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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I see no way these guys avoid jail. This isn't Ferguson, where there was a weak defense that the officer felt threatened. This was more like that other case (it seems the cops kill a black person for no good reason what -- five, ten times a year now?) where the cop shot the guy in the back in South Carolina, and was convicted of murder.
The Garner case, to which this will be compared, is also significantly different. Garner was held down in a manner that was at least arguably (weak, but impossible to discount out of hand) consistent with typical efforts to subdue a person. This guy was strangled to death by a cop's knee on his throat while saying "I can't breath" over and over. I'm no cop, but I kind of - just a little bit - doubt that "knee on neck" is a prescribed form of subduing a suspect.
"If I hadn't choked him with my knee he may have accessed his pocket and, uh, pulled out...
another bad check!"
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Philando Castile was school lunch worker with a permit to carry and we couldn’t get a conviction.
And Mike Freeman, the county prosecutor, is a coward.
There will be riots again tonight. There will likely be riots again when Freeman announces charges less that first degree murder (even though he will probably be right). Not feeling at all hopeful right now.
Which is odd because I did when I visited the peaceful protest at the intersection this morning.
