Well I don't know. We only saw the footage after he was shot. I know what the woman said but we need to know what actually transpired prior to that shooting. That's the missing footage.
But I agree, I fear more riots on a bigger national scale may insue. Too much of this lately and it doesn't seem to matter whether or not black people are in the wrong or not, they'll rage out over shit like this no matter what.
But I agree, I fear more riots on a bigger national scale may insue. Too much of this lately and it doesn't seem to matter whether or not black people are in the wrong or not, they'll rage out over shit like this no matter what.
It's quick decision by officer. Life or death. Is he thug gang banger ? Rappers rap about it, they have "colored" themselves in this picture that any cop seeing one reach for anything like a gun and not OBEYING the officer of the law is going to react in less than a second to protect and shoot.
Omg....
Fk...
I wouldnt be a cop for a million buks.. the anxiety that is put into their minds is what is to blame..
Its also what save them.. but jesus man. This shooting i want to know more.. the louisana shooting... i read some real bad yhings posted about the victim.. so if true.. not good
Fk...
I wouldnt be a cop for a million buks.. the anxiety that is put into their minds is what is to blame..
Its also what save them.. but jesus man. This shooting i want to know more.. the louisana shooting... i read some real bad yhings posted about the victim.. so if true.. not good
Yikes. Hate to see this stuff happening so much. Watching the video I couldn't believe how calm the girl was with the dude bleeding out next to her. We don't have the full story yet, but seems like this one is potentially worse than the Alton situation. That guy was resisting and allegedly had a gun. I'm generally skeptical of the popo but try not to rush to judge. Will be watching to see what else comes out on this.
A Minnesota traffic stop turned deadly Wednesday evening when a police officer opened fire on a black driver and killed him — less than 48 hours after another fatal police shooting in Louisiana.
Wednesday’s victim, 32-year-old Philando Castile, died at a Minneapolis hospital, a family member told The Washington Post.
The confrontation’s bloody aftermath was broadcast live on Facebook by a female passenger in the car.
“He killed my boyfriend,” the woman, whose Facebook page named her as Lavish Reynolds, said in the video.
As blood soaked through Castile’s shirt, Reynolds said on camera that Castile was legally licensed to carry a firearm and was reaching for his identification when the officer started to shoot.
“He let the officer know that he had a firearm and he was reaching for his wallet and the officer just shot him in his arm,” she said.
The St. Anthony Police Department confirmed the driver’s death during a brief press conference Thursday morning; but the department did not identify the officer involved in the shooting or the officer’s race.
Castile moaned and appeared to lose consciousness as the officer could be heard in the background shouting expletives in apparent frustration.
“Ma’am, keep your hands where they are,” he shouted at Reynolds. “I told him not to reach for it! I told him to get his hands up.”
“You told him to get his ID, sir, his driver’s license,” Reynolds responded. “Oh my god. Please don’t tell me he’s dead. Please don’t tell me my boyfriend just went like that.”
The incident occurred in Falcon Heights, Minn., a quiet St. Paul suburb that is a few miles from St. Anthony.
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), whose district is about 2 miles from the scene, told CNN that the recent police-involved shooting was not an isolated incident.
“There is a systematic targeting of African Americans and a systematic lack of accountability,” he said.
The Justice Department said Thursday morning that it was “aware of the incident and is assessing the situation.”
Castile’s death follows the fatal police shooting of another black man, Alton Sterling, on Tuesday in Baton Rouge, La.
In both cases, cellphone video footage of the incident or its immediate aftermath quickly circulated on social media, fueling anger and protests over the police officers’ actions.
From her video, Reynolds appears to have begun recording seconds after her boyfriend was shot, just after 9 p.m. local time. (The footage appears to have been flipped when it was uploaded to social media sites, mistakenly suggesting Castile was the passenger in the car when, in fact, he was the driver.)
Castile’s mother, Valerie Castile, told CNN early Thursday morning that she first found out her son had been shot when she heard her daughter, who was watching the video on social media, start to scream.
“I was like, ‘What’s going on? What’s wrong with you?’” she told CNN.
She said she rushed to the scene to see him but was stopped by police.
“I asked them where was my son was at,” she told CNN. “I didn’t want to talk to anyone. I just wanted to know where my son was because I didn’t want my son to die alone.”
She said in the interview Thursday morning that she still had not been allowed to identity her son’s body.
Valerie Castile described her son as a “laid back” and “quiet” man who worked to provide for his family.
“He’s not a gang banger; he’s not a thug,” she told CNN. “He’s very respectable and I know he didn’t antagonize that officer in any way to make him feel like his life was in danger.”
She said she assumes her son did have a firearm with him because “that was something that we always discussed” but that he had a license for it. She said she always taught him to “comply” with law enforcement.
“The key thing in order to try to survive being stopped by the police is to comply,” she told CNN. “Whatever they ask you to do, do it. Don’t say nothing. Just do whatever they want you to do. So what’s the difference in complying and you get killed anyway?
''I made sure my kids understood the difference in being law abiding, and that the police were there to help,” she added. “I never once in my life have thought that my son would actually be killed by the persons that are supposed to protect and serve him.”
Within hours after the incident, a crowd had gathered at the site of the shooting, according to local television stations. When authorities removed Castile’s car, angry protesters tried to block the tow truck, according to reporter Melissa Colorado.
As vehicle was towed away, the protesters chanted “murderer,” reported Fox9’s Ted Haller.
Candles were placed at the site where Castile was shot.
Protesters then gathered outside the Minnesota governor’s mansion, chanting “Philando Castile.”
Castile’s family was stunned by the shooting.
“He’s gone,” Philando’s sister, Allysza Castile, 23, said through tears during a brief interview with The Post early Thursday.
She said her entire family was gathered at the hospital and as of 1 a.m. had yet to be allowed to see Castile.
“They won’t let us see him,” she said, sobbing. “We’ve been here probably an hour, the whole family is here, and they won’t let us see him.”
In the video, Reynolds was seen telling the police that her boyfriend was a “good man” who works for St. Paul Public Schools.
“He doesn’t have no record or anything,” she said. “He’s never been in jail or anything. He’s not a gang member or anything.”
A website for J. J. Hill Montessori Magnet School lists Phil Castile as its cafeteria supervisor.
Clarence Castile, Philando’s uncle, told the Minneopolis Trubune that his nephew had worked in the school’s cafeteria for 12 to 15 years, “cooking for the little kids.” He said his nephew was “a good kid” who grew up in St. Paul. Philando Castile’s facebook page says he attended the University of Minnesota.
Philando’s mother had “broken down” over the death of her only son, the uncle told the Star Tribune.
Police in St. Anthony, a village outside of Minneapolis, seemed almost as stunned by the shooting as Castile’s family.
Sgt. Jon Mangseth, interim chief, said the shooting was the first he could remember in the department’s history.
“We haven’t had an officer-involved shooting in 30 years or more. I’d have to go back in the history books, to tell you the truth,” he said during a press briefing at the crime scene. “It’s shocking. It’s not something that occurs in this area often.”
Mangseth said details of the shooting were still unclear.
“As this unfolds we will release the information as we learn it, and we will address concerns as we are made aware of them,” he said, adding he had yet to see the Facebook video, which he had only learned about from members of the media. “As we learn more information we will release that in a press release.”
Mangseth said he believed the officer involved in the shooting had “in excess of five years” on the force.
The interim chief did not add any more details during a second press conference early Thursday morning, except to say that the driver had died and that a gun had been recovered from the scene.
The video startled police reform advocates across the nation, who expressed a mixture of frustration and fatigue.
“Philando Castile should be alive today,” DeRay Mckesson, a prominent member of the Black Lives Matter movement who worked in nearby Minneapolis, wrote in a text message early Thursday morning.
“I don’t know what else to say,” Mckesson said of the video. “He should be alive today. He is not alive because a police officer murdered him in cold blood.”
Castile is at least the 506th person shot and killed by police so far in 2016, according to a Washington Post database that tracks such shootings.
He is one of 123 black Americans shot and killed by police so far in 2016, according to the database. About 10 percent of the black Americans shot and killed were unarmed at the time of the shooting, while about 61 percent were armed with a gun.
Castile’s death came 234 days after two police officers in nearby Minneapolis fatally shot Jamar Clark, an unarmed 24-year-old black man whose death sparked fierce protests in the city.
A county prosecutor said in March that the two officers involved would not face criminal charges because they believed Clark was trying to grab one of their guns, and the Justice Department has since said that those officers won’t face federal civil rights charges, either.
Clark was one of 990 people shot and killed by on-duty police officers during 2015, according to The Post’s database documenting police shootings. He was one of 12 people fatally shot by officers in Minnesota last year.
A review by the Minneapolis Star Tribune conducted last year found that since 2000, at least 143 people have been killed by police in Minnesota and no officers have been charged in any of these deaths.
Wednesday’s shooting occurred in a middle-class neighborhood of wood-and-stucco homes with generous yards next to the site of the Minnesota State Fair and near the University of Minnesota’s agricultural college. A busy intersection nearby is home to restaurants popular to residents of Falcon Heights and the neighboring suburb of Roseville.
It’s a desired location for homeowners because of the close proximity to both Minneapolis and St. Paul.
The video begins in jarring fashion, with Castile covered in blood, staring toward the car ceiling.
“Stay with me,” Reynolds pleads.
“We got pulled over for a busted taillight in the back,” she explains to the camera as the officer can be seen aiming his handgun at the dying driver.
Reynolds continues to film even as a second officer orders her out of the car.
“Where’s my daughter?” Reynolds asks. “You got my daughter?”
An officer can be seen in the distance holding Reynolds’s child.
“Face away from me and walk backwards,” the second officer orders.
He then tells Reynolds to get on her knees. As her daughter cries in the background, handcuffs can be heard tightening around Reynolds’s wrists.
“Why am I being arrested?” she asks.
“Ma’am, you’re just being detained right now until we get this all sorted out, okay?” the second officer responds.
“Wow,” Reynolds says as the camera tilts upwards towards the evening sky. “They threw my phone, Facebook.”
As an ambulance draws nearer, its siren growing louder and then suddenly stopping, Reynolds grows more frantic.
“Please don’t tell me he’s gone,” she screams. “Please Jesus, no. Please no. Please no, don’t let him be gone, Lord.”
Someone, possibly the officer who shot Castile, can be heard cussing in the background.
“He was reaching for his license and registration. You told him to get it sir! You told him,” Reynolds says. “He tried to tell you he was licensed to carry and he was going to take it off. Please don’t tell me boyfriend is gone. He don’t deserve this.”
The screen goes black.
“Please Lord, you know our rights Lord,” Reynolds says, apparently praying.
“You know we are innocent people, Lord. We are innocent people.”
At one point, an officer can be heard talking to Reynolds’s daughter.
“Can you stand right here, sweetie?” a male officer says.
“I’m gonna get my mommy’s purse,” the girl says, her face flashing on screen as she picks up her mother’s still-recording phone.
“Is that your phone?” the male officer asks.
The video then cuts to Reynolds sitting in the back of a squad car.
“Don’t be scared,” she tells her daughter, before addressing the camera.
“My daughter just witnessed this,” she says. “The police just shot him for no apparent reason, no reason at all.”
“It’s okay, Mommy,” the little girl says, as her mother sobs. “It’s okay. I’m right here with you.”
“Y’all please pray for us,” Reynolds says at the end of the video. “I ask everybody on Facebook, everybody that’s watching, everybody that’s tuned in, please pray for us.”
Wednesday’s victim, 32-year-old Philando Castile, died at a Minneapolis hospital, a family member told The Washington Post.
The confrontation’s bloody aftermath was broadcast live on Facebook by a female passenger in the car.
“He killed my boyfriend,” the woman, whose Facebook page named her as Lavish Reynolds, said in the video.
As blood soaked through Castile’s shirt, Reynolds said on camera that Castile was legally licensed to carry a firearm and was reaching for his identification when the officer started to shoot.
“He let the officer know that he had a firearm and he was reaching for his wallet and the officer just shot him in his arm,” she said.
The St. Anthony Police Department confirmed the driver’s death during a brief press conference Thursday morning; but the department did not identify the officer involved in the shooting or the officer’s race.
Castile moaned and appeared to lose consciousness as the officer could be heard in the background shouting expletives in apparent frustration.
“Ma’am, keep your hands where they are,” he shouted at Reynolds. “I told him not to reach for it! I told him to get his hands up.”
“You told him to get his ID, sir, his driver’s license,” Reynolds responded. “Oh my god. Please don’t tell me he’s dead. Please don’t tell me my boyfriend just went like that.”
The incident occurred in Falcon Heights, Minn., a quiet St. Paul suburb that is a few miles from St. Anthony.
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), whose district is about 2 miles from the scene, told CNN that the recent police-involved shooting was not an isolated incident.
“There is a systematic targeting of African Americans and a systematic lack of accountability,” he said.
The Justice Department said Thursday morning that it was “aware of the incident and is assessing the situation.”
Castile’s death follows the fatal police shooting of another black man, Alton Sterling, on Tuesday in Baton Rouge, La.
In both cases, cellphone video footage of the incident or its immediate aftermath quickly circulated on social media, fueling anger and protests over the police officers’ actions.
From her video, Reynolds appears to have begun recording seconds after her boyfriend was shot, just after 9 p.m. local time. (The footage appears to have been flipped when it was uploaded to social media sites, mistakenly suggesting Castile was the passenger in the car when, in fact, he was the driver.)
Castile’s mother, Valerie Castile, told CNN early Thursday morning that she first found out her son had been shot when she heard her daughter, who was watching the video on social media, start to scream.
“I was like, ‘What’s going on? What’s wrong with you?’” she told CNN.
She said she rushed to the scene to see him but was stopped by police.
“I asked them where was my son was at,” she told CNN. “I didn’t want to talk to anyone. I just wanted to know where my son was because I didn’t want my son to die alone.”
She said in the interview Thursday morning that she still had not been allowed to identity her son’s body.
Valerie Castile described her son as a “laid back” and “quiet” man who worked to provide for his family.
“He’s not a gang banger; he’s not a thug,” she told CNN. “He’s very respectable and I know he didn’t antagonize that officer in any way to make him feel like his life was in danger.”
She said she assumes her son did have a firearm with him because “that was something that we always discussed” but that he had a license for it. She said she always taught him to “comply” with law enforcement.
“The key thing in order to try to survive being stopped by the police is to comply,” she told CNN. “Whatever they ask you to do, do it. Don’t say nothing. Just do whatever they want you to do. So what’s the difference in complying and you get killed anyway?
''I made sure my kids understood the difference in being law abiding, and that the police were there to help,” she added. “I never once in my life have thought that my son would actually be killed by the persons that are supposed to protect and serve him.”
Within hours after the incident, a crowd had gathered at the site of the shooting, according to local television stations. When authorities removed Castile’s car, angry protesters tried to block the tow truck, according to reporter Melissa Colorado.
As vehicle was towed away, the protesters chanted “murderer,” reported Fox9’s Ted Haller.
Candles were placed at the site where Castile was shot.
Protesters then gathered outside the Minnesota governor’s mansion, chanting “Philando Castile.”
Castile’s family was stunned by the shooting.
“He’s gone,” Philando’s sister, Allysza Castile, 23, said through tears during a brief interview with The Post early Thursday.
She said her entire family was gathered at the hospital and as of 1 a.m. had yet to be allowed to see Castile.
“They won’t let us see him,” she said, sobbing. “We’ve been here probably an hour, the whole family is here, and they won’t let us see him.”
In the video, Reynolds was seen telling the police that her boyfriend was a “good man” who works for St. Paul Public Schools.
“He doesn’t have no record or anything,” she said. “He’s never been in jail or anything. He’s not a gang member or anything.”
A website for J. J. Hill Montessori Magnet School lists Phil Castile as its cafeteria supervisor.
Clarence Castile, Philando’s uncle, told the Minneopolis Trubune that his nephew had worked in the school’s cafeteria for 12 to 15 years, “cooking for the little kids.” He said his nephew was “a good kid” who grew up in St. Paul. Philando Castile’s facebook page says he attended the University of Minnesota.
Philando’s mother had “broken down” over the death of her only son, the uncle told the Star Tribune.
Police in St. Anthony, a village outside of Minneapolis, seemed almost as stunned by the shooting as Castile’s family.
Sgt. Jon Mangseth, interim chief, said the shooting was the first he could remember in the department’s history.
“We haven’t had an officer-involved shooting in 30 years or more. I’d have to go back in the history books, to tell you the truth,” he said during a press briefing at the crime scene. “It’s shocking. It’s not something that occurs in this area often.”
Mangseth said details of the shooting were still unclear.
“As this unfolds we will release the information as we learn it, and we will address concerns as we are made aware of them,” he said, adding he had yet to see the Facebook video, which he had only learned about from members of the media. “As we learn more information we will release that in a press release.”
Mangseth said he believed the officer involved in the shooting had “in excess of five years” on the force.
The interim chief did not add any more details during a second press conference early Thursday morning, except to say that the driver had died and that a gun had been recovered from the scene.
The video startled police reform advocates across the nation, who expressed a mixture of frustration and fatigue.
“Philando Castile should be alive today,” DeRay Mckesson, a prominent member of the Black Lives Matter movement who worked in nearby Minneapolis, wrote in a text message early Thursday morning.
“I don’t know what else to say,” Mckesson said of the video. “He should be alive today. He is not alive because a police officer murdered him in cold blood.”
Castile is at least the 506th person shot and killed by police so far in 2016, according to a Washington Post database that tracks such shootings.
He is one of 123 black Americans shot and killed by police so far in 2016, according to the database. About 10 percent of the black Americans shot and killed were unarmed at the time of the shooting, while about 61 percent were armed with a gun.
Castile’s death came 234 days after two police officers in nearby Minneapolis fatally shot Jamar Clark, an unarmed 24-year-old black man whose death sparked fierce protests in the city.
A county prosecutor said in March that the two officers involved would not face criminal charges because they believed Clark was trying to grab one of their guns, and the Justice Department has since said that those officers won’t face federal civil rights charges, either.
Clark was one of 990 people shot and killed by on-duty police officers during 2015, according to The Post’s database documenting police shootings. He was one of 12 people fatally shot by officers in Minnesota last year.
A review by the Minneapolis Star Tribune conducted last year found that since 2000, at least 143 people have been killed by police in Minnesota and no officers have been charged in any of these deaths.
Wednesday’s shooting occurred in a middle-class neighborhood of wood-and-stucco homes with generous yards next to the site of the Minnesota State Fair and near the University of Minnesota’s agricultural college. A busy intersection nearby is home to restaurants popular to residents of Falcon Heights and the neighboring suburb of Roseville.
It’s a desired location for homeowners because of the close proximity to both Minneapolis and St. Paul.
The video begins in jarring fashion, with Castile covered in blood, staring toward the car ceiling.
“Stay with me,” Reynolds pleads.
“We got pulled over for a busted taillight in the back,” she explains to the camera as the officer can be seen aiming his handgun at the dying driver.
Reynolds continues to film even as a second officer orders her out of the car.
“Where’s my daughter?” Reynolds asks. “You got my daughter?”
An officer can be seen in the distance holding Reynolds’s child.
“Face away from me and walk backwards,” the second officer orders.
He then tells Reynolds to get on her knees. As her daughter cries in the background, handcuffs can be heard tightening around Reynolds’s wrists.
“Why am I being arrested?” she asks.
“Ma’am, you’re just being detained right now until we get this all sorted out, okay?” the second officer responds.
“Wow,” Reynolds says as the camera tilts upwards towards the evening sky. “They threw my phone, Facebook.”
As an ambulance draws nearer, its siren growing louder and then suddenly stopping, Reynolds grows more frantic.
“Please don’t tell me he’s gone,” she screams. “Please Jesus, no. Please no. Please no, don’t let him be gone, Lord.”
Someone, possibly the officer who shot Castile, can be heard cussing in the background.
“He was reaching for his license and registration. You told him to get it sir! You told him,” Reynolds says. “He tried to tell you he was licensed to carry and he was going to take it off. Please don’t tell me boyfriend is gone. He don’t deserve this.”
The screen goes black.
“Please Lord, you know our rights Lord,” Reynolds says, apparently praying.
“You know we are innocent people, Lord. We are innocent people.”
At one point, an officer can be heard talking to Reynolds’s daughter.
“Can you stand right here, sweetie?” a male officer says.
“I’m gonna get my mommy’s purse,” the girl says, her face flashing on screen as she picks up her mother’s still-recording phone.
“Is that your phone?” the male officer asks.
The video then cuts to Reynolds sitting in the back of a squad car.
“Don’t be scared,” she tells her daughter, before addressing the camera.
“My daughter just witnessed this,” she says. “The police just shot him for no apparent reason, no reason at all.”
“It’s okay, Mommy,” the little girl says, as her mother sobs. “It’s okay. I’m right here with you.”
“Y’all please pray for us,” Reynolds says at the end of the video. “I ask everybody on Facebook, everybody that’s watching, everybody that’s tuned in, please pray for us.”
If you're not arrogant, don't have control issues, don't have low self esteem, and wasn't picked on in school & now looking for revenge while while wearing a badge, then you wouldn't fit the requirements for being a cop these days anyhow...
What I don't understand - if I'm that scared that my life is in grave danger - my instinct is to retreat and take cover - if I sense there is a problem - I would give orders from my cars speaker - throw the gun out - hands up - and wait for help - I wouldn't buck someone down and ask questions after - not saying the cop did not accidentally panic because the video does not show prior to the shooting - but I know one thing for certain - no one in America gets pulled over for a broken tail light and ends up in a box two days later - it don't work like that - there better be a lot more going on here
One thing about black people.....They want everything on Video.....Seems that way to me.
Riots will break out again this summer.......
And that's what it's going to come down to. If the guy has all the paperwork, it would suggest that his side of the story is the believable side.
