Philando Castile, 32, a black St. Paul schools employee, was shot and killed in Falcon Heights Wednesday night after St. Anthony police stopped his auto.
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Alton Sterling was shot and killed by police Tuesday outside of a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, supermarket, where he had been selling CDs.
“I can’t say how shocked I am and deeply, deeply offended that this would happen to somebody in Minnesota”, Dayton said.
A witness said one of them yelled “gun”, then the deadly shots were fired.
Multiple police officers have been killed during a protest in Dallas over shootings by police of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota.
Within hours, the Minnesota governor was pressing for the Justice Department to open its second investigation of the week into the death of a black man at the hands of police.
Law enforcement personnel transported Reynolds and her daughter to the Roseville Police Department, where Reynolds gave a statement to investigators about the incident.
Obama, who delivered the remarks after just arriving in Poland, said the recent killings shouldn’t just be troubling to those in the minority community.
A police dispatcher reached by The Associated Press had no immediate comment.
It said the officer involved had been placed on paid administrative leave, as is standard procedure for Falcon Heights, which is about 6 miles (10 km) northeast of downtown Minneapolis.
“A threat comes in any color to an officer”, Maclatchie said. Harris, of Glendale, Arizona, said she watched Castile grow up in St. Paul alongside her son, who was about the same age.
The graphic video taken by the victim’s girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, and broadcast on her Facebook page shows Philando Castile covered in blood in the driver’s seat of a auto as the officer points a gun into the vehicle.
“They took me to jail”.
The shooting of Castile was remarkable – and heartbreaking – because it was live-streamed by his fiancee, who calmly narrated the action and showed viewers the dying man groaning and bleeding in the front seat.
“Everyone was screaming, people were running”, she said.
“Please, officer, don’t tell me that you just did this to him”, said Reynolds as she recorded on her cell phone.
A person who appeared to be an armed police officer stood at the car’s window. Slager was charged with murder in June 2015.
In the past, the four-time NBA MVP and three-time NBA champion has made social statements about the shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice by Cleveland police and was one of several players to wear “I Can’t Breathe” T-shirts during warm-ups after Eric Garner was choked to death by NYPD officers on video in 2014.
Relatives of Castile described him as a good, hard-working man who had been employed for years as cafeteria supervisor at a Montessori school in St. Paul. “We’re being hunted every day”.
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The president praised the “vast majority” of police officers for doing “a risky job” well, and said there’s no contradiction between supporting police officers and calling out systemic biases across the criminal justice system.
