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Not Surprising: Police Officer That Murdered Philando Castile Found ‘Not Guilty’
MINNESOTA — Philando Castile’s murder at the hands of a police officer has been burned and etched into our memories.
The viral Facebook Live video of a bloody and dying Castile with his girlfriend Di- amond Reynolds’ bloodcur- dling scream in the background, recorded his last moments of life.
In July, 2016, Minnesota po- lice officer Jeronimo Yanez pulled over the 32-year-old public school nutrition worker for a broken brake light. A swift minute after pulling him over, he fatally shot Castile an inordinate seven times.
Yanez was found not guilty, per Buzzfeed.
"He let the officer know that he had a firearm and he was reaching for his wallet and the officer just shot him in his arm," Reynolds reported as a direct witness via livestream, so that there was no question as to what happened from her perspective.
However, Earl Gray, Yanez’s attorney claims that his client “did what he had to do.”
During the trial Castile’s ir- relevant prior convenience store robbery came up via the defense, who also claimed that Castile was under the influ- ence of marijuana and ignored officer’s orders, reaching for a gun.
"None of this would have
happened but for Philando Castile," Gray exclaimed in a quote via the Star Tribune. "[Yanez] sees the gun and [Castile] doesn't follow or- ders. That's enough to pull your gun out and end the threat.”
Peaceful Protest After Verdict Leads To 18 Arrests After peaceful protests erupted in St. Paul in response to officer Jeronimo Yanez’ acquittal for shooting and killing Philando Castile, 18
people were arrested. Protesters overtook Inter-
state 94 on Friday (June 16), splitting off from the original meeting point at the state Capitol. The verdict was the center of the outrage.
Memorial Being Created For Charleston 9
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Michael Arad, the Israeli ar- chitect who designed the 9/11 memorial in New York, has been chosen to create a memo- rial to the nine worshippers who died in a racist shooting at a Charleston church in June 2015.
The planners of the memo- rial announced their choice on Saturday, the second anniver- sary of the massacre at Emanuel AME Church.
The Pastor, the Rev. Eric Manning said the memorial on church grounds would be a reminder of the resiliency of
the oldest African Methodist Episcopal church in the south. Dylann Roof sat through 45 minutes of Bible study at the church on June 17, 2015 before shooting the first of more than 70 shots, killing 9 members, including the church’s pastor. He has been
sentenced to death.
Another Noose Found In D. C. National Mall
The noose was found at the National Gallery of Art.
Philando Castile was shot 7 times by Minnesota Police officer Jeronimo Yanez. He was found ‘not guility’ on Friday. Emotional protesters after the verdict.
WASHINGTON, D. C. —-Au- thorities said a noose was found hanging from a lamp post outside a museum in Washington on Saturday after- noon, in the third such incident in recent weeks.
U.S. park police Sgt. Anna Rose said the noose was found outside the National Gallery of Art. She said her agency is cur- rently investigating how it got there.
Tourists found a noose last month on the floor of the Na- tional Museum of African American History and Culture. A few days earlier another
noose was found on the grounds of the Hirshhorn Mu- seum, which features contem- porary art and culture.
The three museums are all lo- cated on the National Mall, which runs between Capitol Hill and the Washington Mon- ument.
Nooses are potent and divi- sive symbols of the Jim Crow era of segregation and racially motivated mob violence in southern US states. Recent cases at southern colleges have seen nooses hung on a tree and a monument to a civil rights icon.
School Administrators Do Nothing After ‘Kill List’ Targeting Black Students Revealed
Administrators of Monta Vista High School in Cupertino, California are being blasted by African-American leaders for not taking action following the discovery of a hit list targeting black students last fall.
The hit list was posted to so- cial media last fall and accord- ing to Black community leaders the Monta Vista High School, the Fremont Union High School District as well as the sheriff all failed to act appro- priately.
“They created a kill list, and on the list were the names of six or seven African-American students in the school.”
Attorney Richard Richard- son filed suit on behalf of one of the students on the list, that student has since left to go to another school. “They gave a specific and credible threat that they would kill her with bullets, and they talked about how many bullets it would take.”
There were other acts of racism perpetrated as well. Just two months ago a message talking about lynching “n- ggers” was posted to Insta- gram. The students behind the
post received no punishment. “There is no discipline such as detention, such as suspen- sion or expulsion ever consid- ered,” according to
Richardson.
The school says they investi-
gated the incident in the fall and took “appropriate discipli- nary action.”
The sheriff has said the case has been referred to the district attorney for criminal prosecu- tion and the DA is currently re- viewing the case.
Nine members, including the pastor who was a state representative were murdered in June 2015 by white supremacist, Dylan Roof. The nine victims killed in the Mother Emanuel AME Church mas- sacre represented a wide cross-section of the historic South Carolina city of Charleston. From left to right: Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, Cynthia Hurd, Tywanza Sanders and Rev. Clementa Pinck- ney.
Amazon Plans To Buy Whole Foods For $13.7 Billion
Amazon.com jolted the gro- cery industry Friday when it announced plans to buy Whole Foods Market, introducing new uncertainty to a sector al- ready struggling to keep up with growing competition.
The $13.7 billion deal height- ens a years-long battle between Amazon, the Internet darling, and powerhouse merchants such as Walmart, which re- cently beefed up its online op- erations with a $3.3 billion purchase of an Amazon com- petitor.
Now Seattle-based Amazon — which for years has been
testing grocery innovations in quiet corners — could lay claim to a fleet of more than 460 stores throughout the United States, Canada and Britain.
Financial experts say, Ama- zon could dominate food retail within next two years with Whole Foods deal. News that
the e-commerce giant is buying Whole Foods sent grocery stocks reeling.
Kroger was down nearly 11 percent in afternoon trading. Supervalu dropped 13 percent while Costco dropped 5.8 per- cent and Sprouts Farmers was 5.2 percent lower.
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