In a recent interview with ABC News, Tom Kelly, Yanez’s attorney said he had reason to pull Castile over and reason to use deadly force. Castile died at the hospital. Reynolds responded, “You told him to get his ID, sir, his driver’s license”.
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The Star Tribune reported that as the demonstration continued protesters took to Interstate 94 and officers began to redirect traffic from there around 7 p.m.
“How do you advocate for that”, Richmond asked, “and then you watch the result of it, with a young black man who says, ‘I have a permit, and you sit by quietly?”
No, St. Anthony police officer Jeronimo Yanez pulled him over because the 32-year-old man had a “wide-set nose”.
The Bahamas has issued a rare travel advisory for its citizens visiting the U.S., recommending particular care for young men in cities affected by tensions over recent police shootings.
The audio also confirmed that police officers on the scene did call for medical attention. In the video, Reynolds said Castile was pulled over for having a broken tail light.
Authorities, protest leaders and the mother of one of the victims have appealed for calm as over 300 demonstrators, angry at the latest killings of black men by police officers, were arrested in a weekend of intense, sometimes violent nationwide protests.
The license plate number given in the video (not revealed on the air) reportedly matched the plates on Castile’s auto.
Yanez and officer Joseph Kauser are on paid administrative leave during the investigation. The video was streamed and recorded by Castile’s girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds.
Castile was shot in Falcon Heights, a mostly white community of 5,000 served primarily by the nearby St. Anthony Police Department.
“I think officers are vigilant every time they put the badge on and the uniform on”.
“Americans of all races and all backgrounds are rightly outraged by the inexcusable attacks on police, whether it’s in Dallas or anyplace else”, Obama said.
Hatchett, who is known for her TV show Judge Hatchett, said Castile was not fighting with the police, was not trying to get his gun and was not doing anything unlawful.
Reynolds’ appearance on Good Morning America comes a day after Thomas Kelly, the lawyer for Yanez, said the shooting was not about race but about a gun and Castile not obeying orders. In that same video, a police officer is heard saying, “I told him not to reach for it”.
The union that represents more than 5,000 officers in the state, including the St. Anthony Police Department, released a statement from Law Enforcement Labor Services executive director Sean Gormley. “But again the public needs to understand we have to have the total picture and that is what investigators are looking at”, he said.
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Kelly said Yanez was, “Reacting to the actions of the driver of the vehicle and included in those actions were the presence and production of a weapon”.
