Patrol Col. Matt Langer, joining the mayor and police chief at the Sunday morning news media briefing, said, “The freeway is not one of those places” where people on foot are allowed, whether for objective of protest or under any circumstance.
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In Oakland, California, police ceded a highway to protesters last week and did not stop them from shutting it down. The actions on Highway 94 were far from a peaceful protest.
Even if police argues that the shootings were “justified”, the fact that similar events keep occurring displays a tangible flaw in the American system of justice. Many are angry after two black men were shot to death by police. The Minnesota officer’s lawyer declared that his client thought Castile was pulling out a gun and fired preventively. Brown fled, and Wilson chased him.
Axtell was even more blunt, starting his comments by holding up a piece of concrete as an example of what his officers confronted. “Get out of the protest line and put an application in”. In the end, the police report registered that actually, Brown did raise his hands before he charged toward Wilson.
This is what Americans saw, how they mourned and came together. Many expressed outrage over yet another black man killed by those sworn to serve and protect. However, a group called Stop the Killing had caught the whole thing on video and had the forethought to wait for the police to tell their side of the story before showing the world what really happened.
As The Huffington Post reported, Sterling had sold CDs in front of the store for years. Police officers are now trying to decipher their meaning. But were there no memorials for the murdered black men anywhere to be found? Officials were pointing at Sterling in the chest at point-blank range when he allegedly pulled out a gun from his backside. It is correct that Sterling was a felon with a past criminal history who was illegally carrying a firearm. Last week, Castile was driving a auto and was with his girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, when they were pulled over for a broken taillight.
“Valerie Castile and her family are very passionate and committed to ensuring that Philando’s death is not just another statistic”, Hatchett said in the release.
Reynolds said that the officer said “don’t move”, but Castile reached for his back pocket, to which Yanez reacted and shot him in the arm “four to five times”.
Clarence Castile spoke to the Star Tribune from the Hennepin County Medical Center, where he said his nephew died minutes after arriving.
After a 24-year-old black man, Jamar Clark, was fatally shot in November in a confrontation with two white officers in Minneapolis, police sometimes clashed with protesters camped outside a police station.
Reynolds broadcast the aftermath of the deadly encounter on Facebook Live – an incident that fueled national tensions around cop violence and policing of minorities. We see Castile’s blood-soaked shirt; we hear him groan and watch his head drop.
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On July 7, Reserve Army veteran Micah Johnson killed five police officers from Dallas.
But there are differences of opinion about the Black Lives Matter movement.
When Johnson was barricaded in the parking garage, he told police he acted alone, Jenkins said. He claimed that he was upset about the shootings that occurred the previous days. Explosives placed by a police-controlled robot were used to kill the suspect after failed negotiation attempts. Campaign Zero and other activist groups have identified these laws, as well as police union contracts granting an extra layer of protections to police, as key roadblocks to police accountability.
Hundreds of protesters blocked roads and ramps at the Bay Bridge in San Francisco.
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Roughly half of the arrests happened during that standoff. By contrast, unofficial databases suggest Canadian police kill about 20 people a year. Kicking off from Oxford Circus, London, where crowds marched toward the U.S. Embassy chanting “No justice, no peace” and “Hands up”. Our parents teach us to be docile and extraneously polite when dealing with cops and white people. Officers from across Texas made the drive, pouring in from Austin and San Antonio and Mesquite to honor their fallen brothers and promise they would use their deaths to fuel their desire to be better officers themselves.
