‘Guilty of Driving While Black’: Philando Castile Was Pulled Over At Least 31 Times Before Shooting

To me this seems like willful ignorance.

You can't possible think that he was pulled over at random 63 times and was simply caught for the same infractions that we all drive with on the course of day to day life.

He was pulled over that many times because they know he's always doing something wrong. It started off as a few random stops, and then turned into "well it's this guy again, he's always doing something illegal, what will it be today?"

"That's a death sentence now? Fuck"

Well, given how often people do this and never get murdered, and how statistically it's safer now than every even for black drivers, it clearly isn't a death sentence, but thanks for injecting some much needed emotion into this debate.

He's a repeat offender, he's been a suspect in armed robbery cases, he's known in the neighborhood and by local police as being a general problem, and he was pulled over with a gun on his lap and was ignoring police instruction.

I just don't see how you can form an opinion like yours unless you are being openly dishonest. There are severe problems with police in the United States, but rallying behind obvious shit humans with insincere arguments is doing nothing productive.

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