Black gun owners worried by acquittal in Castile shooting

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9. Perhaps someone can educate me here........

The most critical point relating to this case revolves around the clarity of instructions that Castile received from the cop. It's hard for me to believe that a cop -- informed by a driver that he was armed -- would not instruct the driver to keep his hands on the drivers wheel......or otherwise in plain sight. I recall reading that the officer made a request of this sort.

This said, if the driver failed to follow the instruction the cop would be justified in *presenting* his sidearm while barking the instruction again. From recollection of the video, it's unclear to me what the officer was seeing -- so I feel I need to suspend judgement.

Like the Sandy Hook tragedy*, the failure of the media to hone in on the most salient details of this story is migraine-inducing.

* Re. Sandy Hook: I don't recall any media outlet pointing out that Lanza's mother could have prevented the tragedy by keeping the firearms locked away, with her son unaware of the safe combination. Same for commentary on DU and other social media. Insanity.