CCW holder killed reaching for ID.

If I may offer a rare totally cynical comment...

I wonder if the girlfriend Diamond Reynolds is going to challenge the family for some of that money. After all, she was in the car. And so was her girl.

Does she deserve some of it? I honestly think, yes.
 
Skeptic Tank said:
I dunno, personally... I think that when an armed police officer who you've just informed about your gun starts loudly and repeatedly screaming "don't reach for it! don't pull it out!" and then even goes so far as to reach into your car and try to stop your hand from getting where it's going... it's pretty clear that he wants you to halt all hand movements and keep your hands where he can see them.
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He was probably moving his hands away from the gun.
 
At least we have the juries finding that knowing someone has a gun is a rational reason to be afraid of them. CCW's do invoke fear in people and that is found to be reasonable in court.
 
quadraginta said:
Anyone want a pool on how long it takes Officer Yanez to get hired on by a different police dept. somewhere else?
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I hope he takes his training to heart, and simply refuses to get involved in situations like this again, ever.

But...

He can show up again...
 
quadraginta said:
I'm going with more than a year, less than three.

He might have to take a short sabbatical as a mall rent-a-cop until the heat dies down.
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That's quite possibly true. I'd like to think that'd that we are at least win this restriction.

But sadly, you may absolutely correct.
 
quadraginta said:
It would be better if that realization applied to parties beyond cops blowing away brown people while in a state of panic.
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What are you basing your assertion that this case hinged on Mr. Castile's race on?

Your assertion that Officer Yanez's concern over his actions was connected to, or amplified by, his race?

Where's that coming from?

You realize Officer Yanez is also brown right?
 
quadraginta said:
Sheriff Clarke would probably hire him straight off. With a raise and a bonus, I expect.

Unless he's too busy trying to go to work for Trump.
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I'm sure that a-hole Clarke would. But he's absolutely evil - the exact person I want to kick out of any authority.

So...I guess look toward local elections?
 
Mumbles said:
seems like a good price to get rid of him. I'm still worried that the cop in question will just end up as a cop at another department - and it doesn't help that the white supremacist PD over in Ferguson actually sent him words of encouragement.
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Probably. Kind of puts lie to those claims that cops are fired for failures to follow policy and such. If that really happened they wouldn't have had to buy this guy out.
 
The NRA finally has more to say. But maybe they shouldn't have bothered at all.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...ing-heated-debate_us_59637764e4b02e9bdb0e0e9e
On CNN, Loesch said on behalf of the NRA that the death of Castile is “absolutely awful” and “a terrible tragedy that could have been avoided.”


“I don’t agree with every single decision that comes out from courtrooms of America. There are a lot of variables in this particular case and there were a lot of things that I wish would have been done differently,” Loesch told the CNN host. “Do I believe that Philando Castile deserved to lose his life over a [traffic] stop? I absolutely do not. I also think that this is why we have things like NRA carry guard, not only to reach out to the citizens to go over what to do during stops like this, but also to work with law enforcement so that they understand what citizens are experiencing when they go through stops like this.”
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If the NRA can call the ATF jack booted thugs, then at the very least they could have called the cop who shot Castile a 150 pound pussy with a badge and gun. But they didn't; after all in the NRA's eyes he was probably just another man killed because he was "carrying while black".

Did she really use this event to push their "carry guard" crap? Or was she actually putting the blame on the victim?
 
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