11-17-2016, 12:10 PM
(11-17-2016, 10:48 AM)Midwest Spy Wrote: I'm not even sure how to respond.
Glenn and Lamarr want to see this cop hit General Population. They say he won't last 6 months.
How do you feel?
I was just playing with you, MS, and wondering why the heck Glenn and Lamarr hadn't weighed in.
I feel that the DA is right in charging Officer Yanez and I'm glad DA Choi didn't do the whole "let's put it to a Grand Jury and do everything possible to convince them not to charge" routine that I feel has happened in a couple of similar cases. Choi appears to be following the evidence of his investigation and will leave it to a jury to decide, as it should be.
Based on what the public knows now, I think it's possible Officer Yanez let his private "Bulletproof Warrior" training courses militarize his thinking (over the last many years, a lot of cops have been taking those 'kill or be killed' courses, from what I've read).
In any case, Yanez seemed to be pumped to catch one of the robbery suspects from a few days prior and convinced himself wrongly that Philando was an armed and dangerous criminal before he pulled Philando over. Philando figured it was just another traffic stop, as he was told; he was respectful and compliant. But, Yanez lost his shit because of inaccurate preconceived notions, fear, bad judgment...
If that's what the evidence shows...........I hope Yanez doesn't get acquitted if his attorney argues that it was self-defense because Yanez 'feared for his life' when he pulled the trigger at the thought/sight/mention of a licensed and legally-carried gun. It wasn't 'reasonable' fear for his life and it wasn't self-defense, in my opinion.
Anyway, I hope Glenn and Lamarr are wrong about Yanez getting killed in prison within 6 months if he's convicted. I don't think Yanez put on his uniform that day hoping to pump 7 bullets into an innocent man, within inches of the man's girlfriend and her toddler. But that's exactly what he did and he should be held accountable under the law, in my opinion.