The following article is a classic example of how the liberal left can look at evidence and immediately ignore the obvious:
The assumption is that Philip Castile was stopped 52 times because of racial profiling. One should note that these traffic stops happened over a span of 14 years, so we are talking about 3 to 4 stops per year. Of course there is no actual evidence of racial profiling:
No recent information is available on the racial breakdown of drivers stopped or ticketed by police in Falcon Heights, the mostly white suburb where the shooting occurred, or in other Minnesota towns. Minnesota is not among the handful of states that require police to keep such data.
This reminds me of how the New Jersey Highway Patrol was severely criticized for profiling black drivers. This had to be true, because black drivers got more speeding tickets. Then someone did a real study. The results were spectacular but odds are you don’t know that. This study looked at cars that were speeding where cameras verified the race. This showed that black drivers were routinely speeding more than white drivers. When the original study was adjusted to show what percentage of drivers actually speeding got speeding tickets it turned out that whites were more likely than blacks to get a ticket.
That is the problem with the liberal media. They start every article with an assumption, often incorrect, and then mold the facts to fit their opinion. If you want to know why this guy was stopped so many times, ask any cop you know. They will quickly tell you that they usually have a reason for pulling you over. In some cases they may have had a directive from management to issue more tickets. There have even been cases where police were given a quota of tickets to issue. But those cases appear to be rare. In reality police pull people over because something brings this to their attention. I remember once riding with a police officer in a Dallas neighborhood about two o’clock in the morning. He noticed a white guy driving slowing down the street. He turned around, put on his flashers and pulled him over for not having a front license plate. I asked him why he did that and he said:
“A white guy in this neighborhood at this hour is either lost or looking to buy drugs. In either case, I want to talk to him.” In this particular case, the guy was lost. You can call this profiling if you prefer, but what is the option? To pull a TSA and strip search everyone so you avoid appearing to profile the people most likely to be a risk?
What this article ignored was why this guy was pulled over in the first place.
It wasn’t because of a broken tail light. This happened during broad day light. There is a video showing the tails working. But more significantly we know why he was pulled over. There is a recording of the traffic stop and the police officers told dispatch why they were pulling this car over. There was a BOLO for an armed suspect who held up a store in the area two days earlier. This guy met the description.
By the way, how many times have you heard that he had a CCW? So far, no one has found any evidence that he had a CCW. It appears as though liberals confused authorization to purchase a gun and a CCW permit. Yes, they are that stupid. If this is accurate, then he couldn’t have been reaching for his CCW permit because he didn’t have one.
By the way, if you look at the video which has caused so much outrage, you can see what looks like a gun in the picture. The witness says he was reaching for his CCW permit which was on his left thigh. That would be a silly place to carry a CCW, but a logical place to carry a gun.
At a minimum there is a lot more to the story, but the main stream media has already portrayed this as an unjustified killing of a black man. Have you ever wondered about that? Whenever a police officer shoots a black man, all the activists assume the officer is guilty and the black man is innocent. Then they claim the problem is too many people assume guilt without evidence. That is true, but so far it sure looks like cops are the ones most likely to be falsely accused. Far too often police officers are tried and convicted in the court of public opinion in a rush to judgement with little or no regard to the actual facts. It doesn’t help with the President of the United States weighs in with a patently false charge that we have an epidemic of white police officers killing black people without just cause. There is little evidence of that. The real epidemic is black on black crime and now a dramatic increase in the murder of police officers.
The “victim’s” family has already raised huge sums of money and they are instant celebrities. People are protesting all over the country and five police officers, from Dallas Texas, were murdered at least partially because too many black people really think cops routinely shoot black guys for no reason. Wow, that really does wonders for race relations in this country.
In case like this, the false narrative tends to live on while the truth is buried. We still see signs at the rallies saying “Hands up, don’t shoot” even though that is based on a patently false eye witness account by a Michael Brown accomplice. Unfortunately the video of this guy making these false charges was broadcast everywhere and far too few people know that his story was so obviously false that even Eric Holder had to acknowledge that and he recommended no charges be brought against the officer who shot Michael Brown.
The best solution to any problem is to start with the truth. Instead we are witnessing the tragic results when the main stream media helps promote a patently false narrative. In reality police, including white police, are not the problem with regard to the devastating increase in black on black crime. They are the solution. This false narrative may pay huge political dividends but only at tremendous personal cost to the people these false prophets claim to represent.
TDM
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