Women’s March organizers to the National Rifle Association of America: “It is clear that your organization does not value the legal rights nor the human rights of any of us.”
On the heels of the not-guilty verdict for the former police officer who fatally shot her son, Valerie Castile blasts the “free reign” of law enforcement with “no regard for human life.”
Jeronimo Yanez, the former St. Anthony, Minnesota, police officer who fatally shot Castile in front of his girlfriend and her 4-year-old daughter during a July 2016 traffic stop was also acquitted of dangerous discharge of a firearm.
Minnesota Public Radio’s “74 Seconds” recaps former police officer Jeronimo Yanez’s livestreamed killing of Castile at a traffic stop, then delves into his current manslaughter trial.
More than 40 documentarians—including the minds behind “Chisholm ‘72: Unbought and Unbossed” and “Black Panthers: Vanguard of a Revolution”—say that citizen journalists have the #RightToRecord and Black lives matter.
Fusion’s Charles Pulliam-Moore: “Ultimately, those sorts of things, they’re about performing what a good cop looks like, not actually being a good cop.”
“We shouldn’t get too caught up in this notion that somehow people who are asking for fair treatment are somehow, automatically, anti-police, are trying to only look out for Black lives as opposed to others.”
Before Saturday’s game, players from the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx wore warm-up outfits honoring Philando Castile, Alton Sterling and the five fallen Dallas police officers.