Police did not immediately identify the victim.
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U.S. Capitol Police said one person has been arrested for crossing a police line. There were two passengers in the vehicle, Diamond Reynolds and her daughter.
St. Anthony Police interim police chief Jon Mangseth said the incident began when an officer pulled over a vehicle around 9 p.m. Wednesday in Falcon Heights, a St. Paul suburb that Mangseth’s department serves. “I told him to get his hands up!” the officer shouted.
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In the video of the Minnesota killing, broadcast on Facebook Live and already viewed more than 1.7 million times, Reynolds says the auto was pulled over for a broken tail light.
Castile “was trying to get out his ID and his wallet out of his pocket, and he let the officer know that he had a firearm and he was reaching for his wallet, and the officer just shot him in his arm”.
With Castile moaning and gasping for air, the police officer pointed his gun through the auto window. “He just shot his arm off”, Reynolds says in the video. She said Thursday that she never saw police try to provide aid to Philando Castile after he was shot, something Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton called “absolutely appalling”.
The policeman is alleged to have opened fire while Mr Castille’s girlfriend and her daughter were sat in the auto.
There are unconfirmed reports that two police officers were shot around the intersection of Market and Commerce in downtown Dallas.
The protests in Dallas came as demonstrations were being held in several US cities over the most recent fatal police shootings of black men in Minnesota and Louisiana.
The incident comes as police use of force, particularly against minorities, is back in the national spotlight after the video-recorded fatal shooting earlier this week of 37-year-old Alton Sterling by Baton Rouge police.
A police dispatcher reached by The Associated Press had no immediate comment.
“I’m exhausted of the laws and policies on the books being used to justify murder”, Levy-Pounds, a civil rights attorney, told the crowd as rain began to fall. “I have so much admiration and respect for officers and the families of the officers who sacrifice themselves to keeps us safe”, she later told Elle magazine of the controversy.
Reynolds can be heard saying, “Oh my God, please don’t tell me he’s dead, please don’t tell me my boyfriend went like that…”
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Anger has intensified when the officers involved in such incidents have been acquitted in trials or not charged at all.
