A COUPLE OF FAKE SIGNS WERE
POPPING UP IN MINNEAPOLIS.
THEY WERE ESSENTIALLY WARNING THE
RESIDENTS OF THE AREA OF HOW POLICE ARE EASILY STARTLED.
THIS
IS A RESPONSE TO THE SHOOTING DEATH OF JUSTINE DAMOND, AND A
STRONG WOMAN LIVING IN THE AREA.
SHE CALLED THE COPS TO REPORT AN
ASSAULT, THE COP SHOW UP AND SHE APPROACHES THE VEHICLE, ONE OF
THE COPS WAS STARTLED AND SHOT HER.
SHE DIED AS A RESULT.
PEOPLE HAVE BEEN UP IN ARMS AND EXTREMELY ANGRY.
SOMEONE TOOK
MATTERS INTO THEIR OWN HANDS AND MADE A POLITICAL STATEMENT BY
PUTTING UP THESE SIGNS WHICH HAVE SINCE BEEN TAKEN DOWN.
IT
IS A FORM OF POLITICAL SPEECH I CAN GET BEHIND.
>> REMEMBER ALSO FROM THE SAME AREA PHILANDO CASTILE WAS SHOT.
IT WAS ALSO BECAUSE AN OFFICER WAS STARTLED.
WERE PEOPLE AS
ANGRY ABOUT THAT?
ONLY A CERTAIN PERCENTAGE.
I WISH PEOPLE WERE
JUST AS UPSET AND WANT TO JUST AS MUCH CHANGE WHEN IT HAPPENED
TO PHILANDO CASTILE.
MOST PEOPLE IN THE AREA ARE BEGINNING TO
REALIZE IT'S NOT A GOOD IDEA TO TRAIN POLICE THAT IF YOU HAVE 1%
CHANCE OF HAVING ANY KIND OF HARM DONE TO YOU, JUST SHOOT AND
KILL
THE PERSON.
THE MAIN THING IS THE TRAINING.
>> I DON'T THINK IT IS ONE THING, I THINK IT IS A
COMBINATION OF FACTORS.
ONE OF THOSE FACTORS IS OF COURSE THE
TRAINING.
ANOTHER FACTOR IS THE RESPONSE THE COMMUNITY HAS HAD
IN REGARD TO SOME OF THESE SHOOTINGS.
THE MESSAGING HAS
BEEN IF A COP FEARS FOR HIS LIFE FOR EVEN A SINGLE SECOND, THEY
HAVE THE RIGHT TO SHOOT, EVEN IF THAT PERSON WAS NOT A THREAT OR
UNARMED.
TIME AGAIN COPS HAVE BEEN GIVEN A PASS WHEN THIS
EXACT SAME THING HAPPENS.
IT SENDS THE MESSAGING THAT YOU CAN
BE CARELESS.
ALL YOU DO IS STATE YOU FEAR FOR YOUR LIFE AND THE
GRAND JURY WILL NOT AND THAT YOU.
THE COMMUNITY WILL STAND
BEHIND YOU BECAUSE BEING A COP IS A HARD THING.
BUT NOW ALL OF
A SUDDEN BECAUSE THIS IS NOT IMPACTING ONE DEMOGRAPHIC,
PEOPLE ARE UP IN ARMS AND CONCERNED AND WANT ANSWERS.
WE
SHOULD'VE DONE THAT FROM THE BEGINNING WHEN THIS PATTERN
WAS APPARENT.
>> LOOK, I MIGHT MAKE A PREDICTION AHEAD OF TIME.
THIS
COP WILL FACE CONSEQUENCES BECAUSE HE SHOT A WHITE WOMAN.
IF IT WAS A BLACK COP SHOOTING A WHITE WOMAN, EVERYONE IS UPSET,
AND HE IS IN A WORLD OF TROUBLE.
NO MATTER WHAT THE RACE OF
THE COP IS, IF HE SHOOTS A BLACK GUY, OF COURSE YOU ARE IN
DANGER.
IN THIS CASE THE PROSECUTOR, THE COMMUNITY, AND
THE JURY WILL THINK HOW CAN HE BE IN DANGER?
IT IS AN INNOCENT WHITE WOMAN.
>>THE MAYOR HAS COME OUT AND HAS BEEN CRITICAL OF WHAT OCCURRED.
TO THE POINT THE SHERIFF STEPPED DOWN.
OR THE POLICE CHIEF
ACTUALLY.
WHAT HAVE WE EVER COVERED THE STORY OF AN UNARMED
PERSON GETTING SHOT AND KILLED AND THEN A POLICE CHIEF SAYING I
MUST STOP I WILL STEP DOWN.
>> YOU DON'T HAVE TO BELIEVE ANY OF THE RACIAL STUFF.
THERE ARE TWO
THINGS WE NEED TO FIX, FIX THE TRAINING, AND FIX WHAT HAPPENS
AFTER THE SHOOTING.
IF YOU TEACH THEM TO SHOOT IMMEDIATELY AND
SAY THERE WILL NOT BE CONSEQUENCES, OF COURSE IT WILL
BE THIS RESULT.
DID YOU KNOW IT IS ACTUALLY A HEALTH PROBLEM AND
NOT A CRIME PROBLEM?
GREAT.
IF IT IS GOING TOWARDS A FIX THANK
YOU FOR ALL JOINING THE MOVEMENT LET'S GET CRIMINAL JUSTICE
REFORM AND MAKE SURE THAT IF THERE IS A COP SHOOTING NOT THAT
THEY ARE PROSECUTED, BUT THAT AN INDEPENDENT FEDERAL
INVESTIGATION HAPPENS.
AND REMEMBER THAT THEY ARE SUPPOSED
TO PROTECT US, THAT IS THEIR JOB SO THEY SHOULD BE MORE
CAREFUL THAN THEY ARE BECAUSE NOW THEY ARE SHOOTING EVERYBODY.
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