The police officer who reportedly shot and killed Philando Castile this summer has been charged with second-degree manslaughter today (November 16), the Associated Press reports. Castile was killed in July in Falcon Heights, Minnesota in an incident that his girlfriend broadcast on Facebook Live. Her daughter was in the backseat of the car when the shooting occurred.
Jeronimo Yanez was the officer identified as the one who fired the deadly shot after pulling over Castile, a black man, for a traffic stop and if convicted, the policeman faces up to 10 years in prison. Yanez’ attorney is saying that his client stopped the 32-year-old man because he seemingly matched the description of a wanted robbery suspect. He claims that Yanez, who is Latino, fired his gun out of fear because Castile claimed he had a legal gun with him in the car.
Castile’s family believes he was racially profiled and another victim of police brutality. His death came less than 48 hours after another black man, Alton Sterling, was shot and killed by police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Other high-profile cases have had mixed response from the legal system as nobody was charged in the death of Freddie Gray, who died in Baltimore after being arrested and suffering a spinal cord injury while being transported in a police van. Darren Wilson, the policeman who shot and killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, was not indicted for his actions.
The officer who shot and killed Walter Scott in South Carolina is on trial for murder.
Some how some way he’ll get off scot free.
The family need to sue the hell out of that police department and city for 5,000,000 compensatory damages and 20,000,000 punitive in a federal court for wrongful death and civil rights violation. Hurt them pockets that will make black millionaires when they do this type of evil.
P R E A C H!
Thanks .we have to use the civil courts to seek justice like the Goldman’s did oj when he got off in criminal court.
Law suit
Sure, charge the Latino cop but not the white cop. This is all Trump’s fault.
he shouldn’t had became a cop. it is kind of foul though. not put the white cops in jails but the others for doing the same thing. it’s not trump’s fault though. they been doing this WAYYYYY before he decided to run for president. this country is favored towards politicans, rich people, police and middle class white americans. me and you know that. at least he got justice (even though they are gonna have him a slap on the wrist)
Well, if any of you retarded mf actually looked at the cases instead of assuming right off the rip that every one is racially motivated then you would know that most are justified to anyone who is educated. Michael Brown robbed a store on some punk shit , then after being stopped decided to wrestle with Mr Wilson for his gun and the result was what it was. Sterling, remember the poor guy just trying to sell CDs to support his family? Well, he pulled a gun on a homeless man who was asking for change because a simple NO wasn’t enough. Police were called because of it hence the reason they went there in the first place, not because of cd’s. He didn’t comply because he had no business having a gun since he was arrested in 2009 and did a 5 year bid for having one illegally. Ntm he was on probation for domestic violence, a home invasion land because he was such a great black man he also was a registered sex offender… That’s why they wrestled his ass to the ground and if you watch the video he would not stop resisting even though he was down so… I could go on for days with each case but neither you or I have the time
unless you provide proof of what you said, it’s all bunk. none of what you said about sterling happened. that wasn’t in any news report. what happened was he had permission to sell CD’s in that lot from the store owner. the store owner was Muslim. they stopped and mistaked him for someone else (which does happen. unless it happens to you, you can never understand that) and he told them he was just selling CD’s. they didn’t listened and tased him and dragged him to the ground. they shot him after struggling. if you get tased out of the blue, you are struggling because those are many volts going through your body. he never had a gun on him. it’s in the video. they found no gun. in fact, they lied when they called backup. it’s all in the video. don’t listen to everything the media try to tell you. wow. this country has a lot of sheep in it.
I agree with It’s Um…he will get off. It will be the same song and dance. Plus, he was only charged with 2nd degree manslaughter, which in Minnesota, only carries a 10 year max bid. At best, he will only serve four, away from general population. Y’all hear me? 10 years, 4 served at best, for MURDER. Hip Hop Family, WE have the power to change this and we must do so!!
Use Birth Control and Plan B. You Blacks are breeding like rats.
You sound do damn stupid but you would know how rats breed because your mom is one
So all you prejudice people on here let me get this straight others can come in the country and kill massive amount of people and the police don’t kill them but take them into custody but then a cop can just walk up to a person of another color ask no questions and kill them and tell that same old lie that they felt threatened bullshit !!! To many people have hate in their hearts ..oh and by the way for anyone who thinks I’m black I’m not I’m white but I have respect for all life’s.