My take on the shooting is that both the officer and the motorist made some mistakes. Having researched the case, I don’t believe that Philando Castile was actually reaching for his concealed carry pistol. He did, however, tell the officer he was armed and make a hand movement consistent with drawing a concealed firearm.
….The bigger mistake, in my opinion, was made by Officer Yanez. He appeared to panic when confronted by the fact that the driver he stopped was armed and didn’t seem to be paying proper attention to his verbal commands.
Source: The Philando Castile Shooting and Some Advice for My Cop Readers | Active Response Training
Out of all the verbose crap floating around, Greg’s analysis is a real jewel above anything else.
Cop or Civilian, you need to read this and learn from it.
Good article. I do wonder how many departments are putting more emphasis on racial sensitivity training over actually useful, force related skill.
And thus the vicious cycle. Poorly trained officer “fear bites”, which is erroneously blamed on racism, which leads to cuts in good training, which leads to more poorly trained officers “fear biting”, and so on.