Alton Sterling shooting: Second video of deadly encounter emerges By Catherine E. Shoichet, Joshua Berlinger and Steve Almasy, CNN Updated 11:13 PM ET, Wed July 6, 2016
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I predict this is going to have huge repercussions
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There's more, separate situation in Minnesota
Woman Facebook live-streams her dying boyfriend seconds after he is shot four times by a cop, as his mother says police kept her from her son's deathbed and claims the girlfriend is now missing
The devastated mother of a black man shot dead by a cop and whose death was live-streamed on Facebook by his girlfriend says she was prevented from seeing him on his deathbed. Valerie Castile (top right), mother of Philando Castile, 32, a cafeteria worker, who was shot in Falcon Heights, Saint Paul, Minnesota on Wednesday night, also claimed theyhave been unable to locate Lavish Reynolds, his girlfriend, since she was arrested by police. The shocking footage of the aftermath of the shooting has sparked protests in Saint Paul, with hundreds of people descending on the Governor of Minnesota's house demanding justice. It is the second controversial police shooting of a black man to emerge in 24 hours. In the video, recorded in Falcon Heights, Lavish Reynolds (left) tells viewers that she and her partner, Philando Castile (bottom right) were pulled over for a busted tail light by a 'Chinese police officer'. She claims the cop asked Castile to show his license, but then shot him four times while he reached for it. As she talks, she moves the camera to show Castile, bloody and losing consciousness (main), and the cop still pointing his gun (inset) as her young daughter sits in the back.
A crowd of around 200 protesters turned up outside Governor Mark Dayton's residence in Saint Paul at 3am demanding for him to 'wake up' and speak to them. They shouted 'no justice, no peace' and video shows them chanting Castile's name over and over in a moving show of unity.
In the video, Reynolds tells viewers that she and Castile were pulled over for a busted tail light by a 'Chinese police officer'. She claims the cop, from the St. Anthony Police Department in Falcon Heights, asked Castile, a cafeteria supervisor at a Montessori school in St Paul, to show his license, but then shot him four times while he reached for it. As she talks, she moves the camera across to show Castile, bloody and losing consciousness, and the cop - still pointing his gun, as her young daughter sits in the back seat. The police officer, who is yet to be identified, been placed on paid leave.
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EXCLUSIVE: Black man whose shooting death by police was streamed live by his girlfriend had been pulled over AT LEAST 31 times and hit with 63 traffic charges
The black man whose shooting death by a police officer was livestreamed on Facebook had been stopped dozens of times by police, Daily Mail Online can reveal.
Relatives of Philando Castile say they believe he was repeatedly targeted by police officers because he was 'DWB' – 'driving while black'.
Castile's death has caused outrage and been condemned by the governor of Minnesota, who said: 'Would this have happened if the passengers were white?'
Now it can be disclosed that Castile, 32, has been pulled over by at least 31 times in the last 14 years since he got his driver's license and charged with a string of misdemeanor violations.
The offenses include speeding, failure to wear a seat belt, driving after a revocation, no proof of insurance, improper display of original plate and parking violations.
In total police in Minnesota brought 31 cases against Castile, racking up 63 charges for mostly minor traffic offenses - 43 of which he was found guilty or convicted of and has paid out hundreds of dollars in fines.
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Castile's girlfriend remained calm and live streamed the aftermath of the fatal shooting on Facebook
Castile was shot in Falcon Heights, a mostly white community of 5,000 served primarily by the nearby St. Anthony Police Department
School cafeteria worker Philando Castile (pictured) was shot fatally shot by a Minnesota police officer during a routine traffic stop in a St. Paul suburb on Wednesday night
GRAPHIC: Woman livestreams moments after police shoot boyfriend
St. Anthony Police Officer Jeronimo Yanez (pictured) was identified as the patrolman who fatally shot Castile during a traffic stop
In 25 of the cases it was police officers from Ramsey County involved - the county within which St Anthony Police Department lies. The records do not disclose the force or forces responsible for the stops.
The scale on which law enforcement seems to have stopped Castile will draw questions over whether the police have been even-handed when dealing with him.
Castile had no criminal record whatsoever beyond the traffic offenses.
Castile's most recent conviction came earlier this year in January after he was accused twice of leaving his vehicle abandoned on 'public/private property without consent'.
It was alleged he had left the vehicle for more than 48 hours. He was convicted of two 'petty misdemeanors' on January 11 and one on January 8.
Days earlier on January 5 he was slapped with another parking charge and convicted for breaching 'snow emergency parking restrictions'.
Every year Castile seemed to have a handful of run-ins with police over minor traffic infractions.
In July last year he was convicted for not wearing a seat belt along with his passenger and the year before, November 2014, he was pulled over and slapped with a charge for 'improper display of original plate'.
Three months earlier he was convicted of stopping his vehicle illegally and had a charge for an expired registration dismissed.
Scene of homicide: Police forensic officers at the car where Philando Castile was shot dead by Officer Jeronimo Yanez
Aftermath: Diamond Reynolds, the dead man's girlfriend, livestreamed from the moments after he was shot until she got out of the car and was handcuffed by officers who had their weapons drawn
The litany of traffic stops stretch back to when he was age 17 and officers from Ramsey County pulled him over for an undisclosed reason.
He was later found guilty of having no proof of insurance, fined $50 and sentenced to 20 days in prison, which appears to have been suspended, and put on one year probation.
In February, 2008 Castile was convicted of being a public nuisance - a petty misdemeanor - for obstructing a public road with his vehicle. He was hit with $278 in legal fees.
And the following month he was stopped again and charged and later convicted of 'Driving after revocation' and not wearing a seat belt.
In July the same year he was again charged with 'Driving after Revocation' but a more serious charge of possessing over 1.4 grams of marijuana in a vehicle was dismissed.
Castile's life was lost when a traffic stop went fatally wrong, and became the center of national outrage when his girlfriend Diamond Reynolds livestreamed the aftermath of Officer Jeronimo Yanez shooting the 32-year-old.
Relatives told Daily Mail Online they believed he was the victim of racial profiling.
Speaking from his home in St Paul, Minnesota, his cousin Damion Pickett, 37, said: 'He was stopped because they think every African-American does crime but it doesn't happen like that.
'He was 'DWB' – driving while black. They think that of everybody, especially guys with dreads.
'You cannot label one person just off a few people because every black person is not that.'
Castile was well known to Pickett because he was a cousin to his half-brother.
'I knew his family. He was a good guy and he looked after his kid, he was a hardworking man.'
Damion's twin sister, Angelic Pickett, told Daily Mail Online: 'I take my hat off to his girlfriend. If she didn't record that, what would the outcome of this be? They would have taken the cop's word because he's [Castile] not here.
'The family is in my prayers. We know them well.'
Castile's lengthy rap sheet for minor traffic violations will raise questions over whether police in Minnesota are targeting the black community to raise revenue.
There was similar concern raised after the Ferguson riots sparked by the police shooting death of Michael Brown.
Some in the black community accused police of unfairly targeting them to raise revenue for the city.
The municipality in Ferguson collected some $2.6 million a year in fines and court fees, typically from small-scale infractions like traffic violations, before the riots.
In 2013, a year before the riots, the municipal court in Ferguson — a city of just over 21,000 people — issued 32,975 arrest warrants for non-violent offenses, mostly driving violations.
The scale on which Castile was pulled over is disclosed after the governor of Minnesota launched a startling attack on 'racism' in the police, saying he does not believe that the 32-year-old would have been shot dead on Wednesday if he was white.
Mark Dayton said there was 'every indication' that police conduct in the shooting of Castile, a black man, was 'way in excess' of what the situation warranted.
'Would this have happened if the driver and the passengers were white?', asked Dayton. 'I don't think it would have.
Philando Castile's mother Valerie (right, with her son's girlfriend Diamond Reynolds) said no one has reached out to her in the two days since her son was shot dead by a police officer
Vigil: A flag flew at half-staff outside JJ Hill Montessori School in St. Paul, where members of the community gathered to remember Philando Castile, who was shot dead by a cop Wednesday during a traffic stop
Governor: Earlier Thursday Minnesota Gov Mark Dayton (right) spoke to Diamond Reynolds (second from left, in sunglasses) and Castile's uncle (far left) outside the Governor's Mansion
'This kind of racism exists and it's incumbent on all of us to vow that we're gonna do all that we can to see that it doesn't continue to happen.'
He also said he was upset to note that Castile 'was not given first aid, nobody attended to his condition, as they were attending to the condition of the police officer who did the shooting.
'(Reynolds) was handcuffed and taken to a police station with her four-year-old daughter... it's just stark treatment; I find it absolutely appalling at all levels.'
Furthermore, he continued: 'I can't say how shocked I am and how deeply, deeply offended that this would occur in Minnesota to somebody who got pulled over for a tail light being out of order.'
Dayton, who has called on a federal investigation to be launched into the incident, and promised that the case would be pursued 'to its conclusion'. The Justice Department has said it is 'prepared, as necessary' to conduct such an investigation.
The police department has made no public statement on the allegations of racism. The officer who killed Castile has been placed on leave.
Reynolds herself was taken into custody shortly after the incident and was released only at 5am on Thursday morning after hundreds of protesters had gathered outside Mr Dayton's mansion in St. Paul.
Hours after she was released from jail, she launched into a 20-minute speech calling on the community to come together as she was flanked by a crowd of supporters brandishing Black Lives Matter placards.
She insisted that police had stopped them for a busted tail light, which she claims wasn't even busted, and that Castile told the officer he had a firearm on him and a license, before the cop began shooting 'for no reason'.
She told the growing crowd that her boyfriend 'didn't have any last words. His eyes rolled in the back of his head.'
'The police did this to us. The police killed him in front of my daughter. The police did this to me. They took an innocent man away from us.'
TRAFFIC STOP AFTER TRAFFIC STOP AFTER TRAFFIC STOP - HOW PHILANDO CASTILE WAS CONSTANTLY IN POLICE SIGHTS
Court records show the extraordinary number of times Castile was pulled over by police and taken to court over offenses from December 2002 until his death.
Here is the complete list of his dealings with police in Minnesota:
December 5, 2002: Violation of instruction permit - DISMISSED; No proof of insurance - GUILTY
January 9, 2003: Basic speed - GUILTY; Driving at speed - DISMISSED; No insurance - GUILTY; No seat belt use - DISMISSED
February 10 2003: Driving after suspension - GUILTY
June 13, 2005: No proof of insurance - GUILTY; Impede traffic - DISMISSED
March 27, 2006: No Minnesota driving license - GUILTY; Impeding traffic - DISMISSED
October 18, 2006: Driving after suspension - CONVICTED; Not carrying proof of insurance - DISMISSED
December 19 2006: No proof of insurance - CONVICTED; DAR - DISMISSED; Possession of marijuana in a moving vehicle - DISMISSED
April 23, 2007: Driving at speed - DISMISSED; No proof of insurance - GUILTY
October 31, 2007: Exceeding speed limit - DISMISSED; Failure to obtain new driving license after changing name or address - DISMISSED; Muffler required - DISMISSED; Driving after revocation - GUILTY; Operation of motor vehicle after loss of license - DISMISSED
February 4, 2008: Causing a public nuisance - CONVICTED; Render dangerous public road - CONVICTED OF PETTY MISDEMEANOR
March 12, 2008: Driving after revocation - CONVICTED; No proof of insurance - DISMISSED
May 2, 2008: Driving after revocation - CONVICTED; Not using seat belt - DISMISSED
Records: Just part of the official records of Philando Divall, showing the scale of police traffic stops
July 29, 2008: Driving after revocation - CONVICTED; Possession of over 1.4 grams marijuana in motor vehicle - DISMISSED; No proof of insurance - DISMISSED
August 22, 2008: Driving after revocation - CONVICTED
November 9, 2009: Driving after revocation - CONVICTED; Not using seat belt - CONVICTED
September 13, 2010: Not using seat belt (driver and passengers) - CONVICTED; Driving after revocation - CONVICTED
October 6, 2010: Driving after revocation - CONVICTED
January 12, 2011: Driving after revocation - CONVICTED
January 26, 2011: Displaying altered / fictitious insurance card - DISMISSED; Driving after revocation - CONVICTED; Not using seat belt (driver and passengers) - DISMISSED
June 23 2011: Driving after revocation - CONVICTED
September 19, 2011: Driving after revocation - CONVICTED
November 21, 2011: Uninsured vehicle - CONVICTED; Driving after revocation - DISMISSED; Not using seat belt (driver and passengers) - DISMISSED
November 24, 2011: Driving after revocation - CONVICTED
August 19, 2014: Stop/stand/parking vehicle where official signs prohibit stopping - CONVICTED; Expired registration - DISMISSED
November 27, 2014: Improper display of original plate - CONVICTED
July 5, 2015: Not using seat belt (driver and passengers) - CONVICTED
January 5, 2016: Snow emergency parking restrictions - CONVICTED
January 8, 2016: Stop/stand/parking vehicle on any street/alley at the same location for more than 48 consecutive hours - CONVICTED
January 11, 2016: Abandoning motor vehicle on public or private property without consent - CONVICTED;Stop/stand/parking vehicle on any street/alley at the same location for more than 48 consecutive hours - CONVICTED
If there’s one issue that won Bill de Blasio the New York Democratic mayoral primary in September, on his way to a crushing 74 percent to 24 percent victory in the November general election, it was his full-throated opposition to “stop and frisk.” Under this policy, police officers stop, question, and frisk people they deem suspicious, usually with zero evidence that they’ve committed a crime. De Blasio’s predecessor Michael Bloomberg and his GOP election opponent Joe Lhota strongly defended stop and frisk, arguing that it helps reduce the crime rate. But the voters of New York had clearly had enough of a policy that, in practice, overwhelmingly targets minorities, especially young blacks, only a tiny fraction of whom are ever found to be carrying drugs, or a gun, or indeed to have done anything wrong at all.
What few Americans (or at least white Americans) know is that stop and frisk is not limited to New York City. Versions of the policy are in place across the country. And just as in New York, whatever crime-fighting benefits derive from the policy come at the expense of contravening basic American principles of equal treatment under the law and of angering law-abiding minority citizens whose support and cooperation the police need to fight crime.
Until recently, there has been limited data on the degree to which stop-and-frisk policies, as opposed to other factors or police tactics, specifically cause alienation and resentment. But a first-of-its-kind survey we conducted in Kansas City makes that connection quite clear.
Although it is hard to document how widely police departments employ stop-and-frisk-like tactics, the data tells the same story nearly everywhere studies have been done on who is stopped by the police: racial minorities are stopped at considerably higher rates than whites. The underlying reason for this is not racism by individual officers. Rather, it is police department directives requiring officers to make large numbers of stops just to check people out. Police departments widely favor this practice because it allows officers to proactively seize guns and drugs, in officer-initiated stops, rather than waiting to respond to crimes.
Police officers have long checked out people who look suspicious, but in the 1970s several scholars, led by James Q. Wilson, proposed turning this happenstance occurrence into an organized, disciplined practice. In the 1980s, the Reagan administration’s Operation Pipeline, a key war-on-drugs initiative that trained local departments in how to make stops to find drugs, refined the technique and spread its gospel widely across the country. A study by the National Institute of Justice in the mid-1990s showed how to use investigatory traffic stops to seize illegally carried guns. The New York City Police Department then applied the practice to stop and frisks of pedestrians.
Police leaders know that it takes a lot of stops to find just a few illegal drugs or weapons. A widely used police training manual, Tactics for Criminal Patrol, declares that “[c]riminal patrol in large part is a numbers game; you have to stop a lot of vehicles to get the law of averages working in your favor.” Or, as an officer put it to the late journalist Gary Webb, “you’ve got to kiss a lot of frogs before you find a prince.” (The irony in this statement, of course, is that law-abiding citizens are the “frogs” and criminals are the “princes.”) This numbers game helps to explain why 98.2 percent of the stops in New York City yielded no illegal weapon or drugs. This 1.8 percent “hit rate,” as Columbia law professor Jeffrey Fagan has shown, is no better than chance.
To understand the phenomenon outside of New York City, where drivers rather than pedestrians tend to be the target of stop-and-frisk-type operations, we surveyed 2,329 drivers in and around Kansas City, a region typical of large, geographically segregated metropolitan areas in the country. The data from our survey allowed us to distinguish stops to enforce traffic safety laws—like speeding at fifteen miles per hour over the limit—from stops to investigate the driver. Our key finding is that these two types of stops differ from start to finish. In traffic safety stops, based on clear violations of the law, officers quickly issue a ticket or warning and let the driver go. In investigatory stops officers drag the stop out as they try to look at the vehicle’s interior, ask probing questions, and ultimately seek consent for a search (drivers almost always agree, telling us that they feel they have no real choice in the matter).
The key influence on who is stopped in traffic safety stops is how you drive; in investigatory stops it is who you are, and being black is the leading influence. In traffic safety stops, being black has no influence: African Americans are not significantly more likely than whites to be stopped for clear traffic safety law violations. But in investigatory stops, a black man age twenty-five or younger has a 28 percent chance of being stopped for an investigatory reason over the course of a year; a similar young white man has a 12.5 percent chance, and a similar young white woman has only a 7 percent chance. And this is after taking into account other possible influences on being stopped, like how you drive. Police focus investigatory stops on younger people, and so as people grow older they are less likely to be stopped in this way. But a black man must reach fifty—well into the graying years—before his risk of an investigatory stop drops below that of a white man under age twenty-five. Overall, black drivers are nearly three times more likely than whites to be subjected to investigatory stops.
Being black is also the leading influence on how far police officers pursue their inquisition in investigatory stops. In these stops, full-blown vehicle searches are relatively common. After taking into account other possible influences, black drivers in our survey were five times more likely than whites to be subjected to searches in investigatory stops. Searches are remarkably rare in traffic safety stops, and the driver’s race has no influence on whether the driver is searched in these stops.
These differences are not lost on African Americans. According to our survey, African Americans view normal traffic stops as legitimate exercises of law enforcement, and do so at about the same rate as whites do. Indeed, the main difference is that blacks, unlike whites, are even more likely to view a traffic stop as legitimate when the officer lectures them on driver safety, taking that lecture as a reassuring cue that they were in fact stopped for their behavior, not for the color of their skin.
By contrast, African Americans view investigative stops far more harshly, for reasons that are obvious when you hear their descriptions of the experiences, as we did conducting our survey. One gentleman, Billy, told a story about how, on the way to a job interview in Des Moines, he was pulled over by a Missouri highway patrolman for speeding even though he was going, at most, two miles over the speed limit. The trooper made Billy get out of his car and put his hands on the hood while he searched his car. Finding nothing, explained Billy, the trooper “came back and said, ‘The reason why we checked your car is we’ve been having problems with people trafficking drugs up and down the highway.’ So that was that.” It was not the only time this happened to Billy. On another occasion, he, his wife, and his cousin were pulled over on their way to visit an ill relative and their rental van was searched for drugs by a Missouri sheriff’s deputy.
Another man, Joe, told of being pulled over in Kansas City by an officer who drew his gun, handcuffed him, searched his car, checked his license, then let him go with “no ticket, no nothing.” Asked why he thought the officer had stopped him, Joe said, “I don’t know why, beside driving a nice vehicle, a nice car in the wrong neighborhood.” Joe, too, experienced much the same thing a second time, when an officer pulled him over and checked his license for outstanding warrants (he had none). “I felt violated,” Joe says of that episode. As well he should; warrant check stops are in fact illegal. But in some high-crime areas, an officer in a Kansas City-area department told us, “We stop everything that moves.”
The numbers game that police play with investigatory stops is a recipe for giving offense to large numbers of innocent people. Pervasive, ongoing suspicious inquiry sends the unmistakable message that the targets of this inquiry look like criminals: they are second-class citizens. The vast majority of black respondents to our survey—64 percent, compared to only 23 percent of whites—said that you cannot always trust police to do the right thing. Twenty-two percent of black respondents agreed with the statement that “the police are out to get people like me.” Only 4.5 percent of whites felt this way. The disproportionate personal experience of these stops among blacks is one source of this trust gap. Another is hearing stories of police disrespect from families, friends, and work and faith networks. Among respondents to our survey, 37 percent of black drivers, compared to 15 percent of whites, reported hearing these sorts of stories from members of their own household.
Investigatory police stops teach the lesson that the police are here to get racial minorities, not protect them. This is what Cornell law professor Sherry Colb calls the “targeting harm” of investigatory stops. It is the message that people like you are targets of surveillance, not the beneficiaries of protection. And while investigatory stops do enable police to find some lawbreakers and get them off the street, they also undermine the minority community’s trust in law enforcement and thereby its willingness to share information vital to good police work. Sixteen percent of black respondents to our survey reported that they did not feel comfortable calling the police if they needed help, compared to only 5 percent of whites.
Police leaders say the solution is to train officers to be more polite and respectful. This is not enough. The people we surveyed certainly prefer to be treated politely in police stops. But investigatory police stops are fundamentally unjust—and, according to our survey, feared—no matter how polite the officer.
A more meaningful solution is one put forth by U.S. district judge Shira A. Scheindlin, who in August ruled that New York City’s stop and frisks, as practiced, violate the Constitution. She ordered the New York City Police Department to better train officers in what kinds of justifications for these stops are constitutionally acceptable and to require officers to report the justification for stops in their own words (as opposed to simply checking a box to indicate the type of justification). Importantly, she also appointed a lawyer to monitor the police department’s implementation of these directives. While her decision was suspended by an appellate court, it offers an excellent analysis of the constitutional problems in the practice of stop and frisk. We hope it serves to guide other judicial decisions.
Still, in our view, the judge’s reform directives do not go far enough. The Constitution, at least as interpreted by the Supreme Court, sets the bar too low with regard to what is an acceptable justification for a stop. Police training already teaches officers to justify a stop with “specific, articulable facts and reasonable inferences there from,” the language in the key Supreme Court decision Terry v. Ohio. It is too easy for officers to provide a right-sounding legal justification for what is, in fact, a stop based on inchoate suspicion.
The solution is to prohibit investigatory police stops. This will require a change in police norms. Police leaders celebrate investigatory stops and the few big busts they yield. Instead, these leaders—the heads of professional police associations, police chiefs, and police trainers—should acknowledge how much these stops cause palpable harm to the person stopped and to trust in the police. Departments should prohibit stops unless justified by evidence of a violation. Officers would still have the authority to make traffic safety stops to ticket or arrest drivers for speeding, blowing through red lights, or driving drunk. They would still have the authority to stop people who fit a clear description of a suspect. What they would not have the authority to do is to stop people out of curiosity or unspecified suspicion.
If law enforcement leaders won’t act on their own, political leaders may force them into doing so. The New York mayor’s race showed that stop and frisk has taxed the patience of a substantial number of voters. Our survey shows that New York City is not the only place where that’s true.
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He was later found guilty of having no proof of insurance, fined $50 and sentenced to 20 days in prison, which appears to have been suspended, and put on one year probation.
Based on initial reports seems DWB. His girlfriend said there was no busted taillight- it was a pretext. There are a number of solutions including appointment of independent prosecutors when these things happen, not the same prosecutors from the same system under scrutiny, mandatory use of car and body cams, etc. The immediate solution on the other side of the window is for black folk to drive more defensively. Since we will be targeted, n since we know we are dealing with a self-serving bureaucracy that will pull out all stops to cover up and protect itself, we have to stop doing stuff that attracts police attention. Yes I know it sounds "politically incorrect", but an avoidance strategy is simple common sense. I use a radar detector in my own ride and seldom allow cops to follow me. I'll turn off or pull into the other lane ahead of someone so they can't get behind me. Of course following the traffic laws is also part of the package.
I tell young brothers all the time, stop making yourself a target. Last dude I talked to was offended when I said he was setting hisself up- he was strutting with pulled down pants, cutting thru the school yard smoking weed. Why the hell was he inviting attention? But no he told me was gonna do whatever he wanted to do. Fine, but why make it easy for your enemies or detractors to target you? Look at the Black Muslims I said- they are disciplined, organized. Police can't make easy targets of them. Why do you think Malcolm dressed so "conservatively" or appeared so controlled and disciplined even as he was savagely hammering home a point? He and the Muslims wanted people to take them seriously-dress was one indicator of the serious, austere message they were trying to transmit. The young negro did not want to hear "that shi&%t." He preferred to keep doing what he was doing.
TRAFFIC STOP AFTER TRAFFIC STOP AFTER TRAFFIC STOP - HOW PHILANDO CASTILE WAS CONSTANTLY IN POLICE SIGHTS
Court records show the extraordinary number of times Castile was pulled over by police and taken to court over offenses from December 2002 until his death.
Here is the complete list of his dealings with police in Minnesota:
December 5, 2002: Violation of instruction permit - DISMISSED; No proof of insurance - GUILTY
January 9, 2003: Basic speed - GUILTY; Driving at speed - DISMISSED; No insurance - GUILTY; No seat belt use - DISMISSED
February 10 2003: Driving after suspension - GUILTY
June 13, 2005: No proof of insurance - GUILTY; Impede traffic - DISMISSED
March 27, 2006: No Minnesota driving license - GUILTY; Impeding traffic - DISMISSED
October 18, 2006: Driving after suspension - CONVICTED; Not carrying proof of insurance - DISMISSED
December 19 2006: No proof of insurance - CONVICTED; DAR - DISMISSED; Possession of marijuana in a moving vehicle - DISMISSED
April 23, 2007: Driving at speed - DISMISSED; No proof of insurance - GUILTY
October 31, 2007: Exceeding speed limit - DISMISSED; Failure to obtain new driving license after changing name or address - DISMISSED; Muffler required - DISMISSED; Driving after revocation - GUILTY; Operation of motor vehicle after loss of license - DISMISSED
February 4, 2008: Causing a public nuisance - CONVICTED; Render dangerous public road - CONVICTED OF PETTY MISDEMEANOR
March 12, 2008: Driving after revocation - CONVICTED; No proof of insurance - DISMISSED
May 2, 2008: Driving after revocation - CONVICTED; Not using seat belt - DISMISSED
Records: Just part of the official records of Philando Divall, showing the scale of police traffic stops
July 29, 2008: Driving after revocation - CONVICTED; Possession of over 1.4 grams marijuana in motor vehicle - DISMISSED; No proof of insurance - DISMISSED
August 22, 2008: Driving after revocation - CONVICTED
November 9, 2009: Driving after revocation - CONVICTED; Not using seat belt - CONVICTED
September 13, 2010: Not using seat belt (driver and passengers) - CONVICTED; Driving after revocation - CONVICTED
October 6, 2010: Driving after revocation - CONVICTED
January 12, 2011: Driving after revocation - CONVICTED
January 26, 2011: Displaying altered / fictitious insurance card - DISMISSED; Driving after revocation - CONVICTED; Not using seat belt (driver and passengers) - DISMISSED
June 23 2011: Driving after revocation - CONVICTED
September 19, 2011: Driving after revocation - CONVICTED
November 21, 2011: Uninsured vehicle - CONVICTED; Driving after revocation - DISMISSED; Not using seat belt (driver and passengers) - DISMISSED
November 24, 2011: Driving after revocation - CONVICTED
August 19, 2014: Stop/stand/parking vehicle where official signs prohibit stopping - CONVICTED; Expired registration - DISMISSED
November 27, 2014: Improper display of original plate - CONVICTED
July 5, 2015: Not using seat belt (driver and passengers) - CONVICTED
January 5, 2016: Snow emergency parking restrictions - CONVICTED
January 8, 2016: Stop/stand/parking vehicle on any street/alley at the same location for more than 48 consecutive hours - CONVICTED
January 11, 2016: Abandoning motor vehicle on public or private property without consent - CONVICTED;Stop/stand/parking vehicle on any street/alley at the same location for more than 48 consecutive hours - CONVICTED
Re Castille, I believe he was targeted. The number of case dismissals indicate the standard police practice of "piling on" bogus charges. I've had family members victimized by this, and no, Castille did not"deserve to die." But based on this number of traffic infractions: driving without insurance, speeding, etc he made himself a target. No this does not mean he "deserved it." Pause- wait for bullshiit troll response that "traffic offenses are not deserving of death." No one said that. Roll eyes..
Anyway, based on this info you have posed Patrol, then he would already be on police radar and they would already be targeting his car. So once again, like I told the young dude, why do things that make you an easy target for detractors and or enemies?
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I don;t think these latest incidents will be the Straw that breaks the camels back in terms of revolutionary change. Similar has happened before- we will hear the same prepackaged arguments. The police will continue to cover up. Prosecutors will also continue to manipulate and cover up to protect the police. The right wing will posture in loud, holier than thou tones about the "end of civilization" if police are scrutinized, thus diverting attention from key oversight issues. The old false dichotomy of "law and order" versus "chaos" will be spun. Already the troll swarms are out on cue, repeating the same talking points. Numerous Negroes will continue to make themselves easy targets.
The latest- the Dallas police ambush will do little to change the overall situation. Some argue it will "raise consciousness" about the issue- but we ALREADY had plenty of "raised consciousness" BEFORE all this. What really has changed save locales and dates? The incident will only strengthen the hand of the reactionaries. they can yet again pose as defenders of civilization against the dark hordes. Yes contrast the "strong" Donald Trump against the "weak" "liberals" and so on. Yes our police are "under attack" and "at war"- they are without wrongdoing- falsely scrutinized by "the liberals".. [Insert additional boilerplate here..]
Does this mean that some reforms cannot take place? No not at all. There will be progress in various states or local places, at various levels.. like independent prosecutors etc etc. There can be beneficial changes, but fundamentally the self-serving system itself will not change greatly. This means that while pressing for the limited reforms that can be made, black communities can organize themselves to not fall victim so much, and that includes Malcolm's formula- stand up, wake up, clean up. Its the "cleanup" part that is lagging. There are no shortages of activists and fire breathers. But after all the fire breathed, we will still have the highest homicide rates-90% of the victims will be done in by other blacks. All this only helps reactionaries and racists. It's like we are giving them a free propaganda gift to use against us.
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The police assassination or execution of innocent Black men Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota is a barbaric, savage and uncivilized act. those two Black men never represented a threat to the life of the police officers. Those police officers should be prosecuted and when find guilty given life in prison as a deterrent to other rogue police officers.
Those rogue police officers that are killing Black people for no reason are destroying the image of the USA in the world. How can the USA go around the world and promote democracy and human right when rogue US police officers are murdering innocent Black people. To be fair most USA police officers are great and wonderful professional who protect the public against criminals, killers, gangsters, robbers, rapists, child molesters etc. We need the police in society
June and July are Holy Months for Black people this is the Egyptian New Years symbolized by the rise of the black dog Star Sirius and the flood of the Nile flood. Ancient Egypt or Kemet was the 5000 years civilizations created by Black people that lay down the foundation of politic, economy, law, science, art etc. According to the Egyptian calendar we are living in the year 10,000 in something. Coincidentaly most of the disgusting killing of innocent Black people by the rogue police officers happened in the months of June and July for example Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile in others.
Some conspiracy theorist are saying that the Illuminati want to create a race wars in the USA between Black people and White people. Black people and White people dont want race war they want good jobs, a lot of money in their bank account, they want a family, they want children, they want a nice car, they want to go shopping every weekend, they want to go on vacation every year, in short they want to enjoy their short life on earth and not waste their time in race war nonsense.
My condolences to the family of Alton Sterlingr and Philando Castile.
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quote:Originally posted by kdolo: 'The latest- the Dallas police ambush will do little to change the overall situation.'
one little ambush wont change much.....but many little ambush's will change a lot.
Doubtful- since such violence only encourages greater repression, like the "Zebra" killings in San Francisco in the 1970s.
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quote:Originally posted by kdolo: 'The latest- the Dallas police ambush will do little to change the overall situation.'
one little ambush wont change much.....but many little ambush's will change a lot.
This is total nonsense^.
What will change things is self determination and self reliance. And yes I do understand that the "Judicial System/ Legal System" was designed to go against black peoples progression. As it arose from this.
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quote: Do black people have second amendment rights? | Zach Stafford
Within less than 24 hours, social media was gripped with not one, but two incidents of police shooting and killing armed black men in states where all citizens have the right to carry guns. It seems that, in places in America where carrying is ostensibly allowed, second amendment rights remain out of reach for black people.
On Tuesday night, Alton Sterling of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was shot by police responding to a 911 call alleging that a man matching Sterling’s description had threatened the caller with a gun outside a convenience store. The bystander video of the incident showed police holding him to the ground and firing rounds into his body before pulling a gun out of his pocket.
The next evening, Philando Castile was riding in a vehicle with his girlfriend and daughter when an officer pulled them over in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. Castile, who has a permit to carry, according to his family, was shot four to five times after he informed an officer during the traffic stop he was legally armed. His girlfriend of 10 years livestreamed the aftermath on Facebook while their four-year-old daughter tried to bring calm to the moment: “It’s OK Mommy. It’s OK, I’m right here with you.”
The girlfriend and daughter were then detained and held by police until the early morning hours the next day with no food or water, the mother posted on Facebook after she was released.
Any sane person would assume that groups like the National Rifle Association would jump into action, condemning police for infringing on the constitutional right to bear arms that was apparently violated in both cases. Seven states have open-carry restrictions, and most states require, but do issue, concealed carry permits. And the NRA has pumped significant amounts of money into preserving these rights as mostly democratic lawmakers fight to tighten gun control laws in the wake of repeated mass shootings.
But the NRA has so far remained mum on the deaths of the two black men who appear to be gunned down just because they carried weapons while black.
These aren’t two isolated cases, either. Remember when John Crawford III was shot and killed while shopping at Walmart in Ohio by trigger-happy officers who thought a toy gun in the store was both his and real? Remember when police shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cincinnati while he was playing with a toy gun on a public playground?
As the days crawl forward with communities fighting to understand these tragedies, we will hear about how officers followed some procedure or feared for their lives, or whatever. The NRA will probably continue to remain silent. Black people will struggle with how to even wake up without being consumed with righteous anger.
Images of these two men dying over and over again will monopolize the media, with many people joining in the mourning but not really grappling with the fact that in both, we see non-black officers not only kill men who don’t appear to be a threat, but also who continue to point guns at their dead bodies as if even in death our skin is the most fearful thing one can face.
Hashtags and protests will erupt. Mothers and grandmothers and daughters and sons will mourn on our TVs.
And through all of this grief, we must remember one thing: it’s still feels like it is illegal to be black in America, let alone try to carry a gun in a gun-happy nation.
quote:VIDEO: Black Man Pulled Over By White Cop for ‘Making Direct Eye Contact’
An Ohio-based viewer of The David Pakman Show contacted me recently making me aware of a video uploaded to Facebook by a man named John Felton. Both John and our viewer live in the Dayton, Ohio area. The video, uploaded by Mr. Felton, a black man, shows him being pulled over by a white police officer.
Initially, the reason given for the traffic stop by the officer is that Mr. Felton failed to signal within 100 feet of turning. Note that this is different than failure to signal — it was never in question that Mr. Felton did use his turn signal, but in the officer’s opinion, he didn’t switch the turn signal on more than 100 feet from the location of the turn.
After going back to his police cruiser and eventually returning to Mr. Felton’s car, the officer in question is asked again about why he really pulled over Mr. Felton. In a moment of surprising candor, the officer admits to Mr. Felton that the reason he pulled him over was that Mr. Felton “made direct eye contact” with him.
I encourage you to take a look at Mr. Felton’s video below. Pulling someone over for “making direct eye contact” is absurd at face value, but a bit of additional exposes how utterly ridiculous this is as probably cause. As suspicious as “making direct eye contact” may be to a police officer, doing the exact opposite — that is, avoiding eye contact with a police officer — could be considered equally suspicious by an officer. In other words, both making eye contact and not making eye contact with police could, conceivably, be grounds for a traffic stop, if you agree with the general principle suggested herein.
This video has NOT been reporting on by other media as of today, as Mr. Felton has provided the video directly to The David Pakman Show. Take a look:
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