NEW ORLEANS —Valerie Castile held nothing back
as she described feelings of outrage at the lack of impact that video
evidence of police shootings has had in convicting officers who
disproportionately use deadly force on black people.
“You saw what I saw, you heard what I heard,
& you felt what I felt... In a lot of these cases it's cut and
f----ing dry',” Castile said at the W.E.B Du Bois Plenary, a discussion
which takes place during the National Association of Black Journalists’
annual convention.
Valerie Castile’s son, Philando Castile was
shot and killed by Minnesota police officer, Jeronimo Yanez during a
traffic stop in July of 2016. Although the shooting was captured on a
Facebook Live stream video and although Yanez initially faced several
charges, including second-degree manslaughter, a jury acquitted him on
all counts in June.
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