http://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/06/23/why-the-cop-who-shot-philando-castile-was-rightly-acquitted/
Only in retrospect did the tragedy of the Philando Castile shooting become apparent. Today, we know that Castile was a decent man, that he was a beloved employee at a school cafeteria, and that he was licensed to carry the gun in his pocket when he was shot and killed by Officer Jeronimo Yanez of the St. Anthony, Minn., Police Department on July 6, 2016. And as the horror of it all became more starkly real, as more details about Castile's life were revealed, the outrage that greeted Yanez's acquittal became all the more justified.
Or so it would seem to anyone uninformed on the facts and applicable law. This is not to say it was a "good" shooting in the sense that Castile would have shot Yanez had he not been shot first. There is no evidence to suggest Castile planned to shoot the officer. But there was evidence, sufficient to acquit, that Yanez believed his life was in danger when he shot Castile.
One can be saddened by Castile's death and still accept the jury's verdict as just. There is an expression in the courthouse that applies to incidents like this one: "Awful but lawful." It is especially apt in the death of Philando Castile. ...
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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