The grisly aftermath of the shooting was caught on video by Castile’s girlfriend, who said that he had told police he was licensed to carry a weapon and was shot while reaching for his wallet.
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If the grand jury determines charges are warranted in this case or this office makes that decision, I assure you that we will prosecute this case to the fullest extent of the law.
What Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg thinks could be the most “emotional, raw and visceral way” to communicate on his platform, could just as easily be sensitive or violent live content. To censor, or not to censor, is a quandary the social network has been tight-lipped on to date, no doubt mindful of the challenge it faces monitoring all those live videos as they come in. The sheer scale of Facebook meant it then travelled out a speed, with it feeling all the more real to people because they saw it happen themselves. “This has become something that people have expressed a lot of concern about”.
Sterling, who also was black, was killed Tuesday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, after he scuffled with two white police officers outside a convenience store.
The recent events of the officer-involved shooting incident resulting in the death of Philando Castile in Falcon Heights are tragic and sad in so many ways.
Castile, 32, was shot dead after being pulled over for having a broken rear light in Minnesota on Wednesday. “I told him to get his hand off it”. “Cops fed him four bullets”.
Reynolds sought to clarify what happened before the live stream began Wednesday, saying the officer only asked if they knew why they were being pulled over and if they had licenses and registration. Yanez has been placed on administrative leave.
Castile’s family is calling for an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice, independent of the state probe by the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
Police say the group made their way to a nearby commercial street where they broke the storefront window of one business as well as windows of an unattended police squad auto.
Writing on her official website, she continued: “The last thing we need is to fuel anger with more hate or violence, especially toward the many incredible police officers who risk their lives every single day to protect our families and communities”.
KARE could identify only this, from July 2, as a near-in-time robbery that St. Anthony police might have been investigating. A year earlier, a photograph showed him standing guard at a fallen-officers memorial. Yanez’s attorney, Thomas Kelly, didn’t return a call seeking comment Thursday. But in a statement, the company said, “Live video is a relatively new and growing format, and we are committed to iterating and improving on how we handle content, address violations and keep the community safe”.
“He loved those kids so much”, teacher Anna Garnaas said at a vigil for Castile outside the school Thursday evening. “I knew him as warm and amusing; he called me his ‘wing man.’ He wore a shirt and tie to his supervisor interview and said his goal was to one day ‘sit on the other side of this table'”.
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“This has to cease”. This is the scene outside of Governor’s Mansion in St. Paul. Dayton waded through the crowd as protesters chanted: “What do we want?”
