That incident was also caught on video.
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“This had nothing to do with race and everything to do with the presence of the gun that Mr. Castile had”, Kelly says. Police said they were responding to a report that a man dressed in red and selling CDs used a gun to threaten someone outside a convenience store.
As we all know by now, the officer was white and Castile, African-American. “He started shooting for no reason”, Diamond Reynolds said in a Facebook video as a bloodied Castile lay in the driver’s seat dying.
A necessary and clear-eyed national conversation about how black lives matter as much as everyone else’s could be damaged. As a race, as a culture, we’re standing up for something.
“Would this have happened if those passengers, the driver were white?”
The U.S. Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into the shooting. “I told him to get his hand off it!” “I don’t think it would’ve”.
Diamond Reynolds, the girlfriend of police-shooting victim Philando Castile, urged against violence at protests in the aftermath of his death, which she streamed on Facebook Live using her cell phone during the fatal traffic stop in suburban St. Paul, Minnesota, on Wednesday evening.
As word of the shooting spread, relatives of the man joined scores of people who gathered at the scene and outside the hospital where he died.
Reynolds told reporters last week that her boyfriend was shot as he told the officer he had a permit to carry and was now armed while he reached for his wallet. The video shows her in a vehicle next to a bloodied Castile slumped in a seat.
Castile, 32, was shot Wednesday after he was pulled over in Falcon Heights, near Minneapolis, for a broken tail light.
Around 7 p.m. Saturday evening, hundreds of protesters came together outside of the Governor’s Mansion in St. Paul. St. Paul Public Schools said in a statement that Castile was a “team player who maintained great relationships with staff and students alike”. Bustle reports this is standard protocol for anyone who is a licensed firearm holder when they get pulled over by a police officer. 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”. John Choi, the Ramsey County attorney, would be the one to decide whether charges will be brought but is awaiting the results of BCA’s investigation.
Monnica Williams, director of the Center for Mental Health Disparities at the University of Louisville and an expert on the brain, said Reynolds’ reaction could also have been informed by a fear of police. Two civilians were also injured.
“He said he was upset about the recent police shootings”, Dallas Police Chief David Brown said. Five police officers were killed with more wounded, making the attack the deadliest incident for law enforcement since 9/11.
The bureau did not give the officers’ races. Dayton waded through the crowd as protesters chanted: “What do we want?” She said the officer didn’t follow “proper procedures”.
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Under state carry laws, those who are pulled over in Arkansas are not obligated to tell law enforcement officers if they are carrying a weapon, unless they are a convicted felon.
