“Even as yesterday I spoke about our need to be concerned as all Americans about racial disparities in our criminal justice system, I also said yesterday that our police have an extraordinarily hard job and the vast majority of them do their job in outstanding fashion”.
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Sterling’s and Castile’s families denounced the attack on the Dallas officers.
WCCO is learning more about the officers involved in the shooting of Philando Castile Wednesday night in Falcon Heights. The organization said it would not comment during the ongoing investigation, but “rest assured, the NRA will have more to say once all the facts are known”.
A Minnesota prosecutor says there must be better interactions between police and African-Americans.
One of the most sensitive situations involves people sharing violent or graphic images of events taking place in the real world. However, the process isn’t as clear for what the process is if people think a video was wrongly removed.
The St. Paul police department also began mandating on Thursday afternoon that officers work 12-hour shifts vs. their regular 10-hour shifts, Linders said.
The following night, five police officers were fatally shot and others were wounded during protests in Dallas over Castile’s killing and the fatal police shooting of 37-year-old black man Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, after a scuffle with officers outside a convenience store. Portions of that shooting were also caught on video.
Still, he said, said his 12-year-old son wants to be a police officer.
Still, Reynolds’s live stream briefly disappeared from Facebook shortly after she recorded it, prompting some Twitter users to accuse the social network of censorship. “There isn’t a black man I know – and there isn’t a Puerto Rican man I know – who didn’t have to tell their children at the age of 4 about police”, Small said.
You shot four bullets into him, sir. “He was just getting his license and registration, sir”, the woman responds.
Jeanine Bell, an Indiana University professor who authored “Policing Hatred: Law Enforcement, Civil Rights, and Hate Crime”, said the week will not go down as a pivotal point unless it leads to substantive change by police that goes beyond simply diversifying forces and introducing anti-bias training.
Falcon Heights contracts with St. Anthony for its police services.
According to the BCA, Yanez approached the vehicle from the driver’s side and Kauser from the passenger side.
Thomas says Yanez has no disciplinary action against him during his time with department, and says he is “community oriented and devoted to the police department”, with a “reputation of being a kind and generous man with empathy”.
“For this guy’s lawyer to say it’s not a race problem, after the governor admitted it was a race problem, after the president had addressed the race problem in the country – it’s an attempt to remove responsibility away from the officer”, Turner said. A day later, another is fatally shot by an officer in Minnesota during a traffic stop over a tail light.
Kelly said in a separate interview with the Associated Press that Officer Jeronimo Yanez was reacting to “the presence of that gun and the display of that gun” when he shot Castile multiple times.
The previous year’s report includes a photo of Yanez solemnly standing guard at a memorial to fallen officers at the state Capitol.
An attorney for Castile’s family, Larry Rogers, didn’t immediately return a call seeking comment on Kelly’s remarks. Dayton said he and other state officials would ask for stronger federal involvement in the case. She recalled cautioning him to always comply with police, but she said she never thought she would lose him.
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“This has to cease. This has to stop, right now”, she told the crowd. The group swelled to over 1,000 for a time late Thursday, as people marched from the school vigil. “We don’t want insane stuff”. “That is when we are going to start working to get serious justice”. “Today is a wrenching reminder of the sacrifices that they make for us”. “That’s cool but we are bothered as fans, and we are hurting, and you have the platform and opportunity to speak to people all over the world and make differences and simple statements”.
