I said quite plainly I didn't hear the testimony
It was mentioned several times in this thread that he testified that he never saw a gun and that he was reaching into his pocket with his hands in a "C shape".
Maybe something's wrong with your monitor as well. Maybe it's an html problem at this point. Godfather, can you look into this?
Yeah, the officer said he knew where the hands were, but wasn't sure what Castille was reaching for. I believe he said that too. How do you process that fact? Please. Tell me how you know. Were you there? Could you see his hands? Did he keep reaching for something after you told him not to? Did Cam get paid?
I'm not making any assumption that counters anything the officer said. I heard the audio, saw the video, and am taking his testimony on what transpired in the car at his word. I could hear in the video that he asked him to provide ID. I could hear in the video that he said he was reaching for it. I could hear in the video that he also calmly informed the officer that he had a licensed firearm in the car. I could hear in the video that when the officer said "Don't reach for it", he said "I'm not reaching for it..." and then BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
What is inaccurate or conjecture in that?
Again, I'm taking the officer's word that he was probably reaching into his breast pocket, where his ID was, which he was just asked to present.
This is where I can see what others are saying. You're so invested in proving that you're not a racist that you actually end up being one. In reverse. You assumed the officer shot the guy because he fit a profile. Maybe he did. But to put yourself in the jury, hearing only what the media reported and seeing only the video and declaring with absolute certainty that there was some racial intent or whatever? Bollocks.
How many hundred or so times do I have to explicitly say that anywhere you thought you saw that I "assumed the officer shot the guy because he fit a profile" or claimed "there was some racial intent or whatever", was in your fever dream, not in reality. I not only never said it, which would be enough for your repeated insistance that I did be asinine. But I have repeatedly clarified that that was never my position. Fuck's sake...
That being said, the officer ALSO testified that he did this
because he "fit a profile" of a robbery suspect. So while you insist that I'm projecting this on him, A) I never said it, and B)
HE actually did say it.
I personally think the cop was out of line based on what the media's told me. I think he got spooked and freaked completely out. He didn't need to half empty the clip for sure.
This is exactly what I said before you and CCTAU ran it through your imaginary straw man filter.
I don't think you can underestimate context however. This happened in the middle of a very tense period, one exacerbated by our so-called president essentially declaring open season on police officers. There had been a recent rash of officers gunned down while performing routine tasks. I don't think there's any question the kid (and he was just a kid) was at a heightened sense of alarm and awareness. Nobody wants to die on the street because they were too nice or too lenient to somebody with bad intentions and that's where we were at that time. Police officers were dying.
So this excuses it? I doubt you'd chalk this specific incident up to clerical error if that were a family member in that car.