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2. Good advice. I will tell my young relatives this. Sometimes one runs into a totally unqualified...
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 04:41 AM
Jul 2017

officer though, as did Philando Castile.

He was totally complying with his murderer, doing everything he was asked to do. That cop gave him conflicting instructions. First, after lawfully being told by Castile that Castile had a weapon and carry permit, the cop told him not to reach for it, which he didn't. Then the cop told him to show his ID, which he attempted to do but was then pumped full of bullets by the panicking officer who had given him him the two sets of instructions.

To me it's still unfathomable that that scared, cowardly murderer was found not guilty, especially in light of the two tapes the nation has seen of the incident.

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