I’ll explain. I’m making the point about trial by media and how dangerous it is to lie about facts. BLM have softened their approach after the Dallas shootings... unfortunately... that doesn’t bring the dead cops back.

It's interesting if you look at the trial evidence. What's absent on the transcript from the shooting is the voice of Yanez' partner, who was standing outside the car on the other side. He said nothing at all before during and for quite a while after the shooting.

From a summary of the testimony: [Link]

St. Anthony cop who accompanied Yanez during traffic stop of Castile. He met Yanez on Larpenteur Avenue and approached the passenger-side window of Castile’s car while Yanez went to driver’s side. Kauser testified in court that he didn’t smell burnt marijuana at car — Yanez told authorities he could — and that he never saw a gun in Castile’s car nor perceived the situation as potentially threatening until shots rang out. He also said he was surprised when Yanez drew his gun and fired, but said he had a different vantage point than Yanez and trusted his partner’s decision and believes he “followed protocol.” Kauser never drew his own gun during the incident.

So, another officer in the exact same moment has a completely different perspective on events.

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

Nobody with any sense would be defending what this cop did to this poor man. It's sad that in response to 'cops are bad' crap, some swing to the complete opposite and defend sickening behaviour of a sadist in uniform.

Are you suggesting that two people react differently to a situation?
I mean... is that what you’re really saying? Is the strength of you’re argument that all people react the same?
Do you think the jury got it wrong... if so why? What do you know that they don’t? What evidence have you been privy to that they haven’t?

It’s not about defending the cop. It’s about understanding how it happened. If you see the video... you see the kid make a move to his waistband. The report the police were responding to was someone pointing a rifle out the window of a hotel... like that nut job did at that concert. That’s what they thought they could be dealing with. Then the kid moves his hand to his waistband (after being told he’d be shot if he moved his hands) and the copper shot him.

Also it's hardly widely disputed that extremely questionable behavior by cops tends to get treated very leniently stateside. As such being found not guilty or something doesn't mean that the questions stop there. The footage exists. People can draw their own conclusions, and I would say that to the average person the way this man was treated is extremely disturbing.