You are not required to take everything said in the witness box as fact. If you find the notion that all these exonerating false statements were simply false memory as ridiculously improbable compared to the notion that they were simply lying, then you can vote accordingly.
Witnesses give contradicting testimony all the time. Juries are often called on to tell us which version of the facts are true. Some people reflexively assume that the cops are telling the truth and everyone else is lying. Others see an explanation like false memory to reconcile inconsistency between what the cops said and what the video clearly shows he did and say “bullshit, this guy is lying”
The fact that cops shoot young black males disproportionatley compared to any other demographic group. There is a LOT of evidence that cops discriminate against young black males. do you really need a cite to the evidence?
Reasonable doubt is in the hands of a jury. I don’t think they could get convicted of murder 1 or 2 but they can certainly be convicted of negligent homicide.
The lie doesn’t mean he is guilty. It means we can discount anything he has to say, not ignore, but discount.
We can look at the video without the addition of the narrative that the cop wants to superimpose on the video. If the video looks damning we can damn him. A lot of people think the video looks damning.
What do you know - following instructions and handing over your gun does work out better than fighting, trying to draw on the cops, or running away!
I guess you must be upset that the police didn’t kill him in order to preserve some standard of fairness. I mean, it’s not like he was human or anything - just a cop. Cops’ lives don’t matter.
For much of American history, many or even most police officers and police departments were the active enemies of peaceful black people. Many statistics and reports (and, most importantly, the reports of black Americans) indicate that this still exists to a lesser but still significant degree in some places in America.
That is not how self defense usually works. Self defense is usually an affirmative defense. If you kill someone, you have to prove that you were acting in self defense.
You may be confused by the Treyvon Martin case in Florida where it is NOT an affirmative defense (which seems retarded to me). I don’t know what the rule is in this particular jurisdiction but the general rule is that self defense needs to be proved. it is not assumed.
No, he did not comply initially, in fact he fired more shots through the windshield! He then walked around with the gun, pointing it at his head. Compare the time from initial confrontation to resolution between this case and Tamir Rice’s case.
Yes. And there are studies on this that show that similarly situated young black men get shot or killed much more frequently than young white men or young Asian men. What is it about young black criminals that warrants shooting so much more frequently than young white men?
"Once Philip Seidle stopped shooting, he put his gun to his head and started walking around her vehicle, police said. Officers, who were nearby investigating an unrelated motor-vehicle accident, started talking to him and got him to allow them to take his daughter out of his SUV.
As she was taken away, Philip Seidle then walked to the front of his wife’s car and fired into the windshield."
So police were on the scene when he fired a gun and they STILL didn’t shoot him. Or was shooting his wife part of the police instructions?
So you admit that he was only a threat to himself and not to the other officers.
Your quoted text says that he fired “into the windshield”, not that he shot his wife. His wife was already dead by then. It is not possible to threaten a corpse.
To be fair, Tamir Rice didn’t actually have a gun in his hand. I mean for fuck’s sake, you don’t have to wait until they actually shoot at you but they should at least be touching the goddam gun when you shoot them.
So, a white man reshooting his murder victim, through the windshield = no threat. A black kid standing there for 2 seconds, dazed as the cop car races up next to him = threat.
Smapti is absolutely beyond any sort of redemption. That is simply crazy.
He discharged a weapon while the cops were around, that immediately makes him a threat.
Do you think that a black man who just killed his wife could survive an encounter where he shot at his wife’s corpse in the presence of police officers?