Minnesota woman broadcasts police stop and shooting on Facebook Live

Facebook can&#x27;t sell itself as a new live media platform and then just remove videos that are politically disturbing.<p>As an aside, this is the 559th person killed by police in the United States this year. His name was Philando Castile‬. They were pulled over for a broken tail light. He was shot with a 4 year old child in the backseat of the car.<p>(you can find the video on youtube, twitter, and elsewhere, but be forewarned, it is disturbing)

After reading a few comments on how to behave when police stops you and how to tell them you&#x27;re carrying gun I can&#x27;t shake the feeling that this country is trapped in some sort of a deadly staring contest, if you blink you can die. You have armed people trying to police a nation where everyone can have a gun, and many do. With this sort of tension on a daily basis things will go wrong, someone will make a mistake, which seems to be what is happening every week. And then people see the news, get scared and buy more guns, because they feel in danger, and later you read more comments on how they should calmly explain that they had a gun when police stopped them.

It appears someone posted it to YouTube<p>Pretty grim<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=1wuyXayGMB8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=1wuyXayGMB8</a>

America has some institutional and cultural problems that no other developed, westernized democracy has, at least in terms of the extent of the problems. One of these is policing.<p>What happens in these cases is taxpayers will need to pay for a settlement. The officers, and their departments, are often not held seriously accountable. In the recent shooting of Alton Sterling that just happened, the officer&#x27;s body cameras &quot;fell off.&quot; Oh, oops. Why is that acceptable? Compare this to other professions: A surgeon makes a mistake during a procedure, the response is not &quot;oops.&quot; It is: you will lose your life savings, even potentially their medical license. Police should be the most transparent of organizations, and the most scrutinized, not immune to it. What happened to protect and serve?

&gt; &quot;ma&#x27;am you&#x27;re just being detained right now until we can get this all sorted out.&quot;<p>Apparently owning a gun and letting the police know of that fact is enough to get you killed. Good luck sorting things out.

Yesterday a man was killed by an officer in Louisiana. Headline: &quot;Man shot by BRPD multiple times to chest and back; two officers placed on leave&quot;.<p>How the heck is &quot;leave&quot; a punishment worthy of homicide? And why are these videos always recorded by witnesses rather than body cameras on the police?<p>If we want to stop this from happening then change the officer&#x27;s punishment to be a prison sentence, strap a camera on every police officer, make the footage available to the public, and fire people when the camera &quot;falls off&quot; or is &quot;obstructed&quot;.

Why can&#x27;t we just take guns away from police officers. It would improve the safety of minorities, and also likely help reduce the attitude problems many officers have.

Why has HN taken this off the front page without explanation?

As someone who carries on a regular basis, the #1 rule when dealing with the police is compliance.<p>Yes sir, no sir, the weapon is on my hip, my hands are on the steering wheel and you don&#x27;t move unless told to do so. A cop is always on edge during a traffic stop but even more so after you tell them you have a weapon. Quick movements after you tell them you are armed is not going to end well.<p>Obviously we don&#x27;t know the whole story here as the video starts after the shooting, but hopefully there is body cam footage to clear everything up.

this is heartbreaking<p>i am so saddened by the loss of life and i am so amazed by lavish and her girl<p>they are both affectingly strong<p>my best attempt at keeping my composure as well as them:<p>are officers trained to withhold giving medical aide?<p>i&#x27;ve seen this a lot in police videos, especially where a death is involved<p>why is this officer continuing to point a gun at a dying person?<p>was the officer preparing to shoot either the person bravely live broadcasting the situation in defiance of the gun, or the child in the backseat, if one tried to apply pressure to the wound or offer water to the victim?

once the lady was cuffed on the ground, I had to turn off - her anguish &#x2F; pain got real fast. and to see her daughter in the background... :(

Currently the top story on the New York Daily News and the Washington Post.

Link is dead.

The disturbing thing for me is the cop seemed more concerned with keeping his gun out and barking orders than in administering any sort of aid. It seems the God complex is strong in this one that he can&#x27;t even render aid to a dying human being but instead belittles him &quot;I told you not to move&quot; as if that excuses all of this. That lack of compassion is so disturbing.<p>I&#x27;m not a cop, I don&#x27;t know why it is more important to point a gun at a dying man than render aid, but that&#x27;s just one of the many thoughts this video evoked for me. So sad. I&#x27;m sure there&#x27;s much more to this story to come.<p>Edit: if you are going to down vote please explain why. The cop is literally watching the man die right in front of him.

Only a good guy with a gun can stop a bad cop with a gun.