Black Man Killed by Cops For Selling CDS

[Evelisse]

nah man, I'm pretty sure we'd all be talking about a slew of upper class white men being seemingly unjustifiably executed by police supposedly trained to deal with crisis situations.

The cop in Falcon Heights video is freaking the **** out, compared to the civilian woman who just watched her boyfriend get shot who was composed enough to keep filming.

 

[Sawyer]

https://***********/ThomasLS/status/750923183268716548?lang=en

Thomas L. Strickland
‏@ThomasLS
#PhilandoCastile had a conceal-carry permit. Announced it. Pro conceal-carry groups should be on fire tonight.

I doubt we'll hear a thing.

https://***********/johnlegend/status/750928468125245440?lang=en

John Legend
‏@johnlegend
Let's go NRA. I know y'all are for the 2nd amendment. Are you also for equal protection?

https://***********/AoDespair/status/750935192060170240?lang=en

David Simon
‏@AoDespair
THIS. Gun culture is arrayed as social control against people of color. They dare to invoke same control, they die.

 

[VelcroWallet]

Please tell me I'm not the only that noticed a gun still pointed at a man whos been shot four times.

 

[Asgard]

Please tell me I'm not the only that noticed a gun still pointed at a man whos been shot four times.

Lil piggy was scared.

 

[LoganGambit87]

Thomas L. Strickland
‏@ThomasLS
So many terrified cops.
All of 'em, fearing for their life.
Afraid of CDs and taillights and cigarettes and toys and things only they see.

https://***********/ThomasLS/status/750918055757217792

 

[Chesterfield]

Well to be fair, cops do kill black people under dubious pretenses with alarming regularity. But I do think it's worth looking at individual cases.

Take Michael Brown, everyone seemed to ignore the fact that moments before the shooting, he had robbed a store. Then there were claims that he was shot with his hands up, saying "don't shoot", which turned out to be false. Something that protestors are still referencing as if it were factual.

This case, seems similar to me. It's been 24 hours, and we already know that Sterling was a violent felon, a registered sex offender and apparently concealing an illegal weapon.

I'm as skeptical of police as the next guy, but it might be better to wait before declaring the man a victim of racist police brutality.

The guy's criminal background is irrelevant. The fact is cops had the immediate situation in hand. They were on top of him and had him subdued; they also tasered the guy and STILL shot the guy multiple times at close range. That's straight up murder from a bunch of p**** ass cops.

 

[samsnee]

So the second video is pretty cut and dry that the cops were wrong here. There's even a pause after the first couple of shots before there are two more. That makes no sense. It's just disturbing.

 

[samsnee]

The moment you get that call, you're prepared to use deadly force.

Again, I do think the cops acted poorly here, but it's not like he had a wallet in his pocket.

I also wonder about the officers not knowing his background. He was a regular according to the shop owner, and police presumably kept some tabs on him given his impressive rap sheet. He had a physical altercation with the police in the past. It's a possibility at least.

Show me where he had a gun in his hand that justified multiple shooting from those cops.


http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/alton-sterling-second-video.html

 

[MadVillainy]

Honestly not sure what can be done to immediately change this situation of people getting gunned down. Proper police reporm would take decades I think

 

[RockSP]

Then we're talking about guys who might've had jail time coming to them, not a body bag.

Exactly. People kill me with this "if you have a past criminal record, it's okay for cops to execute you" mentality. Brown stole some cigars. Meanwhile this guy actually pulls a gun on cops and "miraculously" is not put to death on the spot: http://www.wral.com/man-charged-with-shooting-at-wake-deputy/15832777/

 

[RockSP]

It seems like you're hearing more about blacks being the victims of police brutality. Has this always been an unseen issue, or was there recently an uptick of cop on blacks violence?

There has never been a time in the history of this country when police were not brutal towards black people.

 

[terry78]

Now this **** in Minnesota. It's just coming out more because people know how to use that HDR function on their phones.

 

[BeserkerHilf]

As a 10+ year videographer, I hope you're joking.

 

[terry78]

That was sarcasm but yeah .

 

[Lencho01]

Honestly, the fury over this kind of s*** should've hit a fever pitch when the cops gunned down the kid playing with his toy gun literally a half second after pulling up on him. Sterling, Michael Brown.... they're gonna dig for any dirt they can find to make the killing seem justified. What justification do these open carry-supporting motherf***ers have for executing a preteen playing with his toy?

It's things like that that makes one much less hopeful for any positive changes.

 

[Rocketman]

I'm enraged about all this. It's disgusting. And nothing is going to happen as a result of it.

The citizens need to do something, man. There are more of us than them. We could take back this damn country tomorrow if we wanted to, but we won't. It can't just be one person or one group of 20 or 30, it needs to be everyone. A total uprising. But everyone wants to kick back and watch America's Got Talent instead.

DO SOMETHING.

 

[craigdbfan]

For one the title of the thread should be changed. The title already implicates guilt on the officers part.

The clearest video shows this convicted felon (for one of the most disgusting crimes of carnal knowledge. Not to mention he was also arrested for battery charges) reaching for his gun. He gets a hold of his gun and the cops still don't shot even with guns drawn and then he decides to start firing off as he's still tussling around on the ground and that's when the officers shoot to neutralize any collateral damage.

Nothing wrong was done here for the exception that this guy shouldn't of have been out on the streets to begin with.

It shows how upside down things are when a freaking vigil and crap is held for a convicted sex offender pedophile.

These officers did nothing wrong and thankfully that latest video exonerates them.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

They might have had video cameras on phones for 10+ years but people didn't start recording the police frequently until after Trayvon Martin.

That was also the point where the media started exposing police abuse videos more often.

 

[chamber-music]

For shooting an armed criminal?

I mean, yeah, it would have been better if they could have taken him alive. But this isn't murder. You have an illegally armed felon resisting arrest, and by some accounts threatening people with a deadly weapon. In most countries you will be shot, or have your ass beaten into compliance.

The cops didn't know his history though from the sounds of things and the store owner said they came at the suspect aggressively from the get go which probably didn't help them manage the situation all that well.

There was an anonymous tip that he threatened someone with a gun but you can't corroborate that without investigating first.

 

[craigdbfan]

So the second video is pretty cut and dry that the cops were wrong here. There's even a pause after the first couple of shots before there are two more. That makes no sense. It's just disturbing.

Yeah the video is pretty cut and dry and there's a reason for the pause. It's because the officers had their guns drawn and then Sterling decides to fire off wild/random shots while on the ground, it's then when the officers decides to shoot as they're supposed to do.

They would have done the same to any other person guaranteed.

 

[Slushy]

Sex offender, felon, resisting arrest, who may have had a gun in his pocket.

Yes, it was murder, but don't tell me that Bloods member wouldn't have tried something on those cops first.

 

[craigdbfan]

https://***********/ThomasLS/status/750923183268716548?lang=en

https://***********/johnlegend/status/750928468125245440?lang=en

https://***********/AoDespair/status/750935192060170240?lang=en

The permit hasn't been legal for a while then because a convicted felon isn't permitted to have a CCP. So he still very much had an illegally obtained firearm on him.

 

[Unbreakable Lex]

Where is the NRA to defend Castille's right to carry? The NRA should be all over this since it seems a man that listened to their call was shot and killed for it.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

For one the title of the thread should be changed. The title already implicates guilt on the officers part.

The clearest video shows this convicted felon (for one of the most disgusting crimes of carnal knowledge. Not to mention he was also arrested for battery charges) reaching for his gun. He gets a hold of his gun and the cops still don't shot even with guns drawn and then he decides to start firing off as he's still tussling around on the ground and that's when the officers shoot to neutralize any collateral damage.

Nothing wrong was done here for the exception that this guy shouldn't of have been out on the streets to begin with.

It shows how upside down things are when a freaking vigil and crap is held for a convicted sex offender pedophile.

These officers did nothing wrong and thankfully that latest video exonerates them.

There might be gray areas with the Sterling shooting.

But the Falcon Heights video shows exactly why black people in general complain about the police.

It's a shame the media is focused on the armed convict who resisted arrest instead of the completely innocent man killed after complying with the police.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

The permit hasn't been legal for a while then because a convicted felon isn't permitted to have a CCP. So he still very much had an illegally obtained firearm on him.

Sawyer's tweets are about the Minnesota (Falcon Heights) shooting.