Philando Castile and Dallas Shootings

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Last night, Philando Castile was shot and killed by a policeman in Falcon Heights, Minnesota after being stopped for a broken taillight. His girlfriend posted live video to Facebook after Castile had been shot which shows him bleeding and dying. According to the girlfriend who was taking the video, the policeman shot him when he reached for his pocket after the police asked to see his gun permit. Castile was shot 5 times by the cop while the couple's 4 year old daughter was in the car. What are your thoughts on this disturbing event and video?
 
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I seen the live stream of Lavish/Diamond (his girlfriend) speaking about what happened and it was heart breaking, honestly so heart breaking. I'm so disgusted, I don't even know what to say. The fact a four year old child witnessed this too? I can't even imagine. I feel deeply for the family and everyone mourning.

Events Murders like this are happening all too often, Philando being murdered only a day after Alton Sterling was also murdered by police. The fact that police can kill people like this for no reason is so, so wrong. Police brutality, primarily towards black people in america, needs to stop. I don't want to overstep or take the conversation away from Philando's murder, but something needs to be done, It's disgusting that this continues to happen.
 
Honestly so many bad and corrupt things have been happening in this country lately; from The Email Scandal to all these shootings it makes me sick to think this is te country we live in now; this place is supposed to represent freedom, not corruption.

I don't know about you guys but I'll probably be choosing Canada this coming November (jk but seriously this place is going downhill)
 
Definitely something that I would never want to happen to a 4 year old child, witnessing that incident.

A moment to remember and pray for the family and the Philando Castile
 
Exhausting and frustrating that nothing will likely be done as per usual. Money and governmental positions are just showing more and more obviously that they're keys to evade the law, and good ****ing luck with the elite that run this ****show changing things so they're dragged down to the same level as everyone else in this regard.

Also, the more I think about it, the more I realize that this police force is making a pretty good case against the second amendment. They clearly can't be trusted with firearms, and if a position meant to protect can't be, then why should ordinary citizens with no duty or obligation to one way or the other?
 
Ten Dallas police officers were shot and 3 have been killed by snipers at a protest in Dallas. It's a ****ing war.

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The Dallas PD showed a picture of one of the suspects. He was wearing a camo shirt and had an assault rifle strapped across his body. You'd think that would be a red flag and he'd immediately be arrested, but that's probably considered normal for a gun-crazy state like Texas.
 
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Honestly its a very horrible what happened

If the cop was so afraid he had a gun why didn't he just tell him to step out of the car with his hands up?
As simple as that why couldn't he have just done that?
 
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Red Cat said:
Ten Dallas police officers were shot and 3 have been killed by snipers at a protest in Dallas. It's a ****ing war.

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The Dallas PD showed a picture of one of the suspects. He was wearing a camo shirt and had an assault rifle strapped across his body. You'd think that would be a red flag and he'd immediately be arrested, but that's probably considered normal for a gun-crazy state like Texas.
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It's extremely rare that you see someone open carrying. And for the record, 44 other states legalized it before Texas did, and 2/3 of Texans were against that bill being passed. We're not all gun crazy.

Anyway, the shooting happened at a black lives matter protest for a shooting that didn't even happen here, and the two snipers are still at large. What's really messed up is that the cops were marching with the protesters, showing their support, and still, ten of them were shot. People are unbelievable.
 
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Greninja said:
Honestly its a very horrible what happened

If the cop was so afraid he had a gun why didn't he just tell him to step out of the car with his hands up?
As simple as that why couldn't he have just done that?
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He wasn't afraid of him having a gun, he knew he had a gun. Philando told the officer himself and said he had a permit. However, he also did what he was supposed to do in such a situation and told the officer that he was reaching for his wallet. That's when he got shot.

It's sad that the two incidents led to more cop killings. In the aftermath of previous incidents, police officers were also killed in retaliation, even if they didn't have anything to do with it. The killings of the officers were underreported. Guess you gotta kill several of them before it's newsworthy.
 
I think it was horrible, but the whole issue I have with it is, all the people who are like Black Lives Matter, and it's like yeah, but ALL LIVES MATTER!!!!! And theyre all like wow all these black people are dying because of the racist cops, and yes they are, but its because most of the time, those black people did something wrong, like reach for a gun or rob a store, or SHOOT THE WHITE COP IN THE FCKING FIRST PLACE:::

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nothing cops do anymore is ok with the country, the people are gonna find SOMETHING to gripe about and its disgusting.
 
nami26 said:
I think it was horrible, but the whole issue I have with it is, all the people who are like Black Lives Matter, and it's like yeah, but ALL LIVES MATTER!!!!! And theyre all like wow all these black people are dying because of the racist cops, and yes they are, but its because most of the time, those black people did something wrong, like reach for a gun or rob a store, or SHOOT THE WHITE COP IN THE FCKING FIRST PLACE:::

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nothing cops do anymore is ok with the country, the people are gonna find SOMETHING to gripe about and its disgusting.
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Oh wow, just wow. Yes "all lives matter" nobody is denying this, but at the moment there is a great amount of police brutality towards black people. Black Lives Matter is a movement that was created to basically say stop killing black people, it is not putting black people above others. Here is a short video on the all lives matter vs black lives matter that explains the movement quickly and simply.

"Those black people did something wrong"? Quite a few times, specially recently, police brutality towards black people is become really prevalent, very often for no reason. Even if someone did rob a store, why would that be a reason for getting shot?! You should not be shot for 'robbing' a store, carrying a gun, or anything like that, that is not a reason to get shot, there is no excuse for shooting someone in those (and similar) cases. Remember the Charleston shooting? The shooter didn't get shot, he got taken to prison, so if you can shoot 9 people dead and not get shot, why would you think carrying a gun or robbing a store is a reason to get shot?! If police are shooting people for no good reason, they should not be police and should not be allowed to carry a gun.

"SOMETHING to gripe about" oh yeah, people are rightfully angry about police killing black people, but of course the angry people and the victims are the ones in the wrong, and not the police actually killing them, that's not disgusting at all is it? Are you seriously angry that people are angry about people being killed outright? I'm so confused by your response.

Now more people have been murdered, none of this should have happened, none of it. I don't want to turn the conversation back into gun control, but I think it's an important discussion, none of this should have happened. People are killing each other left right and center. The world is cruel and disgusting. My thoughts are with the families of everyone who was murdered, and with everyone affected. Nobody needed or deserved to die.
 
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Its not gonna stop. Never. The world is a disgusting place and will be become more dangerous by the minute. There's white people who get killed because of police brutality all the time, but no one reports that. Im not racist, its just I feel that black people purposefully target white cops. And also, in Ferguson, the black people of the town destroyed innocent peoples homes and killed the people through their riots, for no apparent reason. This is what the world has come to in our generation. and its horrible. I do feel bad for the families of the people who were killed, but people get killed everyday for their beliefs, skin color, and religion, but for some odd, unknown reason, only the deaths of black people in police brutslity cases are mentioned in world and national news. makes me wonder a bit.

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He wasn't afraid of him having a gun, he knew he had a gun. Philando told the officer himself and said he had a permit. However, he also did what he was supposed to do in such a situation and told the officer that he was reaching for his wallet. That's when he got shot.

It's sad that the two incidents led to more cop killings. In the aftermath of previous incidents, police officers were also killed in retaliation, even if they didn't have anything to do with it. The killings of the officers were underreported. Guess you gotta kill several of them before it's newsworthy.
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exactly, the cops are underreported for their deaths, and its unfair.
 
nami26 said:
Its not gonna stop. Never. The world is a disgusting place and will be become more dangerous by the minute. There's white people who get killed because of police brutality all the time, but no one reports that. Im not racist, its just I feel that black people purposefully target white cops. And also, in Ferguson, the black people of the town destroyed innocent peoples homes and killed the people through their riots, for no apparent reason. This is what the world has come to in our generation. and its horrible. I do feel bad for the families of the people who were killed, but people get killed everyday for their beliefs, skin color, and religion, but for some odd, unknown reason, only the deaths of black people in police brutslity cases are mentioned in world and national news. makes me wonder a bit.

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exactly, the cops are underreported for their deaths, and its unfair.
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Not only the deaths of black people are mentioned, and reports on people of other races being murdered by the police have been reported. I'm not sure how reliable the data is, but this report shows that yes, a whole lot of white people and people of other races are being killed by police too, but black people are 3 times as likely to be killed by police.

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I have also seen, plenty of times in the news, reports of police being killed, I don't think it's under reported at all. I think this whole thing is a massive, massive problem. People shouldn't be killing other people like this.
 
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