I'm suggesting there are factors behind why the officer freaked out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aimless
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I'm suggesting there are factors behind why the officer freaked out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aimless
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Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
He told the cop he had a gun, he was told not to reach for it, he replies that he's *inaudible* reaching ... At that point ideally he could have told the cop he had a gun and then held his hands still rather than reach into his pocket. He shouldn't have been shot for reaching into his pocket though.Quote:
So this was all done in seven seconds. Seven seconds elapsed between Castile saying he has a gun, the officer putting his hands on his own holster after being told that, then the suspect reaching for something while the officer repeatedly shouts "don't reach for it" "don't pull it out" "don't pull it out!" and fires all of the fatal bullets. The final bullet being fired during that seven second window. Not minutes of deliberation but a snap action within seven seconds.Quote:
9:05:52-9:05:55 — Castile tells Yanez: "Sir, I have to tell you that I do have a firearm on me." Castile interrupts to say "OK" and places right hand on holstered gun.
9:05:55-9:06:02 — Yanez says, "OK, don't reach for it, then." Castile says, "I'm ... I'm ... (inaudible) reaching ... Yanez interrupts to say, "Don't pull it out." Castile says: "I'm not pulling it out." His girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, says, "He's not pulling it out." Yanez shouts: "Don't pull it out!" Yanez draws his gun with right hand while reaching inside driver's window with left. Yanez removes left arm from car, fires seven shots, the last at 9:06:02.
I'm not sure what I'd do in that situation but I'd think if I was in the suspects position and I'd been pulled over and said that I had a gun and was told not to reach for it that I would keep my hands damn still and make no sudden movements until told to do so. Not sure why he chose to say that then start reaching for his pocket.
So... there were no sudden movements like you claimed? :|
Define sudden.
The transcript describes him putting his hands in his pocket after saying he has a gun and the officer telling him not to reach for his gun and then shooting him all within seven seconds.
https://www.google.com/search?q=sudd...define:+sudden
Pretty much the opposite of what happened. This should be common sense seeing how not a single article or writeup described Castile's actions as "sudden movements" and you completely pulled that claim out of your ass, as I described above, as a form of justification and victim blaming.
Or does it usually take you 7 seconds to reach into your pocket? :bulb:
It didn't take seven seconds for him to reach into his pocket. :bulb:
It took seven seconds to have him reach into his pocket, be shouted at not to, all the subsequent shouting and then all the fatal bullets to be fired. Yes that seems to have all occurred or done quickly.
Few--or perhaps even none--of which justify his actions to people who don't love trigger-happy cops.Quote:
Originally Posted by RandBlade
I don't love trigger happy cops, I empathise for cops who have been shot at or seen friends shot at why they may be trigger happy.
You are claiming it is self-defense so long as the cop feels fear because others on the force may have been shot, and therefore he shouldn't be convicted of anything. I take it you're willing to grant the same rationale and defense to every black man who is stopped by a cop and shoots them first? Because if anything has been shown, it's that THEY are the ones who should be in fear of their lives in such situations, not the cops.
I'd like to see some numerical evidence for that.
You have already been shown that evidence. In any given encounter between a cop and a black man, the black guy is more likely to die.
The cop is far more likely to die than any random black man is. Though indeed innocent people have far fewer interactions with the police.
According to that well-known cop-loving fanatical right-wing Murdoch paper the Guardian, there were 6.64 blacks per million killed by the US Police in 2016: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...oung-black-men
There were 62 fatal shootings of law enforcement officers by the public from a population of 900,000 officers. That makes a total of 68.89 cops per million killed by the public in 2016: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...hootings-2016/
Worth remembering that many of the shootings by the Police are undeniably justifiable shootings. The Washington Post has an interesting archive where you can read about each of the shootings and skimming through them a very large proportion seem justified. If we take out the justified shootings then the proportion would be even further different.
If you've got maths that shows anything different then please demonstrate the working out.
You should read the methodology section more closely.
Not seeing a methodology section on the link I provided and you've not provided one but here is a summary.
Versus 68.89 deaths per million cops in 2016. On a comparable per million basis there are ten cop deaths for each black death.Quote:
Black
2016 6.64
2015 7.69
White
2016 2.9
2015 2.95
Hispanic/Latino
2016 3.23
2015 3.45
Asian/Pacific Islander
2016 1.17
2015 1.34
Native American
2016 10.13
2015 5.49*
*In 2015, there were fewer than 20 Native Americans killed by police. Source: The Counted
That's without even taking into account the fact that many of the deaths inflicted by cops have stories like this:
EDIT: Video here showing a kill in a very different light as it saves the hostage. But its included in these black lives matter statistics as a black man killed by cops, while I'd class it as a mother saved by cops. http://abcnews.go.com/US/dramatic-vi...ry?id=36711677Quote:
Christopher Michael Dew, a 29-year-old black man armed with a gun, was shot on Jan. 29, 2016, in a store in Irving, Tex. Irving police responded to a report of a robbery in progress at a check cashing store. Dew was armed with a shotgun and holding a female employee hostage next to a vehicle.
First flaw. You're counting only black men shot by all police but you're counting all police shot by anyone. Except I'm looking at your links and I'm not finding even THAT claimed statistic in it. There are all sorts of flaws with the ways you're massaging your data besides the fact that you're leaving it completely unsourced and apparently made up, of course.Quote:
Originally Posted by RandBlade
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/2...9L8a01b6bu&s=1
A jury of your RandBlades.
Apologies I copied and pasted the wrong link. The WaPo link was meant to be on the next paragraph, the link for that paragraph was here: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...d-2016-averageQuote:
Originally Posted by LittleFuzzy
The cop should have allowed himself to be crushed to death by a moving vehicle instead.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aimless
Especially since we know a large number of police officers are killed by far right (white) extremists.Quote:
Originally Posted by LittleFuzzy
https://www.adl.org/sites/default/fi...?itok=XJJspUkt
Your apologetics for just about every scenario in which a black man gets killed by a cop borders on racism, Rand.Quote:
Originally Posted by RandBlade
Incidentally you're wrong on the flaw. We're counting all people shot by all police (regardless of race) then that is getting broken down into by race do differentiate between how that affects blacks and whites shot. But the Police aren't shooting at only blacks, they're shooting at suspects. Some of those suspects are white, some are black. Most are white, a disproportionate amount are black. So the corollary of suspects shot by cops is cops shot by suspects. The fact that only some of those suspects are black is neither here nor there since the cops aren't shooting only at black suspects.Quote:
Originally Posted by LittleFuzzy
You mean the one that has almost 1/3 of those deaths coming from "ambush-style" attacks like the Dallas sniper that don't bear the slightest resemblance to the situations we're talking about? And let's note that you're also including friendly fire incidents in that total too. The total death rate from police shootings is close to 1 in 1000 US citizens. That's significantly higher than your claimed statistic. You want to compare the black men to the total population of the US for some reason. That says more about how many African-Americans there are in the US population than what you're trying to claim.Quote:
Originally Posted by RandBlade
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...al-arrest-aclu
More great policing for Lewk and Rand. Though they'd be disappointed to know this guy wasn't killed.
One third are ambush style but two thirds are not. And 2016s figures despite the inclusion of so many ambush styles are below the long term average.Quote:
Originally Posted by LittleFuzzy
I'm not including friendly fire. Total deaths were 64, 2 were friendly fire so I used the number 62. I took the friendly fire out of the total already.
Let's see a source for your 1 in 1000 US citizens please.
No I didn't compare black men to the total US population. The black death rate is per million blacks not per million Americans.
So... which statistic does this fall under?
But seriously everyone, try to imagine how many industries would be utterly and completely destroyed if employees were justified to go all Judge Dread because they may heard a story about some other guy getting hurt or (gasp) killed while on the job.
Friendly Fire.
How many other industries have employees legally allowed to kill? Only alternative I can think of is the military and they have even worse levels of friendly fire and collateral damage.
Zoos, park rangers, pretty much anything that works around firearms, wildlife, or explores. Self defense goes a long way in the US. We've had people attacked and hospitalized in our libraries, should I start mowing people down?
Rand's current argument:
Zoo Rangers will generally kill an animal before letting themselves die. As much as it is a last resort.
Anywhere I've worked the advice was always not to tackle an offender, that's the Police's job not yours. The counter to that is that it IS their job. If you were to take down someone in self defence you would be able to use that defence though.
American police:
http://imgur.com/a/gqv0j
When life gives you bad apples...
Which is what we would hope a police officer would do, but you've spent several pages so far defending them not doing. Congrats on missing the point. caged animals > black legally armed men, gotcha. Same point was missed concerning self defense when the bar to meet is what has been set with Castile.Quote:
Originally Posted by RandBlade
Very skilful, impressive to be able to pull off a shot like that while fearing death.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steely Glint
The appropriate statistic to look at is the risk for any given person in any given encounter. Cops have many encounters per day and yet only 45 cops per million were shot to death by the public, in 2016.Quote:
Originally Posted by RandBlade
Incidentally, it is distasteful to see you continually ignore the fact that innocent black people are more likely than white people to be targeted by cops, and that cops are more likely to use inappropriate--and especially lethal--force on black people than on white people.
I'm just going to be an ass and say it - most people killed in police shootings have criminal records. Hardly the definition of 'innocent' even if the act in question shouldn't have resulted in death.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aimless
Pretty sure it often IS the definition of "innocent" Lewk. Having a criminal record means you've been found guilty of a crime in the past, it has absolutely no bearing on whether you're guilty of something when you get shot. Someone who committed a robbery 20 years ago is just a innocent as you are. Probably more so, considering your blackened soul.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewkowski
You're not a fan of the Bill of Rights, are you? Hint: it doesn't make a distinction between people with and without a criminal record.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewkowski
I suspect you don't realize precisely why that makes you sound like an ass in this particular case.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewkowski
Even if that weren't bullshit in its own right, it's still bullshit because it's excusing trigger happy cops on the basis of information they couldn't possibly have when they pulled the trigger.
http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news...rial/93199114/Quote:
Originally Posted by RandBlade
