Here's the
pro-Yanez take from a site that will never speak ill of an officer, even though they don't name him in this entire article (if you're not ashamed, why not name the officer, instead of constantly referring to his office/station in society?). Let the record show that I lead with the most charitable restating of the facts. There was a recent robbery and heightened alert.
A) Any DA, save the loonies on the left in Baltimore/Detroit/Illinois/California, would need a VERY granite solid case against a cop in order to deep six the relationship with the local police. When an indictment was brought, you knew it was going to be ugly.
B) This used to be funny (
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B1)Cartman's "Mah Authoritah!" used to be absurd, and therefore funny.
C) Good to see some RINO voting block talking heads, albeit lesser known ones, supporting the idea of justice for people wearing thin blue threads. This is intellectually consistent, at least.
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D) Do we think that Yanez's colleagues are buying him a beer today, or are they shunning him? Are they quietly teaching him how to repair HVAC units for a living, or are they sitting beside him in the briefing room with a renewed sense of confidence? Where does this lead, and do we want to go there? Somebody bring forth the "only one bad apple/most are parade-worthy #Heroes" trope!
E)
He cried in an Oscar worthy performance almost a year after the event.
The officer who shot and killed Philando Castile took to the stand Friday afternoon in his manslaughter trial, delivering tearful testimony.
"I was scared to death," he said. "I thought I was going to die. Had thoughts of my baby girl and family."
Yanez was crying when he described the moment he shot Philando Castile in July 2016.
"I did not want to shoot Mr. Castile at all. Those were not my intentions," Yanez said. "It still upsets me today."
(Not my intentions? Like, were you there to serve him a raspberry blintz?)
Nevermind the hours of training and thousands in equipment spent in the service of keeping Yanez safe, throw all of that out...we mundanes can't constantly wear body armor while driving a distracting car with a laptop on our right hand....but these special folks MUST...
He was scared. So scared that all he could do is destroy the dude, then he wasn't scared of the other two people in the car who were quiet as mice, to be sure...no fear of the women who loved the newly perforated pot-smoker...they
couldn't have been in on the recent heist...the training kicked in then...and he found the restraint to not blow them away, as he was no longer in fear...
F) Lee Greenwood could not be reached for comment.
“It’s not that we don’t have enough scoundrels to curse; it’s that we don’t have enough good men to curse them.”–G.K. Chesterton-Illustrated London News, 3-14-1908
Republicans.Hate.You. See2020.
"Avarice, ambition, revenge and licentiousness would break the strongest cords of our Constitution, as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams to Mass Militia 10-11-1798