic racism.... -
Even though Corn asked to speak with a lawyer with the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office or the Department of Justice, Mueller demurred, apparently preferring to handle the legal argument himself.
Mueller asked if Facebook would consider a delayed notification that would allow BCA to search Reynolds’ account before she was notified. After more than a week of back-and-forth, Corn warned Mueller that Facebook would file a legal challenge to the warrants.
“The sooner you can tell us whether you will be rescinding the warrants the better as we are preparing legal filings now,” he wrote.
On July 20, Mueller finally rescinded the warrants to Facebook.
Although it has taken nearly a year for her suspicions to be proven correct, Reynolds believed in the aftermath of the shooting that she was being treated like a suspect. “I was treated like a criminal,” she said on the day after the shooting. “I was treated like I was the one who did this.”
Reynolds said that police took her phone away after she live-streamed the shooting, and that she begged them to give it back, worrying they would take down the video from her Facebook page. The video did indeed disappear for about an hour, which Facebook attributed to a “technical glitch,” and was later reinstated.
“Diamond was not a suspect and was nothing but a victim in this case,” her attorney, Larry Rogers Jr., told Gizmodo. “I did think it was an invasion of her personal privacy to begin to dig into her personal communications when she was nothing other than a witness and a victim.”
Rogers said that Sprint apparently complied with the gag order—it never informed Rogers that it was turning over Reynolds’ phone records. He said that details about BCA’s investigation into Reynolds’ communications have only recently become known after Jeronimo Yanez, the officer who shot Castile, was acquitted last week.
“It’s an example of how far the authorities go in some instances,” Rogers said. “When it relates to investigation of witnesses, I think it’s entirely questionable conduct.” -
I just wish I could have 24 hours to right hook anyone who said these young black men "deserved" to get shot, but cried at that ? cac Otto ? getting the ? beat out of him in NK for ? around with them.
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Crooked cops tried extremely hard to create a false narrative about philando and his girlfriend...and in the end they didnt even need to lie to get off...just said "hey he smoked weed and I got scarred"
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The Lonious Monk wrote: »
See that's how scared cops turn into monstrous cop. That Yanez dude clearly didn't set out to ? Castile. He was was scared of the skin color and to bitchmade to be in that role to begin with. However, with his superiors praising him for killing a black man and the jury letting him off completely free after killing a black man, what do you think he'll be like in the future? The next black man he abuses will be intentional, not fear based.
First bolded: I am not entirely sure about that.
Second bolded: Have you thought that maybe Philando was the next black man?
The dashcam video makes the shooting seem possibly deliberate to me. -
Undefeatable wrote: »The Lonious Monk wrote: »
See that's how scared cops turn into monstrous cop. That Yanez dude clearly didn't set out to ? Castile. He was was scared of the skin color and to bitchmade to be in that role to begin with. However, with his superiors praising him for killing a black man and the jury letting him off completely free after killing a black man, what do you think he'll be like in the future? The next black man he abuses will be intentional, not fear based.
First bolded: I am not entirely sure about that.
Second bolded: Have you thought that maybe Philando was the next black man?
The dashcam video makes the shooting seem possibly deliberate to me.
I guess we can agree to disagree. There is no question that he intended to ? Castile. I'm saying he didn't appear to get out of his car wanting to hurt or ? Castile. And when he did ? Castile, his actions most certainly seemed to be because of irrational fear and not because he just wanted to shoot a ? . Look at that footage again and then go look at the footage of the Walter Scott shooting. There is a clear difference in the demeanor of the two cops involved. -
I just wish I could have 24 hours to right hook anyone who said these young black men "deserved" to get shot, but cried at that ? cac Otto ? getting the ? beat out of him in NK for ? around with them.
? otto ? went to north korea an the state department said not to go...castile didnt go anywhere but down the street -
Wait yanchez wont be a patrol cop anymore its to dangerous for him at this point
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/06/22/police-video-wont-deliver-justice-philando-castiles-case-proved-it/?utm_term=.bd57b1acb83aPolice video won’t deliver justice. Philando Castile’s case proved it.
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http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/old-questions-but-no-new-answers-in-the-philando-castile-verdictOld Questions But No New Answers in the Philando Castile Verdict
By Jelani Cobb
The cycle of lethal police violence, community outrage, and legal proceedings that yield no consequences came around again last Friday in St. Paul, Minnesota. A jury acquitted a police officer, Jeronimo Yanez, of all three charges—one count of second-degree manslaughter and two counts of dangerous discharge of a firearm—arising from the shooting death, a year ago, of Philando Castile.
On Tuesday, four days after the verdict, Minnesota state investigators made public the dash-cam video from Yanez’s car. Officer Yanez had said that he saw Castile drive by, thought he resembled a suspect in a robbery case, and decided to pull him over. In the video, the officer can be heard calmly telling Castile that his brake light is broken, and asking to see his license and registration. Castile then says, also calmly, “Sir, I have to tell you I do have a firearm on me.” Listening to the audio, it seems reasonable to assume that Castile is informing the officer that he has a weapon—for which he turned out to have a valid permit—to avoid trouble rather than to court it. Still, Yanez is prompted to place his hand on his own gun, and shortly afterward he shouts, “Don’t pull it out!” Castile’s actions cannot be seen in the video, but he and his girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, who was also in the car, along with her four-year-old daughter, tell Yanez that Castile isn’t reaching for his gun; she later says that he was getting his identification from his wallet. Within seconds, the officer fires seven shots into the car. Two of the bullets hit Castile, who is heard to say, “I wasn’t reaching.” He died half an hour later.
That video now serves as a tragic prequel to one that Reynolds live-streamed to Facebook, after the shooting, as she sat next to Castile in the front seat of his car. That video—an unnerving first-person testimony, in which she tells Yanez, with stunning composure, “You killed my boyfriend”—was viewed millions of times, and brought an inescapable notoriety to the case. Reynolds later told reporters that she and Castile had done “nothing but what the police officer asked of us” and added, of Castile, that “nothing within his body language said ‘? me.’ ”
The decision in the Castile case differed from other, similar cases of police violence in that it highlighted a kind of divided heart of Second Amendment conservatism, at least with regard to race. David French, in National Review, called the decision a miscarriage of justice. He wrote, “Castile was following Yanez’s commands, and it’s simply false that the mere presence of a gun makes the encounter more dangerous for the police. It all depends on who possesses the gun. If he’s a concealed-carry permit-holder, then he’s in one of the most law-abiding demographics in America.” Colion Noir, an African-American gun-rights activist who serves as the face of the N.R.A.’s black-outreach campaign, also criticized the decision, writing in an online post that Yanez’s mistakes cost Castile his life, and that “covert racism is a real thing and is very dangerous.” In the days after the shooting, the N.R.A. itself had offered only a tepid response, without mentioning Castile’s name: “The reports from Minnesota are troubling and must be thoroughly investigated. In the meantime, it is important for the NRA not to comment while the investigation is ongoing. Rest assured, the NRA will have more to say once all the facts are known.” After Yanez was acquitted, it said nothing at all. Noir, in his post, also questioned whether Yanez would have had the same reaction had a white motorist identified himself as armed. The same might be asked of the N.R.A.’s non-reaction to the verdict.
The Black Lives Matter movement emerged, fundamentally, as a response to the disparate valuation that we place upon human lives. That is why the rejoinder “all lives matter” misses the point. In the hours following last week’s shocking shooting of Representative Steve Scalise and three others, in Alexandria, Virginia, the broad outpouring of concern reminded us of how society responds when people whose lives it values are harmed. In that sentiment, media coverage of the shootings did not automatically focus on controversial statements that Scalise has made or votes he has cast. To do so at such a moment seemed unbefitting.
Responses to the deaths of unarmed victims of police violence, by contrast, routinely feature the victims’ failures, shortcomings, and oversights. We were told, for example, that Eric Garner, who died after police on Staten Island put him in a choke hold, had been arrested on numerous occasions for petty offenses. Representative Peter King, of New York, pointed to the factor of Garner’s physical unfitness. “If he had not had asthma and a heart condition and was so obese, almost definitely he would not have died,” King said. Imperfect victims, as feminists who fought for stronger ? laws a generation ago understood, become perfect excuses in an unequal judicial system.
Yet there was some feeling that the verdict in Philando Castile’s death would be different from the decisions in similar cases that had preceded it. That thought hinged on a belief that his status as a lawfully licensed gun-owner, his long-standing employment as a cafeteria manager at an elementary school, and his general lack of serious missteps might exempt him from the idea that his death was his own fault. And, in fact, less blame was levelled in this case: Castile had been stopped by the police fifty times in the thirteen years before his death, but that record was widely interpreted as evidence of racial profiling rather than of personal culpability.
There was also an evidentiary reason to believe that this case might turn out differently. A second officer, Joseph Kauser, who arrived at the scene before the shooting, when Yanez called for support, and approached Castile’s car with his fellow-officer, testified that Castile was “relaxed and calm” during his exchange with Yanez. Kauser said that he believed that Yanez had acted appropriately, but that he himself had not drawn his gun, and he testified that he had not felt threatened. In the end, however, the result was indistinguishable from those in previous cases. There were no appeals for a less vitriolic dialogue, no impermeable hope that this time things would change. There was simply the numb reckoning that we’ll all go down this road again. -
http://atlantablackstar.com/2017/06/22/jury-philando-castile-case-packed-middle-aged-white-gun-loving-police-supporters/Jury In Philando Castile Case Packed with White, Middle-Aged, Gun-Loving Police Supporters
A detailed look at the jurors in the criminal case against former Minnesota officer Jeronimo Yanez offers new insight into how the cop who fatally shot Philando Castile managed to get off scot-free.
A piece published by the Minnesota Star Tribune last Friday, the same day a jury found Yanez not guilty on the charge of manslaughter, revealed small, but significant, details about the 12 men and women selected to hear the case against the ex-cop. Even after viewing dashcam footage of the harrowing final moments of Castile’s life before he was riddled with seven bullets from the officer’s gun, jurors moved to acquit Yanez, sending shock waves across the nation.
The acquittal didn’t come as a surprise to many due to the U.S.’s dismal track record of prosecuting officers who shoot and ? Black Americans. The makeup of the jury board, then, provided further evidence that the odds were already stacked against Castile in his family’s quest for justice.
According to the Star Tribune, there were just two Black jurors on the panel. Juror One was described as a young African-American who “who works as a shift manager at Wendy’s and a personal care attendant for his mom.” Though he’s never had any run-ins with the police, the juror expressed some distrust with the justice system, saying “he believed the wealthy and powerful could get off in the legal system because they could hire better attorneys.”
Juror Eight was an 18-year-old Ethiopian woman who had immigrated to the U.S. when she was just 10 years old. The newspaper noted that the defense tried to remove her from the panel due to her unfamiliarity with the American justice system, but “the judge denied the attempt.”
The rest of the jury, however, was comprised of mostly middle-aged white Minnesotans who expressed outward support for law enforcement or an unwavering faithfulness in the justice system. For instance, Juror Two was characterized as an older white woman “who manages a White Bear Lake gas station that has a contract with police.” The judge in the case denied prosecutors’ request to strike her from the board despite the revelation of pro-police posts on her Facebook page, according to the newspaper.
“One of those posts was heavily critical of NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who began kneeling during national anthems last year to protest police shootings,” the piece stated. “She said she had forgotten about the posts.”
Juror Three, a middle-aged white male whose wife worked for the same school district as Castile, outwardly admitted that it would be hard for him to be unbiased because he grew up around law enforcement and his nephew is a police officer. He was still cleared to sit on the panel. Juror Five expressed a “high regard for police” and noted that her husband was carjacked at gunpoint 18 years ago.
Juror Four was a gun owner who believed the criminal justice system is “a very fair process,” while Juror Eleven was “a middle-aged white male who owns several shotguns and long rifles to hunt pheasants,” the Star Tribune reported.
The rest of the jury members held similar beliefs — beliefs that were blatantly slanted in favor of Yanez.
While the outcome of the case was cause for outrage, the composition of the jury was seemingly proof that the U.S. justice system is operating in the way it was designed to. -
http://atlantablackstar.com/2017/06/22/sunny-hostin-accused-race-baiting-responding-newly-released-philando-castile-video/Sunny Hostin Accused of ‘Race Baiting’ After Responding to Newly Released Philando Castile Video
While reacting to the newly released footage of Philando Castile’s killing, Sunny Hostin knew she would receive a flurry of tweets accusing her of making “everything about race.”
And she was right.
Hostin began by explaining that the footage, which was released after the jury decided to acquit former St. Anthony, Minn., police Officer Jeronimo Yanez in Castile’s murder, was released by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. She said Castile announcing he had a firearm was doing “more than what was needed,” meaning he went above and beyond to prove he wasn’t a threat to Yanez.
“As the mother of a Black kid — a Black boy — I’m trying to figure out why there is no way of responding, as a Black man during a traffic stop, that is genuinely safe,” she says on “The View” Thursday, June 22.
After co-panelists Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar discuss the explanation Yanez gave for why he shot Castile seven times, Hostin asked the audience to imagine how it would be if the race of the victim and bystanders, including a 4-year-old, were different.
“I know I’m gonna get all the tweets: ‘Sunny makes everything about race, Sunny’s racist,'” she says. “Close your eyes and imagine the occupants in that car being white,” she says. “We would not be talking about this and it’s the fear of the Black family, it’s the fear of the Black man in the car.”
On Twitter, many latched on to Hostin’s statement and accused her of playing the race card … and being racist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzziPiFi2qs
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The Lonious Monk wrote: »Undefeatable wrote: »The Lonious Monk wrote: »
See that's how scared cops turn into monstrous cop. That Yanez dude clearly didn't set out to ? Castile. He was was scared of the skin color and to bitchmade to be in that role to begin with. However, with his superiors praising him for killing a black man and the jury letting him off completely free after killing a black man, what do you think he'll be like in the future? The next black man he abuses will be intentional, not fear based.
First bolded: I am not entirely sure about that.
Second bolded: Have you thought that maybe Philando was the next black man?
The dashcam video makes the shooting seem possibly deliberate to me.
I guess we can agree to disagree. There is no question that he intended to ? Castile. I'm saying he didn't appear to get out of his car wanting to hurt or ? Castile. And when he did ? Castile, his actions most certainly seemed to be because of irrational fear and not because he just wanted to shoot a ? . Look at that footage again and then go look at the footage of the Walter Scott shooting. There is a clear difference in the demeanor of the two cops involved.
He may have wanted to ? a black. He didn't know that Castile was gonna be that black until the opportunity arose when he mentioned that he had a gun.
If that was his intention, what would he have done? Scream "Don't pull it [the gun) out then," and then shoot, and afterwards claim that he feared for his life, knowing that he probably won't be charged, and that even in the unlikely event that he was, he was still highly unlikely to be convinced.
There are cases where cops ? out irrational fear. I am not sure this is one of them. It may be more deliberate than that. -
Madame_CJSkywalker wrote: »
This was murder. Murder by a ? coward
and to fire that many times inside a car with a child visibly present....
makes no sense
I counted 7 shots and heared the gun clicking atleast twice after the shooting. That coward was out of control. After that shooting he cried and made a scene like a b*tch, while Philando's gf and her child were in the same car and witnessed this killing. It was all about this drama queen though. He didn't even care for them.
Still can't believe this scary ? was acquitted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ac7Zblqyk