tikkunolamorgtfo:

jkc1980:

tikkunolamorgtfo:

Full offence, but if you’re in law enforcement and you shoot into a car with a four year-old child sitting in the backseat because you “feared for your life,” then you’re not only a fucking failure as a police officer, but you’re also a pile of shit human being who isn’t worth the piece of paper your birth certificate is printed on.

Like, not only did Jeronimo Yanez literally murder Philando Castile in coldblood for no good reason other than “I think Black people are scary,” but he also put his well-being (which wasn’t even under threat in the fucking first place) above that of a preschooler. He decided in that moment, based on nothing but a racist pre-judgment, that his life was worth more than that of a little four-year-old girl, and in a world with any justice he would have been locked up for that reason right along with a manslaughter conviction. 

The jury for this case basically just looked this poor, absolutely traumatised little girl in the eye and said “We think you are disposable.” Obviously, they thought the same of Philando Castile. 

There is no non-Black person in this country who should not be wallowing in shame right now; our depravity is a scourge. 

The officer was in fear of his life, as Castille was reaching in the pocket he blatantly told the officer his gun was in. He was told to stop, but did not.

First of all, cops miraculously “fear for their lives” a whole lot less when the person with a gun is white.

Secondly, if you’re a police officer and you decide to put a preschooler’s life at risk to protect your own, then you’re bad at your fucking job and you should prosecuted for reckless endangerment.

Get the fuck out of here with your lame ass racist excuses.

maybe uhhh let’s not have everyone wallow in shame because of a dumbbell’s idiotic life choices (to put it mildly)

because yeah, shooting into a car with a preschooler in it is more than a bit gross. yeah, the fact that it happens waaay more if one’s skin isn’t white as the freshly fallen snow is freakin sickening. and, yeah, you’d think a guy who fired even remotely in the direction of a kid would at the VERY LEAST lose his job and his quality of life.

but…what could the vast majority of us have done? we can protest, we can strike, but i for one don’t have a time machine or a car, and this is the first i’ve heard of this. there’s probably situations just like it all around the neighborhood i live in, but what am i supposed to do? walk around the town all day and jump in when something starts hitting Danger levels?

we can try to put a stop to the injustice right now, but berating those who can’t help because of life circumstance, no matter how much they want to, honestly? that’s a low move.

…or maybe i’m just tired and ranting because it’s after midnight. maybe i’m forgetting some fact that changes the entire playing field from what i thought it was to something completely different. heck if i know. i’d just like to avoid being guilt tripped for things i either 1) did but apparently shouldn’t have done, or 2) didn’t do when i was supposed to have done something. being told how i, personally, can fix a situation, now there’s something i can work with. but being told i should ‘wallow in guilt’ for something i just read about happening and didn’t even realize was going on?

that’s some serious “sins of the father distantly-related cousin because human genetics are a thing” goin on there