how is that any different then someone telling you they are bringing a gun to class tomorrow and you giving them a thumbs up?

Killing yourself is not illegal.

Villain in the texting story is indeed a villain, but apparently an anorexic child who cuts herself, has talked about suicide and has had strong reactions to psychiatric medication. I don't have a strong feeling about whether what she did is involuntary manslaughter or not and if so what her punishment should be.

Cop on the other hand is not just an adult, but a cop and that comes with a duty to serve and protect and to provide for equal protection for all citizens. Irrational fear is no justification and he should have been found guilty of murder. Worse than the lack of justice in this case imo is that more innocent people will be killed by cowardly police.

Well... in 2012 in Indiana, a pregnant woman tried to kill herself with rat poison. It caused a hemorrhage in her fetus, killing it, whereupon the state of Indiana charged her with homicide for killing the unborn baby. (Prosecutors later offered a plea deal for misdemeanor criminal recklessness, which was accepted).

Related:

Alabama's crackdown on pregnant marijuana users
http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/in...n_pregnan.html

Yeah, those "chemical endangerment" laws are similar to the fetal homicide law in that originally they were designed for another purpose (in the case of fetal homicide, to prosecute men who beat their partners to an extent that caused fetal death).

While I obviously wouldn't recommend using marijuana during pregnancy, evidence that it does serious damage is actually surprisingly thin on the ground.

Even my racist in-laws (less racist than my parents) agreed that the Castillo was ****ed up...I think they are starting to see how injustice works in America, even if they don't particularly care for black People

At some point someone is gonna get pulled over by a cop, the cop will get shot, and the shooter will claim he was afraid that he was going to get shot for no reason by a trigger happy cop, like Philando Castile did. He was in absolute fear for his life, so he had to do it. Somehow, I doubt the jury that hears that is going to apply the same logic this one just did.

That would never, or rarely(?), fly.

The jury doesn't always apply that logic even for no-knock warrants of innocent people (where the presumption should be strongest). There was a good series by the nytimes recently, e.g. Murder or Self-Defense if
Officer Is Killed in Raid?

I read those stories. Good articles.

Neither of those people were innocent per se (low level drug grower/dealer) but the use of a no-knock warrant and the disproportionate amount of force led to the deaths of two police officers and the lives ruined of the the low level criminals. Of course the white one got off with 18 months in jail and the black one will get life.

There obviously are times where a no-knock warrant and overwhelming force is necessary, but not against low level drug dealers.

i know i shouldn't be surprised but it's truly unreal that a cop can initiate a traffic stop and then walk up to the car and start blasting the passenger for no ****ing reason, and it's not even considered manslaughter. "goddamn america" is right- anybody who is proud to be an american nowadays is either racist, stupid, or both

Ho lee F. Dashcam is cray.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.0543919fc055

That's the worst one yet. Soon we'll just see cops firing into groups of black people unprovoked and they will be declared NOT GUILTY

That makes me nauseous. If a cop can be acquitted with that video, then there is nothing they can't do.

Uh...... wow.

The jury saw the video, right?

It's a bad scene, but you can see the cops line right? Guy says he has a firearm on him, then starts getting something off his person...

Absolutely not. The guy said he had a gun to warn the cop. That's no reason to make the cop think he's in danger. People reach for their license and registration all the time when they are pulled over. People are allowed to have guns in this country.

Cop was way to cowardly for the job, if not before he became a cop, then the cowardice was trained into him. He should be in prison now.

From a legal standpoint, the cop can say the guy reached and there's no evidence either way on that. This is why we need bodycams on every cop in America.

From a common sense standpoint, it took 6-7 seconds to start firing and he fired seven rounds... Meanwhile a child was in the backseat, likely IN THE LINE OF FIRE. It's a miracle he didn't also kill the child. Also, the cop clearly freaked out and neglected some common sense firearm safety - sticking his gun through the window has to be a big no-no right? You don't want the end of your gun within arm's reach of the target if they are dangerous.

From a common sense standpoint, who would announce that they have a gun before killing a cop?

Did they poll the jury? I'm curious if this was 11-1 or something, and one holdout was in there saying "Well, he might have reached."

If I was black and pulled over at this point, I'd leave my hands on the steering wheel and ask to be handcuffed for my own safety so that they had no reason to think I was a danger. That's how messed up it's gotten.

Remember that guy who thought cops would welcome bodycams because it would show how they are in the right almost every time? That was one of my fave politard posts of last year.

Absolutely not for a trained officer of the law. Castillo does everything right and both he and girlfriend are pleading that he is not reaching for it as the cop escalates and starts firing. If he says nothing and the officer sees the gun we get the same outcome and you're in here asking why he didn't say anything about the gun.

I could see how a cowardly racist might take this "line" but I'd expect him to rot in prison for doing so.

Probably hornbug who will be in here soon enough (if he's not banned) telling us how the jury got it right.

The video after the shooting has the gf saying "you asked him for his license" in a way to explain what he was reaching for. The cop is going on simple cues and someone reaching for something who could be armed is a trigger, and this guy just assured him he was definitely armed.

These cops are simpletons, and not using game theory here.

Note for the record that the NRA will go full court press to prevent any restrictions on firearms purchases, but the NRA gives no ****s about this man being executed for lawfully possessing a firearm. A pretty severe infringement on his 2A rights.

Note also the man executed was black. The 2nd amendment is for white people only.