#jeronimo yanez

[odinsblog]

Dear white people: Please step tf up. We are still waiting.

[frontpagewoman]

[misangremellama]

Latinx Anti-Blackness Killed Philando Castile

“We condemn the murder of Philando Castile and the routine miscarriage of any justice in Officer Yanez’ acquittal.”

As news broke that a court acquitted Officer Jeronimo Yanez, the 29-year-old Latino police officer who shot and killed Philando Castile while he wore his seatbelt in the passenger side of his car last summer, reactions of outrage and disbelief poured throughout the country.

Castile’s mother took to Facebook telling people to understand the license to kill this decision grants police officers.

Groups dedicated to racial justice called on others in the self-described resistance that rose after the fall election to prioritize responding to this case and to incorporate work against state violence and racism into their program.

“For Latinxs, the case demands a specific conversation. Marisa Franco, Director of Mijente issued the following reaction:

We condemn the murder of Philando Castile and the routine miscarriage of any justice in Officer Yanez’ acquittal. Latinxs have to stand against racism and police violence tonight.

The fear that Officer Yanez had of Philando Castile in his passenger seat is one that is taught to us and one that is prevalent in our communities. We cannot denounce him without also actively confronting Latinx anti-Blackness. It must be undone.

At a time when the US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce is encouraging our community’s cooperation with the Trump regime and as non-Black Latinxs are courted into the project of white supremacy in this country, Philando Castile’s murder is a tear in that fabric that calls for us to resist.

For some of us this is an act of solidarity, for others it is an act of self-preservation. Non-Black Latinxs need to show up for the movement for Black Lives including the Afro-Latinxs who are often erased in these conversations.

Tonight we mourn with those who loved Mr. Castile. Tonight we share the outrage with those who are still waiting for justice to be made real in this country. Now, tomorrow, and onward we commit ourselves to a fight against criminalization, against state violence, and for racial justice for all of us, a justice that begins by making Black lives matter.”

--Stephanie Gasca, Communications Director for Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha in Minneapolis, responded:

“As a woman who identifies as Latinx and a mother of Black children, now is the time for us to stand with our Black sisters and brothers like never before. Our struggles against systemic oppression and the criminalization of Black and Brown folks in our state and in our country are not two separate battles. In the Twin Cities, Black and Brown communities have carried the weight of this painful oppression and the real impacts it has on our daily lives in two separate lanes for far too long. Now is the time for us to carry this weight together and fight together against the systems that were built to destroy us.”

--Emilia Gonzalez Avalos, the director of Navigate and a Mijente member based in Minneapolis added:

We call for Latinxs to protest this verdict because we will not let Officer Yanez be the face of our community. Instead he is the poster child for the real life consequences of when we let anti-Black racism go unchallenged. We want to live in a city where Black lives matter and Latinxs must be participants in making that slogan a reality.

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For more about mijente, visit their site here.

[micdotcom]

Shortly after a jury found Officer Jeronimo Yanez not guilty of second-degree manslaughter in the death of Philando Castile on Friday, Castile's mother gave a clear-throated, vehement condemnation of the state of Minnesota — and by extension, the rest of the nation — for allowing police officers to fatally shoot peaceful black citizens with impunity.

"My son loved this city, and this city killed my son," Valerie Castile said outside the courthouse Friday, "We're not evolving as a civilization, we're devolving." Read more. (6/17/17, 12:02 PM)

[fishandbikes]

SEVEN TIMES

The cop shot him SEVEN times. And he was acquitted of EVERY SINGLE CHARGE

[tswriting-blog]

On Philando Castile - There is nothing I could write. There are no words That could explain to A child Why her father was murdered In front of her. I do not know any words to comfort A child Trying to comfort Her mother In the back of a cop car. I do not know how to tell A child They will not be getting ice cream With their father. I do not know how to tell A child They can not be with Dada Now, or ever Again. After all this, How could a jury find The words “Not Guilty?” How do you look at A child, Who witnessed The taking of A life as innocent As her own And say “No wrong was done.” How do you look at A child, Now fatherless, And say “He deserved to die.”

Tiffany Smalls (tswriting.tumblr.com)

[poetrex]

I just watched dashcam footage of police officer Jeronimo Yanez emptying his clip into Philando Castile in front of his girlfriend and her four-year-old daughter, and I cannot stop crying. It is beyond heartbreaking. There is no emoticon or reaction gif for this; there are no words and I have no poetry. Today is one of those days that, were it not for my wife and son, I should no longer wish to inhabit this planet with my fellow man, but seek the company of birds. There is no justice in this world; no comfort, but rage and anguish.

[what-the-hellblog]

What-The-Hell:  Jeronimo Yanez

Take a good look at this face.  This is the face of yet another blue thug.  This cop fired seven shots into Philando Castile with his girlfriend and 4-year old daughter helplessly watching.  The jury in this animal’s trial let him go free.  They didn’t care that he murdered a man who was complying with all of this requests with a child in the vehicle.  They didn’t care that this child could have been hit by this murderer’s bullets and killed as well.  They didn’t care that Philando’s mother, girlfriend, daughter, friends and children he mentored lost someone they loved. They just saw another black man and figured, “hey, who cares?  Let’s get out of here, I’m hungry.”

I have been angry over police killings before, but this one has me at a Category 5.  I look at this smug prick’s face and want to smash it into thousands of pieces.  I want to shove Philando’s daughter’s photo in his murdering face and ask, no demand, to know what he plans to tell this young lady when she cries for her father at night?  Oh wait, he could give a shit.  What’s killing another nigger?  Just another day at the fucking office for this pig and the rest just like him.

I want to ask this murderer’s wife a question:  how the hell do you even stand to look at the man you married knowing he killed someone while a child witnessed her father’s death?  How do you sleep next to a monster?  How do you kiss him?  Wrap your arms around him?  Hold the hands that held the gun that ended a man’s life while his daughter watched?  What are you going to tell your children?  Because you’d better believe they’re going to find out, we’ll make sure of it.  Have you seen the video?  You’re husband took his time calling for an ambulance or backup.  Philando could have been saved or at least attempted to be saved.  But your murdering husband decided it wasn’t a big deal.  Let him die.  Just another nigger, right?

This murderer had the gall to shed tears at the trial.  Fuck your tears, murderer!  You deserve no sympathy for what you’ve done.  You deserve nothing good in this life or the next ever again.  You have joined the ranks of other murderers.  Feel good about that?  You feel like a man now?  Because you are not a man.  You are a coward.  You could have told Philando to put his hands up and you could have taken his gun if you were that afraid.  But you weren’t afraid.  You wanted to kill him.  You wanted to put your bullets in a black man’s body and feel like a god.  You can now say that you are a god.  Gods are petty, ruthless, cowardly, and care about nothing but themselves.  Congratulations, you are now on the same level as Zeus,

Here is what I wish for you, murderer.  I wish you misery.  I wish you sadness.  I wish you heartache.  I wish you a lifetime of nightmares, of depression, of anxiety, of looking over your shoulder every day of your miserable life.  I hope you are always greeted with contempt, hatred, drinks in your face, slashed tires, rocks through your windows, unemployment, and ridicule.  Know that there are MILLIONS of people who hate you, who think you are trash, who wish they could smash your face in.  MILLIONS.  You have left a legacy that will follow you forever.  And we will never let you forget it.  Do not ever ask for forgiveness.  You do not deserve it.

Now look at this face.  This was Philando Castile.  He was a father.  A son.  A mentor.  A black man who deserved much better.  He was slaughtered by a cop.  The justice system did nothing for him or his family.  There was no justice.  Even when he was honest and told that murderer he was carrying a gun he was LEGALLY allowed to carry, the murderer decided to shoot him anyway.  Now he is dead.  And his family has to deal with this for the rest of their lives.  His daughter has to relive the nightmare of seeing her father murdered.  I pray that she is surrounded by love and guidance to get her through what will be difficult times ahead.  I pray she can find joy somehow, even though she lives in a country that hates her.  I pray she succeeds in spite of that hate.  That she becomes the black girl magic she is destined to be.  That she carries her father’s spirit of giving back with her to help her community.  I pray that she knows she is loved very much.

Rest in peace, Philando.  You no longer have to deal with the hatred this country has given you.