Almost two months since her killing, and her killer is still free as a bird, and still drawing a paycheck, while refusing to cooperate with the investigation (in his defense, he has a constitutional right not to cooperate with the investigation, and, as a practical matter, probably has no reason to cooperate, as it is hard to imagine any plausible explanation for this shooting whatsoever).
But there are a couple of developments. The investigating agency has turned over all of its work-product to the county prosecutor, who will make the final determination as to whether to file a charge, or not. The prosecutor has given some indication as to his inclinations, by essentially repeating what Harteau (Minneapolis police chief at the time of the killing) said, "this shouldn't have happened, etc". As if we didn't already know that. He also mentioned that the victim was a "fine young woman". As if we didn't already know that. Most telling is that he publically stated that Castile's shooter should have been convicted. Leaving aside the issue as to whether he is right or not about that, and whether it is appropriate for him to question a jury verdict, that comment may not a good sign for Justine's killer. If the prosecutor believes that Castile's shooting was a bad shoot (and it's hard to argue that point, at all), how could the shooting of Justine be a good shoot, under any fathomable theory?
The other development is that Bob Kroll, head of the Minneapolis police union, wrote a ludicrous opinion piece in the local daily, accusing the prosecutor of pre-judging the case. He is concerned that this case will be treated inappropriately because the victim was a "fine young lady from a good neighborhood". He concedes that the victim was indeed a fine young lady, which he has no choice to do, because it's undisputed. How is it relevant that she is from a nice neighborhood? The prosecutor never mentioned her neighborhood, so he is just trying the muddy the waters by bringing that crap into it. What he completely fails to do in his opinion piece is to present any possible explanation for this ridiculous, asinine, and retarded shooting (and those adjectives assume that it was not a malicious shooting). That's probably because there is no explanation.
In any event, I'm still patiently waiting for a reasonable explanation as to why this woman was killed. There are many others that are as well, regardless of how little attention the mainstream media would like to give this case. Answers need to happen, and soon.
