Woman Live-Streams Video after Police Shot Boyfriend
Video Live Streamed over Facebook while inside a car with a woman and her child, shows the moments after a cop shot her unarmed boyfriend 4 times, killing him
Video released shows the moment when officer Jeronimo Yanez stopped Philando Castile for a broken tail light in Minnesota last July. Yanes was acquitted last week. During the trial, Yanez said he feared for his life, and thought Castile was pulling out a gun he was licensed to carry. Mireya Villarreal has more.
The extraordinary footage begins calmly with Reynolds narrating what happened as she trains the camera on Castile, whom she describes as her boyfriend, and on at least one officer who is seen pointing a gun through the driver’s side window.
“Please, officer, don’t tell me that you just did this to him,” she says. “You shot four bullets into him, sir. He was just getting his license and registration, sir.”
Reynolds can also be heard saying on video that the officer “asked him for license and registration. He told him that it was in his wallet but he had a pistol on him because he is licensed to carry. The officer said, ‘Don’t move.’ As he was putting his hands back up, the officer shot him in the arm four or five times.” Jul 7, 2016
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The Minnesota police officer who shot Philando Castile was cleared of manslaughter
The Minnesota police officer who drew widespread protests after he shot and killed Philando Castile has been found not guilty after being charged with second-degree manslaughter. After 27 hours of deliberation, the jury found St. Anthony, Minnesota, police officer Jeronimo Yanez not guilty for manslaughter, as well as two counts of dangerous discharge of a firearm, according to the Star Tribune.
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