And the jury saw this same video?
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They sure did. It was horrible.
Everyone started out calm, then the officer suddenly freaked out.
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And the jury saw this same video?
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Yep. Not really shocked but outraged and sad. I couldn't even open this thread until now. I've been devastated.
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phttp://kstp.com/news/juror-yanez-tr...verdict-state-not-proving-case/4516571/?cat=1
Juror perspective. Says state did not prove case.
Zero surprise. I don't know why anyone is surprised. The police in this country are not about law enforcement. They are a group of people who operate above the law and do whatever they want, with almost total immunity. They pull people over and search their cars without warrants, in violation of the Fourth Amendment. They beat, torture, and kill men, women, children, and 99% of the time they are not even charged. This is just more empowerment for them to continue doing it, and they will. Nothing ever changes in this country.
Squad Car Dash cam
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=z1ac7Zblqyk
The officer who fatally shot Philando Castile during a traffic stop last year told investigators that the smell of "burnt marijuana" in Castile's car made him believe his life was in danger.
"I thought, I was gonna die," Officer Jeronimo Yanez told investigators from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension fifteen hours after the shooting. "And I thought if he’s, if he has the, the guts and the audacity to smoke marijuana in front of the five year old girl and risk her lungs and risk her life by giving her secondhand smoke and the front seat passenger doing the same thing then what, what care does he give about me. And, I let off the rounds and then after the rounds were off, the little girls was screaming."
Washington Post
The officer who fatally shot Philando Castile during a traffic stop last year told investigators that the smell of "burnt marijuana" in Castile's car made him believe his life was in danger.
"I thought, I was gonna die," Officer Jeronimo Yanez told investigators from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension fifteen hours after the shooting. "And I thought if he’s, if he has the, the guts and the audacity to smoke marijuana in front of the five year old girl and risk her lungs and risk her life by giving her secondhand smoke and the front seat passenger doing the same thing then what, what care does he give about me. And, I let off the rounds and then after the rounds were off, the little girls was screaming."
Washington Post
Yeah, this makes perfect sense!
The other day, I was at the beach. And there was this lady, and she didn't put any sunblock on her kid, and I was sitting right next to her, and I realized that since she doesn't care about whether her kid gets skin cancer, she clearly doesn't care about ME. Who knows what she could have done to me! My life was in danger, so I killed her. I mean, what else to do?
I'm embarrassed to even be an American these days.
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No way federal charges will be brought. It would have to be charged as a "hate crime" or a "civil rights" issue. There is no way they will bring charges under those circumstances-- they can't prove either. OJY has no history of that, and there is no evidence from the crime scene to support that. Federal charges are a pipe dream, and even more so because the verdict from the state case IS admissible.
I hope OJY pursues some civil lawsuits. The first one being against the Governor, as representative of the State of MN in his comments.
This is a very scary country we live in, and it is not because of criminals. No other country in the world would allow this type of thing to happen.
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency of the certainty of corruption by authority.” - Lord Acton
There are plenty of countries where these things happen. Maybe not with guns or maybe with guns, There are middle eastern, African, perhaps Russia, and so on
IMO no federal charges.
1. According to federal reports, only 4 percent of civil rights complaints against police officers have been prosecuted since 1995.
2. Federal civil rights charges: No discrimination against a person because of their race, color, gender. Yanez has no history of discrimination. He is Hispanic.
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.
http://gizmodo.com/after-philando-castiles-death-investigators-tried-to-s-1796335848
This is sort of interesting. I bet they were praying that he was somehow connected to that armed robbery.