Police said on Twitter later a fourth officer had died. At least one more was in surgery. Both had been with the St. Anthony Police Department for four years and were put on administrative leave, as is standard.
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We’re tracking a protest at Westlake Center against two recent officer involved shootings.
The woman propped up her smartphone, pressed a couple of buttons and instantly was on Facebook live, explaining that her boyfriend had been shot by police.
He said they were not yet comfortable all suspects were in custody. An intensive search for suspects is now underway.
“It is a heartbreaking morning, to lose these four officers that proudly served our citizens”, he said.
The St Anthony Police Department said in a statement an unidentified black man was wounded in an officer-involved shooting during a traffic stop in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, at 9pm local time.
But there was no time to finish public grieving for Sterling before Castile was killed, and his girlfriend posted a video of the aftermath live on Facebook, bringing new horror into living rooms and offices: black men bleeding, black men dying after an encounter with police.
Amateur video shows an altercation between a man named Alton Sterling and two Baton Rouge police officers that apparently led to Sterling?s death by point-blank gunfire. Sterling was killed during an altercation with two white police officers. Graphic video of that incident caused an outcry on social media.
“We just have all these videos telling us what we knew was happening all along”, Hall said.
Scores of police and security officers were on hand. If an officer wants to disarm the driver they may legally do so. Their condition was not known, it said.
In Chicago, protesters shut down a stretch of the Dan Ryan Expressway – one of Chicago’s main arteries – for about 10 minutes on Thursday. Reynolds sat next to him and her young daughter was also traveling in the auto.
In St. Paul, about a thousand people gathered outside the governor’s mansion, chanting “Hey hey, ho ho, those killer cops have got to go”.
Investigators search a auto at the scene of a police involved shooting on Wednesday, July 6, 2016 in Falcon Heights, Minn. “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'”.
“At first I thought it was a firecracker”, one witness, Clarissa Myles, told CBS News.
“So I’m forced to confront that this kind of racism exists, and it’s incumbent upon all of us to vow and ensure that it doesn’t happen and doesn’t continue to happen”.
32-year-old Castile was shot by a police officer during a traffic stop in Falcon Heights when Castile reportedly went to reach into his back pocket for his ID as the officer had asked him for it.
US President Barack Obama described the killings as tragedies.
But minorities – distraught not just because of a series of high-profile police shootings in recent years, but also because of the long history of violence in America – expressed particular despair. “They’re symptomatic of a broader set of racial disparities that exist in our criminal justice system”, he said in remarks after arriving in Poland for a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation summit. Last week it disclosed it had made little progress in increasing the ranks of underrepresented minorities, with Hispanics making up 3% of the work force and African Americans 2%.
“Fuck! I told him not to reach for it!”
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“When people say black lives matter, that doesn’t mean blue lives don’t matter; it just means that all lives matter”. “I know my son … we know black people have been killed …”
