“I don’t think it would have”, Dayton said to the crowd outside his residence Thursday.
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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”.
A sniper opened fire on police officers in the heart of Dallas, Thursday evening, killing five officers and injuring six others during protests over two recent fatal police shootings of black men, according to police.
The fatal shooting of Philando Castile, 32, on Wednesday night in a St. Paul suburb has sparked days of protests in Minnesota and cities around the United States, intensified by a video of the bloody aftermath Castile’s girlfriend Diamond Reynolds streamed live on the internet from the vehicle.
Yanez’s lawyer, Thomas Kelly, tells WCCO that his client feels incredibly sad for the Castile family and is working with investigators and St. Anthony Police. “This had nothing to do with race. Again, it has nothing to do with race, it has everything to do with the presence of a gun”. It’s the repeated punching of “sir”, said reflexively and without irony, that moved Reynolds’ video from a way to convey the wrongfulness of Castile’s death into a yet more sweeping social commentary.
Some commenters were angry there was still no mention of Castile at the time of its statement on the police deaths.
Sterling, who was black, was shot and killed Tuesday by two white Baton Rouge police officers.
John Lozoya, the founder of the Minnesota Chapter of the National Latino Peace Officers Association, said Yanez has been an active volunteer through that organization as well.
Authorities with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said he and fellow St. Anthony police officer Joseph Kauser stopped Philando Castile as he was driving near Larpenteur Avenue and Fry Street in Falcon Heights just after 9 p.m. Wednesday. Both are now on administrative leave.
Local police also killed Sam Holmes, a 31-year-old black man, and Marcus Golden, a 24-year-old black man, both in 2015, because they allegedly tried to hit the officers with their cars.
Yanez and Kauser graduated Mankato together with law enforcement degrees in 2010, according to a commencement program. They were named best in their graduating class, and Dobratz said they seemed cut out for the challenges of police work.
In a photo from the 2014 Annual Report of the Police Department of Falcon Heights, St. Anthony police officer Jeronimo Yanez takes part in the Standing of the Memorial Guard at the State Capitol in St. Paul in May 2014.
He referred to him as “passionate” and “good-natured” and asked that the public be patient as the investigation into Castile’s death continues.
Yanez is a “sensitive man” who is very distressed by what’s happened, Kelly added later in a phone interview.
“There is never a justification for shooting or killing somebody when you are not in danger”, he said. Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh called Black Lives Matter a “terrorist movement”, while U.S. Rep. Roger Williams, a Republican from Texas, said the “spread of misinformation and constant instigation by prominent leaders, including our president, have contributed to the modern day hostility we are witnessing between the police and those they serve”.
Castile’s fiancée live-streamed the immediate aftermath of the shooting, showing Castile slumped against the driver’s seat, with blood soaking through his shirt.
In the video, Reynolds speaks and turns her camera to Castile, who’s wearing a blood-covered white shirt. A clearly distraught person who appears to be a police officer stands at the car’s window, tells her to keep her hands up and says: “I told him not to reach for it. I told him to get his hand out”. “He was just getting his license and registration, sir”. Court records indicate it was at least the 32nd time Castile had been pulled over in the Minneapolis-St.
There was “more than the reason for the equipment violation” to stop Castile’s auto, Kelly said, without specifying other reasons, the Times said.
On Friday, Illinois politicians responded to Thursday night’s tragic shooting at a Dallas protest that left five police officers dead.
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“We look at a lot of civil rights activists from the past and the present and how it is always young people who propel these issues forward”, Fuchs said.
