Quote:1. It's been widely reported that he owned a gun and held a concealed carry permit.

 

2. Mr. Castile was very much alive coming into the encounter. That provides pretty strong evidence that his owning and carrying hadn't given any of the 31 previous cops reason to kill him.

 

3. "Black man with a big nose" is all that was given. That's it. No description of clothes, no description of a car. Show me evidence that he reached for a weapon instead of reaching for his wallet as he had been instructed to do.


 

Again, and I know this is hard for you to wrap your head around, but I never said it was racial. It clearly wasn't. It was a gross abuse of power and second degree murder, but at no point have I said that it was racially
motivated, because it wasn't. Not every white cop on black male incident is about the skin color of those involved. In this case, it is about a pig who had no business carrying a gun murdering someone over what couldn't even have been described as "mistaken identity" at that point.

 

The police are bad. I'm actually headed out to buy myself a gun first thing in the morning. After a safety course, of course. The murders of two men followed by the murders of five officers have convinced me that it's time to be able to protect my family and myself from anyone who enters this house intending us harm.

Wanted to point out a couple things that we know:

1. Cop instructed Mr. Castile to keep hands up

2. Cop asked for license and registration

3. Mr. Castille states he has a weapon

4. Mr. Castile Reached for wallet

5. Cop freaked out and shot Mr. Castile.

 

The problems: We do not know in what order the first three things occurred. Girlfriend said it was hands up and then the cop asked for license and registration, and Mr. Castille reached for wallet. The problem is, we don't know A. When Mr. Castille told the officer he had the gun, or B. Whether the officer told him to keep hands up after hearing about the gun or prior, and C. Where the gun was at.

 

We can agree that the use of force was probably not warranted in this scenario. The problem is that common sense tells you that the officer would have told him to keep his hands up after hearing about the gun. But it also tells you that Mr. Castille had been pulled over a bunch of times and should/probably did know what to do. Until we know the order of the situation you can't really say second degree murder vs. manslaughter etc. We need more facts to come out cause it makes a big difference.

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