The Shooting Death of Philando Castile
Posted by Michelle Moquin on July 9th, 2016
Good morning!
Running late this morning.
In less than 6 months 532 people have been killed by cops. (update: Depending upon what you read it is as high as 580) In 2015 black men were killed at a rate of 5-1 to white men of the same age despite black men making up only 2% of the total US population.
Yet the focus is on the 5 cops that were killed, as Liu has already stated.
Liu: I know you already posted this twice because it is so important. I’m posting it again because I feel it is too important to not be headlined.
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Readers: This cop recklessly shot his gun into the car with a small black child in the back. The child could’ve easily gotten hurt or killed but the cop didn’t give a fuck. Would he have done that with a white kid sitting in the back? I highly doubt it.
As hard as it is to see this video, I encourage you to watch it and watch it all. What we feel is nothing compared to what the trauma the Ms. Reynolds and her young daughter will carry with them for the rest of their lives. Who knows the ramifications it will have on this 4 year old child having to deal with such a tragedy at such a young age. My heart goes out to both of them and their families.
Thanks for your patience in my late post. I’ll address some comments tomorrow.
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July 9th, 2016 at 12:33 pm
Why is it your police try to find anything in the victim’s past to use to make the public think the murder of the victim was justified.
The issue is did the cop execute the victim not whether the victim did something in his past that whites can hang their hats on to say he deserved it even if he was murdered.
White america is a most disgusting country. They are the worlds worst hypocrites.
July 9th, 2016 at 12:36 pm
Thanks Michelle. Many people need to listen to and watch this video.
Only heartless racists will think anything these thugs with badges did was justified. I honestly believe that the only thing that will give them pause is for black men to make them feel the heat of being on the end of retribution every time they pull one of their murders.
July 9th, 2016 at 12:47 pm
Liu#2, I have to agree with both Deniz and Liu. White america has no concern for the angst of black people. They look for reasons to accept the murderous behavior of their racist dogs.
If black men don’t find the courage Micah Xavier Johnson did, they will continue to be murdered on a regular basis by white americas racists executioners.
Stations like fox are set to delegitimize Black Lives Matter the way they did ACORN. It is a masterful Big Brother ploy.
Black men have to say if they must die do it as heroic as Mr. Johnson did. Black people need to defy the attempts of white america to make Micah a bad person. He was murdered with a bomb by the police.
When was the last time a police force used a bomb to murder a suspect? NEVER!
But do you hear anyone raising an issue about it? Of course not. Because the white racists in america control the press and the rest of the media.
Stay the fuck out of my country you racist dogs.
July 9th, 2016 at 12:51 pm
On every channel is the narrative about how bad the murdered victims were.
They even try to smear Micah Johnson. This is a sick racist country. We need bumper stickers supporting Micah Xavier Johnson.
If cops refuse to stop their racist colleagues from breaking the law when they interact with black people, then they have no right to complain when they become collateral damage when blacks bring old fashion western justice to the criminal element among them.
July 9th, 2016 at 12:54 pm
Michelle I’m happy you are showing you are not afraid of the police state in which you live. The thugs with badges in your country will probably try to shut you down.
Here in Pakistan we accept the money we get from your politicians but we despise them because we know they are racist hypocrites against their own people.
Why would we expect any less. I’d rather take the chance with IS than your cabal of racists shits.
July 9th, 2016 at 1:02 pm
Georgia is trying to join the EU. I hope the russians don’t attack us for it. I am here in Texas waiting out my application for citizenship.
As a white man I already get treated better than any of your darker citizens. What a country. If I didn’t need to be here so badly, I wouldn’t touch your disgusting politicians with a shitstick.
I watch the videos of your police murdering blacks without an ounce of compassion. They just shoot them and let the bleed out.
And your despicable media just encourages it with stories that look to demean the victims while lauding the “heroic work” the cops do.
Isn’t it part of the job of a policeman to put himself in harms way ahead of the civilian? Then why does your media continue to laud it as something “heroic?”
Seems to me they are trying to make the police untouchable when it comes to the terrorizing of your minority communities.
“The greatest country in the world,” yeah if you are white. God help you if you are not, though.
July 9th, 2016 at 1:03 pm
I would buy a Micah Xavier Johnson and proudly display it on my car.
July 9th, 2016 at 1:07 pm
I would buy a Micah Xavier Johnson bumper sticker and proudly display it on my car.
What about T- shirts with his name and picture?
Whites have pictures of Hitler, that civil war flag when represents slavery, rape, murder, and incest, but I bet If you wore a Micah Xavier Johnson shirt you would be arrested.
White america decides what is okay for free speech. We need someone with balls to start making and selling MXJ T-shirts.
July 9th, 2016 at 1:31 pm
http://www.wfaa.com/mb/sports/dale-hansen/hansen-unplugged-an-attack-on-our-basic-humanity/268208869
July 9th, 2016 at 3:10 pm
I think it was great to see black people get a little vengeance. Now two wrongs never make a right, but it has been far too long where white officers have been murdering unarmed black citizens without consequence. And most times without cause
This has not been an occasional shooting happening once in a while, but rather an all out slaughter of the black man by our supposedly finest.
The courts seem to advocate this behavior. And these trigger happy, black shooting, white police killers aught know that this shit will not fly anymore.
Hammurabi had a law for this, that certainly applies here.
July 9th, 2016 at 4:06 pm
Hanson#9, my beef with Hanson is his assertion that the killer was “opening fire on the streets of Dallas.” The Avenger did not open fire at random. His purpose was to kill police officers, preferably white police officers.
Considering the situation, I think he was quite accurate. He did not harm civilians. The “possible purpose” was to send a message to white police officers all across this country that if they murdered a black person, someone would kill a bunch of them. If others take up the mantel, it will work to deter murder by cop upon black people.
Something has to be done because for certain white america will not do anything to deter those thugs with badges. And for certain unless they fear for their lives the so called good cop will continue to aid and abet the murdering cops by looking the other way.
Which brings me to Hanson’s other assertion that ” the shooter might have killed the good cops.” That is an incorrect assumption since cops who witness the murder by thugs with badges either look the other way or lie to protect the murder. That action by a civilian is considered “Aiding and abetting” a crime.
I see no reason legally or morally to give a police officer a pass on that charge. On the contrarily a police officer should be held to a higher standard to prevent just such a crime from happening. But they don’t, hence they have lost their claim to “innocence” by any stretch of the imagination.
Micah Xavier Johnson did not lump all cops into the same category as cops do when they murder indiscriminately black people. He chose to go after white cops.
He set an example that I believe if followed will put a stop to the murder of black people by racist cops who know that white juries will not convict and white DAs will not charge them if they murder black people.
When justice is denied, anarchy reins. I honestly believe that the only way to get the law enforcement to police themselves on this matter is to put the fear of death in their hearts and minds.
If they come to know that when a black person is murdered indiscriminately by a racist cop, then white police officers will be killed indiscriminately by a Micah Xavier Johnson. The cowards may not fear justice from the courts run by white america, but they will come to fear justice run by black men like Micah Xavier Johnson.
Those cowards will rein in their thugs with badges because they don’t want his action to cause their deaths. Since nothing else has worked, why not give it a try?
July 9th, 2016 at 4:08 pm
Amen Anon#10.
July 9th, 2016 at 4:39 pm
If I could talk to Dale Hansen@10 I would tell him that one of the major problems that make it difficult to convict thugs with badges is the propaganda spread by people like him that “Police officers are not like you and me — they’re better.”
That is the monstrous lie that enables cops to get away with most of their crimes and it is the kind of hero worship that could lead to a police state.
Police officers are JUST like you and me. The percentage of policers that are criminals is the same as the regular population, it is probably higher since a career criminal would know that if he got a badge the aid and abetting attitude fostered by every police union in the country will keep him from paying for his crime if he gets caught.
The number of rapists, murders, etc are statistically the same as the population in general. The only difference is that the police belong to an organization like the mob which demands that they do not tell on each other.
Hansen’s other assertion that cops are better because “They run into the darkened alley where we won’t go. They run into the buildings we run from. They look for the person we try to hide from.” is definitely wrong.
The reason is obvious. Cops do those things because it is the job description they sign up for. They get paid a lot more to do that than they could get with their high school diploma in any other profession.
Fire fighters run into burning buildings when others run out. That doesn’t make them better. They do it because it is part of their job description. Doctors go to help people with contagious diseases that the rest of us run from because that is their job description.
We don’t go making them heros just because they do their jobs. So why people like Hansen feel they have to suck up to cops and call them heros just for doing what the civilian population PAYS them to do is a psychologist’s or psychiatrist’s job to determine. But for certain the truth is cops are not ‘better.”
Actually rather than be so easily exonerated because they hold the power of life and death when they do their jobs, they should be held to a higher standard.
I have to agree with those who suggest that perhaps another form of motivation is needed to get cops to police the racist thugs among them. Something that poses a direct threat to them if they don’t.
Since cops are not tried for perjury when caught lying on their After action reports, or lying under oath in or out of a trial, then one must find another way to motivate them to do the right thing.
If taking Mr. Micah Xavier Johnson’s approach is the only way because people fear death, then who am I to refuse to see it as a viable option?
Of course white america will see this as abhorrent, or “two wrongs don’t make a right,” but that’s because they are not the ones being murdered indiscriminately.
But a look at all the “Stand your ground” states tell us that if whites feel threatened they will pass any type of law giving them the right to take matters into their own hands. The abuse of those laws by murderers or criminals is simply considered collateral damage.
I like to think that Micah Xavier Johnson stood his ground in the face of murdering racist thugs with badges. The collateral damage be damned.
July 9th, 2016 at 4:56 pm
My beef with Hansen#10 is his claim that “It wasn’t this way when I was a boy, but it is life in America now.” is the most egregious lie any white man can spew.
The implication that anything was better for the OTW in the past just shows the insensitivity of most white boys in America and their narcissistic preoccupation with wanting to go back to a time when ONLY white men had rights.
Actually back when he was a boy, we did live in a police state run by rich white men. White women and OTW s merely existed the best they could under different oppressive, racist, misogynistic, and religious laws of the states they resided in. It was a time when the white boy was America’s only beneficiary of Affirmative Action because the laws used the force of government’s police power to give him special treatment in EVERYTHING
That’s why today the white boy fears Affirmative Action for white women and OTWs, he knows it is the only way for them to reach parity when has gotten such a head start.
Hansen if you were a white female or an OTW, you would despise people like you who used police power to terrorize them into staying in their place as second class citizens in their own country.
July 9th, 2016 at 5:16 pm
Ruth#14 I am a 73 year old white woman and I can tell you hair raising tales about what it was like to be a white woman seeking a job back in “the good ole days.” It was a time when sexual harassment was not something a woman could charge a white man with. If you wanted a job you had to do what they wanted with whom they wanted.
It was a time when just about every white man that controlled employment for women were legally entitled to be predatory men. White men left unchecked are worst than dogs in heat. They parade around with their ugly red little things forcing women to please them.
I and my friends could tell you horror stories that would give you nightmares. The police were merely a means to enforce their depravity.
July 9th, 2016 at 5:24 pm
I am a gay white man. My father used to love to tell me stories of when he lived in Georgia. He said that niggers knew their place there because it was only a misdemeanor to kill one.
He said that gays could be killed without a second thought. And that no black woman could testify against a white man in a court of law. He said that if one tried to charge a white man with rape, the police would take her out back and pass her around until they had their fill.When they tired of using her they’d tell the nigger bitch to get home the best way she could.
He is 82 years old and you can see the gleam in his eyes when he and his friends are sitting around bragging about all the black pussy they took in their day.
I agree it must have been a special kind of hell to be an OTW in the “good ole days.”
July 10th, 2016 at 8:23 am
If Trump, Newt and the Republicans can accomplish the following then everything will be good. 1) lots of full-time well-paying jobs like in the late 1980s for people of all ages 16 to 80 as well as lots of well-paying part-time work with full benefits; 2) affordable healthcare like in the 1980s like $10-copay for doctor visits, $0 to $5 copay for prescription, $20 co-pay for specialists, $0 copay for xrays, lab tests, and the rest, 3) affordable college without going into debt and very low tuition (almost free) community college, 4) number one K-12 education, 5) low taxes and less government paperwork on entrepreneurship, 6) easy to export to other countries, 7) labor unions so the companies do not exploit workers, 8) safe country – no mass murder/no terrorism, 8) good safe climate so there is water and lost cost renewable energy, 9) peace among citizens and nations, 10) reduce income gap between rich and workers; fair wages.
July 10th, 2016 at 8:26 am
Michelle, my husband said he is supporting trump because Newt recommended him by saying trump will fix the problems we have in this country.
What I wanted to say to him is, Look, what Newt is telling you is that you don’t need to go to the dentist because shooting yourself in the face will take care of that toothache.. It’s quite a reasonable suggestion!
July 10th, 2016 at 8:27 am
I am not a Hilary fan in the least, but I think some people are engaged in double standards when it comes to her.
I think if you overanalyze anything, you’ll come away with a whole list of suspicions that help narrate any story… I think she is a politician and acts like one. the problem is people don’t want a political because it’s better to go out in the street and clubber each other with guns and bats.
People forget why politics are instituted … I guess we need a civil war to remind us of its importance!
July 10th, 2016 at 8:29 am
Greg#17, What planet are you on? Howie can you help this idiot?
July 10th, 2016 at 8:33 am
There hasn’t been a booming Republican economy since before Reagan. Every Republican administration beginning with Reagan has had a least one recession.
The last one the worst since the Great Depression.
Reagan sold our health care to the Insurance Companies. (Republican privatization) The pre-Reagan GOP is dead and gone and will never return. You see the Republicans let the crazies in and now they can’t control them.
In the early 90′s, millions of us young working educated professional Republicans fled to the Democrats in response.
Equal rights for all is the cornerstone of the U.S.A. We have no intention of giving that up to a bunch of bigots who want to disenfranchise and discriminate against any U.S. citizens they don’t like for personal reasons.
We are also sick to death of Republicans taking from the middle class and working poor to give to the rich. Now they are going to go against the instructions from their employers (the people) and try to take the nomination away from Trump.
How can any thinking person who is not a bigot, racist, misogynist, or climate change denier vote Republican?
July 10th, 2016 at 8:44 am
Paul#16, I have heard similar stories from my mother. She is Creole and has been passing for white since she married my father in 1948.
She said that Louisiana she couldn’t be white because she was greater that one thirty second black. The state actually went around checking the ethnicity of people to deprive them of equal rights with those who the state considered really white.
Nazi like and proof positive that white americana were and still are the only true beneficiaries of Affirmative Action. Especially if Affirmative Action means the government selects out a race or group to give special treatment to.
Ironic that we are the race complaining the most about others getting a little Affirmative Action benefit. Perhaps not so much when you consider that we like the privileges that come for being America’s chief Affirmative Action Beneficiaries.
July 10th, 2016 at 8:46 am
.I think many are underestimating Hillary Clinton’s desire and ability to be a good President and leader……
July 10th, 2016 at 8:54 am
Trump not qualified to be President. His skin color and money got him where he is today. It’s sad that they allowed him to get this far.
His hats should say..Making white people look bad. I am not against whites. Its his senseless rhetoric that is too unbelievable to an educated person. The guy is a mockery of the Republican Party.
July 10th, 2016 at 9:14 am
I’d like to return to the good old days… for me, that means when I was getting laid!