No justice for Philando Castile

[Talon]

http://crooksandliars.com/2017/06/no...astiles-killer

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/officer...dict-1.4164845

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/16/us/phi...ict/index.html

Philando Castile was shot and killed by police while complying with their orders. His girlfriend livestreamed the horrific event.
The cop was acquitted of all charges. Nothing, nadda, zip. Recklessly endangering the lives of his 4-year old son in the back seat? Nope.

Un-fucking-believable. What was the jury thinking?? For shame!
I can't even imagine how awful this must be for Castile's family.

For the record, I do not condone or want vigilante or mob justice. But the US police keep murdering black people with impunity, how long will it be before folks decide to start exercising some "2nd Amendment Solutions"? If I were the officer, I'd be very worried about being on the receiving end of a contract-killer's scope.

Again I don't condone this. At least the legal system offers some token recourse. The next of kin can sue. Maybe the FBI can go after the officer for violating Castile's civil rights (though I doubt it). But if the mob decides someone needs to be
executed, to whom do we appeal that judgement to?

[Greenday]

I was going to go point by point but there's just no point.

In the end, it became a he said/she said argument. There's no video of the incident (the girlfriend turn the camera on after it already happened so it tells us nothing and the dash cam isn't showing into the driver's car). There's no audio. I wasn't in the court room so I don't know all the evidence presented but given those two key facts, I'm not the least bit shocked in the verdict.

If you can't prove anything in court, nothing will change. People need to start filming before the police even make it to their door. Until the government starts doing their jobs and working for the people, we need to take monitoring law enforcement ourselves.

Every officer should be wearing a body camera that records audio. Those need to be regularly reviewed and if a cop is caught not filming when interacting with a suspect, they should be severely punished (suspensions without pay). If they aren't doing anything wrong, the cameras will protect them from people who lie to get out of trouble. If they are doing something wrong, then it'll weed out the crooks faster.