Explosive Video of Minnesota Police Shooting Gets Worldwide Attention

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Power Line:

John Hinderaker

July 7, 2016

 

Last night, at about 9 p.m. in Falcon Heights, a St. Paul suburb, a police officer stopped a vehicle, reportedly for a tail light violation. Within minutest thereafter, the officer shot the driver of the car multiple times, and the driver, Philando Castile, died.

 

What has gotten worldwide attention is video that was shot and uploaded live to Facebook by Castile’s girlfriend. The video begins when Castile has just been shot. It is almost unbelievable; you see the officer at the driver’s side window with his gun still drawn and visible. Castile dies on camera–again, live on Facebook. The girlfriend, Lavish Reynolds, is extraordinarily calm–much calmer than the police officer–as she narrates the video.

 

After a few minutes, the officers direct Reynolds to get out of the car. The video continues until her phone apparently is taken by an officer and thrown into the grass. But it isn’t turned off, and you can still hear the dialogue between Reynolds and policemen. After a few minutes a young girl, I believe Reynolds’ daughter, retrieves the phone and returns it to (I think) her mother. The video concludes with Reynolds in the back seat of a police car, again narrating what happened.

 

Reynolds’ story is that they were stopped for a broken tail light. The “Chinese” police officer, as described by Reynolds, approached their vehicle and asked to see Castile’s license and registration. Castile told the policeman that he had a carry permit and was carrying a gun. The officer then told Castile to put his hands up, and while he was doing so, the officer (as yet unidentified) shot him. Reynolds says they weren’t doing anything wrong, just had “a little weed” in the car.

 

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Meanwhile In Chicago

 

Violence in Chicago is reaching epidemic proportions. In the first five months of 2016, someone was shot every two and a half hours and someone murdered every 14 hours, for a total of nearly 1,400 nonfatal shooting victims and 240 fatalities. Over Memorial Day weekend, 69 people were shot, nearly one per hour, dwarfing the previous year’s tally of 53 shootings over the same period. The violence is spilling over from the city’s gang-infested South and West Sides into the downtown business district; Lake Shore Drive has seen drive-by shootings and robberies.

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We shall see on the Minn case. All the info is from the girlfriend, not on the video (as it is after the fact). So far their was a gun found, the local sheriff, who would issue carry permit says there was none for him. The girlfriend just 2 days earlier filmed herself smoking an entire doobie in the car with him AND HER 4 year old girl in backseat. Not confirmed is a robbery 2 blocks away by two black men with guns (one who looks similar in grainy footage with same glasses and rasta hair) a couple of days earlier.

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http://www.kare11.com/news/police-scanner-audio-1/267042738

 

From scanner, cop thought he looked like robbery suspect, reason for stop.

 

Supposedly the cop was Hispanic if that matters in the race baiting going on.

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4th of July. This is the Minnesota guy who got shot, his girlfriend, now changed finance, soon to be changed to wife, probably to get millions from the city.

It is very sad. You probably won't get far enough into the video, but both adults are smoking and the 4 year old in the back seat shows off her fireworks her "parents" are about to let her use.

I'm not sure why she still has custody with this video out. I'll be flippant and say she won't care about custody with her new found millions from the city.

 

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b95_1468030677

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She's very patriotic. She's wearing her cute 4th of July outfit.

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July 9, 2016

Narrative starts to fall apart in Minnesota police shooting

By Thomas Lifson

Much of what we think we know about the shooting of Philando Castile by police in Minnesota is false. But we shouldn’t be surprised, because the media sticks to The Narrative. You know, the near mandatory narrative that the American media can apply to any instance of a white person (or even a “White Hispanic”) killing a black person. An innocent and sympathetic black person has been victimized by white racism. We saw this in the deaths of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, with significant facts utterly repressed by the media. In the Trayvon Martin death, “sundance” of The Conservative Treehouse did the hard work of investigative journalism and became the leading source of information on the trial of George Zimmerman. Sundance has credibility in my book.

 

His work has now led him to debunk significant aspects of the narrative we have heard about the police shooting in Falcon Heights, Minnesota:

 

The Falcon Heights, Minnesota police shooting of Philando Castile is based around an entirely false narrative. Castile and Ms. Diamond Reynolds (Facebook video uploader) were pulled over by police because Castile matched a BOLO Alert for an armed robbery suspect from four days prior. http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/07/narrative_starts_to_fall_apart_in_minnesota_police_shooting.html

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Rioters Injure 21 Policemen In St. Paul

John Hinderaker

July 10, 2016

 

Hundreds of Black Limes Matter rioters shut down Highway 94, a major interstate that connects Minneapolis and St. Paul, for several hours last night. The rioters bombarded police with chunks of concrete, pieces of rebar and other hard objects, injuring 21 police officers. One policeman suffered a broken vertebrae when a concrete block was dropped on his head from above. Around 100 rioters were arrested.

 

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When mass murderer Micah Johnson struck during a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas, a stark line was drawn between the peaceful protesters–everyone except Johnson–and the murderer. But it doesn’t take long for those lines to be blurred. Many of the hundreds of rioters who closed down Highway 94 were evidently willing to be murderers, as their concrete blocks and rebar could easily have killed one or more policemen. In truth, on the Left there is not a sharp division between the violent and the non-violent, but rather a continuum that runs from demonstrators to protesters to rioters to looters to rock throwers to arsonists to killers. There is no such thing as a political Left without violence.

 

Rest assured that we will see plenty more violence before the Black Lives Matter movement has served its political purpose and is put to rest.

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Officer Acquitted In Shooting That Drew Worldwide Publicity

John Hinderaker

June 16, 2017

 

Last July, police officer Jeronimo Yanez stopped a vehicle that was being driven by Philando Castile, with Castile’s girlfriend and her daughter as passengers. The officer and Castile had an exchange in which Castile said he had a gun. Yanez later testified that he ordered Castile not to reach for the gun, but Castile disobeyed that order and grabbed for it in the front pocket of his shorts. Yanez, who testified that he was in fear for his life, then shot Castile fatally. The case drew worldwide attention, mostly because Castile’s girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, livestreamed the immediate aftermath of the shooting on Facebook.

It later developed that Castile had a carry permit, but also was high on marijuana (as was Reynolds), which would have made his possession at the time of the incident illegal.

Local authorities charged the officer, Jeronimo Yanez, with second degree manslaughter and reckless discharge of a firearm. The case came to trial in Ramsey County this month. Upon its conclusion, the jury deliberated for five days. It returned a not guilty verdict this afternoon.

Following the verdict, one of the jurors said that the initial vote had been 10-2 for acquittal, but it it took five days for the two holdouts to go along with the other ten. There were two African-Americans on the jury, neither of whom was one of the two holdouts.

The acquittal of Yanez doesn’t seem surprising. The charge of second-degree manslaughter doesn’t seem quite apt for what happened:

 

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Edward Stringham on Radically Rethinking Police

06/23/2017 / AUDIO/VIDEO

Edward Stringham / Jeff Deist

Ed Stringham and Jeff Deist discuss why the US criminal justice system is broken, and how private security firms could create vastly better outcomes. 

 

https://mises.org/library/edward-stringham-radically-rethinking-police 

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Draggingtree

 

From The You Can't Make It Up Fast Enough file.....................................

 

The Joneses

Mitch Berg

July 27 2017

“Police Reform” is suddenly the hot ticket in Minneapolis’ mayoral “race”:

State Rep. Ray Dehn has called for police to be “disarmed.”

Mayor Betsy Hodges just ousted her embattled police chief.

Nekima Levy-Pounds is demanding a “paradigm shift” in police culture in Minneapolis

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Pounds For Mayor

 

Given MPLS is Berkeley with windchill....It would not surprise me if she won....or at a minimum did well.