I’m saddened and disappointed in THIS America – we should be further along …
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Two black men have been shot in confrontations with officers in Louisiana and Minnesota since Tuesday. Graphic video of that incident caused an outcry on social media.
In Mr Sterling’s case, a police statement claimed that the cops received a tip from an anonymous caller who said they had been threatened by a man with a gun.
The almost 10-minute-long video taken by the African American victim’s girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, and streamed on her Facebook page shows the victim bleeding in a auto after he was shot by the officer multiple times during a traffic stop as the officer continues to point a gun at him. In the video, Diamond’s 4-year-old daughter is watching from the back seat. “It was down due to a technical glitch and restored as soon as we were able to investigate”, a Facebook spokesperson said. “All of us as Americans should be troubled by these shootings, because these are not isolated incidents”.
Obama emphasized that wanting to fix the criminal justice system and supporting police don’t have to be mutually exclusive.
The use of force by police against African-Americans in cities from Ferguson, Missouri, to Baltimore and NY has sparked periodic and sometimes violent protests in the past two years, and has spawned a movement called Black Lives Matter. Anger has intensified when the officers involved in such incidents have been acquitted or not charged at all.
Two snipers opened fire on police officers during protests in Dallas on Thursday night, killing four officers and injuring eight others, the police chief said.
In the video, Diamond can be heard begging with her 32-year-old boyfriend to “stay with her”, with the pair still held at police gunpoint as they sit in the vehicle. “I told him to get his hands up!” the officer shouted.
Blessings to all the families that have lost loved ones to police brutality.
“Nobody should be shot and killed in Minnesota. for a taillight being out of function”, he said, according to The Washington Post.
Other rallies, including one in Atlanta, are planned for today.
People rally in Dallas, Texas, on Thursday, July 7, 2016 to protest the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.
Yanez and Kauser are on standard administrative leave.
This all comes during a discussion in the United States about the killing of black men and women by police officers after the deaths of Travyon Martin in Florida, Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Freddy Gray in Baltimore.
Reynolds continued, “You took him [Castile] away and now you have to pay”.
“Historically, African-Americans have viewed guns kind of like the boogeyman – ‘The master told you not to look at the gun and we shouldn’t touch a gun, ‘” Smith said.
The following day Philando, 32, was shot as he reached for his wallet during a traffic stop in Minnesota.
His comments came a day after Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton jumped into a suddenly reignited national debate over how law enforcement treats people of color, saying police likely wouldn’t have fired if Castile had been white. “This isn’t a matter of us comparing the value of lives; this is recognizing there’s a particular burden being placed on a group of our fellow citizens, and we should care about that”. “They did not check for a pulse at the scene of the crime”.
A Nashville police officer has been decommissioned after he wrote, ‘I would have done five, ‘ in a Facebook post referring to Philando Castile, who died after initial reports stated a policeman shot him four times. “He just shot his arm off”, Reynolds says in the video.
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“Fuck”, a distraught man is heard screaming in the video. “I told him not to reach for it”.
