Have you seen a drug screen on the victim in this shooting? What if there is pot in her system; will you think the officer probably acted correctly?
From the dash cam video:
“Sir I do have to tell you I do have a firearm on me”
“Don’t reach for it [then?]”
“don’t pull it out!”
“don’t pull it out!!!!”
You forgot that in between the two "Don't pull it out" both Castile and his girl friend told the officer that he wasn't pulling the gun out or going for it in any manner. Yet the officer shot him anyway.
Bang
More like "Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang.
How would a “reasonable person” have responded to the above directions given by the cop? By the 2nd ‘Don’t’, he should have stopped moving - but he didn’t. Too stoned to think.
I like to think I'm a reasonable person, and if I assure someone twice that I'm not doing what they tell me not to do then I'm going to assume that they are a reasonable person as well and believed me. But then again I don't run into panicky cops very often.
That sounds great - until you understand that a lot of cops mostly deal with those who have no problem telling flat-out lies. Hence the derogatory 'dindunuffin'.