KARE11 TV in Minnesota has published what may be police dispatch audio showing that Philando Castile was stopped because the police officer who shot him thought he looked like an armed robbery suspect because of “the wide set nose.”
You can listen to the audio above or here. KARE cautions that the TV station received the audio from a viewer and has not been able to verify the dispatch audio with the St. Anthony Village Police Department. However, the station has now reported that Tom Kelly, the lawyer representing St. Anthony Police Officer Jeronimo Yanez, has confirmed details included in the audio.
The audio aired by the TV station starts with a male voice, purported to be the officer, saying:
“I’m going to stop a car. I’m going to check IDs. I have reason to pull it over.”
“The two occupants just look like people that were involved in a robbery,” the man in the audio adds. “The driver looks more like one of our suspects, just ‘cause of the wide set nose.”
Clarence Castile, Castile’s uncle, told KARE 11 the audio shows the stop was “racial profiling.” He told the TV station: “I just thought it was kind of insane to pull somebody over saying they matched a robbery suspect by having flared nostrils. It is kind of hard to see flared nostrils from a car.”
The officer involved in the shooting has been placed on administrative leave. Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton told the Washington Post: I think all of us in Minnesota are forced to confront that this kind of racism exists. Nobody should be shot and killed in Minnesota for a taillight being out of function. (Facebook)
Heavy also reached out to a police spokesperson in an attempt to verify the audio (with no response) as well as the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, which is investigating the Castile shooting. Jill Oliveira, BCA spokeswoman, told Heavy, when asked if the audio was authentic: “Regarding the audio you referenced… I don’t have information to provide to you about it. The BCA did not release it.” Asked for a copy of the dispatch audio in the case, she wrote, “Data from an ongoing investigation does not become public under Minnesota law until the investigation concludes.”
Kelly told KARE 11 that Castile wasn’t a robbery suspect but that: “They had a reasonable suspicion he may match the description of the suspect in the earlier robbery.”
Previously, Castile’s girlfriend, Lavish Reynolds, had said the couple’s car was stopped because of a broken taillight; she said the taillight wasn’t really broken. Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton repeated the taillight claim when he said, “No one should be shot and killed in Minnesota…for a taillight” and said he thought Castile’s race was a factor in his death.
After Castile was shot by a police officer (identified as Jeronimo Yanez), Reynolds streamed the immediate aftermath of the shooting on Facebook Live.
Hundreds of thousands of viewers have watched the disturbing video, which shows Castile bleeding in the front seat as the officer points a gun through the window, and Reynolds narrates. Castile died a short time later; his death, and that of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, sparked protests around the country and outside the governor’s mansion in Minnesota and may have motivated the Dallas police shooter. Reynolds told KARE 11 she and Castile did not match the description of the robbery suspects in the audio.
KARE 11 says there was a Lauderdale gas station robbery in the area on July 2. The press release from that robbery, which Heavy obtained through the Minnesota Crime Alert Network, describes the suspects as two men with dreadlocks and says they robbed a gas station with handguns. Kelly confirmed to KARE 11 that this was the robbery in question. See PHOTOS of the gas station armed robbery suspects here.
Kelly, the attorney for Officer Yanez told the Associated Press that Yanez, who is Latino, was reacting to the gun Castile had, not his race, USA Today said. Kelly, a Minneapolis attorney, said the officer was reacting to “the presence of that gun and the display of that gun,” according to USA Today, when he shot Castile. He also told KARE 11 that a brake light was out on the car and that “direct commands” were given.
A previous police statement said Castile had a gun; on the Facebook Live video, his girlfriend, Lavish Reynolds, says he told the officer he was armed and that Castile had a permit to carry a gun. The Minneapolis Star Tribune says it has verified that Castile did have a permit, through a source.
In this disturbing frame from the Facebook Live video, Philando Castile lies bleeding in the seat of his car. The officer was still pointing the firearm in his direction. Meanwhile, his girlfriend, Lavish Reynolds, narrates what’s happening. (Facebook/Lavish Reynolds)
KARE 11 says it was able to match the license plate mentioned in the audio to Castile’s car.
The audio also appears to possibly capture the first traffic report of the shooting:
The man purported to be the officer says: “Shots fired Larpenteur and Fry.” (Note: That’s the same address for the shooting given by police in a statement.)
Dispatcher: “Copy you just heard it? … You just heard the shots fired?”
Officer: (screaming) “Code 3! Shots fired.”
Dispatcher: “Copy shots fired Larpenteur and Fry. Do you need medics?”
Officer: “Code 3!”
Dispatcher: “Copy. Medics — code 3 to Larpenteur and Fry.”
Officer: “One adult female taken into custody. Driver at gunpoint.”
Castile, a school cafeteria worker beloved in the school community, had only a minor criminal record with almost entirely traffic matters and nothing remotely as serious as armed robbery. He had been stopped many times by officers in the past, almost entirely for traffic violations. Racial profiling by police has been an issue of concern in Minnesota, even prompting the Legislature to undertake an extensive study that 65 police departments participated in.
Here is the original Facebook Live video recorded by Reynolds:
As for the gun permit, the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Department Tweeted that Castile did not apply for a permit to carry a gun in Ramsey County but cautioned he might have received one in another county. Minneapolis/St. Paul is in Ramsey County. However, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that “Philando Castile had a valid permit to carry a gun when he was shot and killed by a St. Anthony police officer, a source confirmed to the Star Tribune Friday.” The newspaper said the permit was issued to Castile when he lived in Robbinsdale, MN, which is in Hennepin County.
Gun permit applications are private in Minnesota:
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July 12, 2016 11:15 pm
Pretty one sided “reporting” nothing on the Alphabet of Propaganda, NBC CBS ABC CNN AP PBS NPR or msnbc or the Megaphone of the Left, the New York Times about any armed robbers suspicion of dead guy and the female passenger. But on the right-wing Internet it’s all over the place…. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Shocker. Why was everyone believing diamond like she spoke the gospel? Justified shoot
And what information anywhere gives you the idea that this was a justified shooting. Let a cop shoot you for admitting that you are carrying and not give you the chance to explain that you are licensed and then see if you are singing the same tune.
Nobody knows if he said that he was carrying or not. If he said he was carrying, it was unjustified, but if he didn’t say he was carrying, then it is completely justified. The girlfriend said that he said he was carrying with a license, but she’s not very reliable.
What makes this justified? Because the said he didnt apply for a ccw through their office? At the time it was unknown and he should have been alive when this story came out. You are part of this ignorance in the united states i hope the same never happens to your family
What are the rules of engagement and when did they change? Police have changed tactics from seeing a fire arm pointed at you for a justified shooting to shoot when ever you are scared for you life under any circumstance. Cameras all over the country have brought to light the unjustified killing of many people. Hey if you scared of black people don’t be a police officer stay at home and protect your own family because most likely will bring unjustified harm to the public.
WHY WAS HE KILLED??? THIS IS WHY WE CALL THEM POLICE PIGS… DIRTY LOW DOWN PIGS!!!!
So if someone shoots an innocent black man, all members of that person’s group are now labeled pigs? You do know the group responsible for most black deaths, right?
He was killed because when he was pulled over he went for his gun as he was a suspect in an armed robbery.
Wrong. He told them he had a gun and they asked for his license. He went for his license. Get your facts straight.
We do not know if what the woman said is true, so don’t take the woman’s word as absolute truth. Besides, what kind of woman films her boyfriends death instead of helping him? Don’t trust her and for good reason.
Couldn’t help him. She had a gun pointed at her by the same cop telling her not to move. Duh!
She didn’t have any problem filming for Facebook though. If my husband was next to me bleeding and possibly dying I would not be filming.Also, I would be showing lots of emotion.
In what way was she supposed to help him after he’d been shot at least four times, with a gun pointed at her while being told don’t move and keep her hands visible?
Know what kind of woman films an incedent like this, a smart one. She proved the cop was clearly out of control. Just listen to him saying the F word over and over. He cant control himself. This is a sad and pathetic situation. When will cops learn control in these situations or just dont be a cop if you cant control your emotions. Why do black people always get killed while whites walk away. This shit is pissing me off now.
Who trys to move there boyfriend or anybody for that matter after the police has shot him with his gun still aimed at him….the video was for her protection not to glorify it….then u wonder why we call most of u pigs….u can’t c the truth…u too busy eatn shit.
she had a gun pointed at her and her daughter was in the car!
Get your facts straight! The officer asked him for his license and registration (per the lady whether it’s true or not), but when he reach in his back pocket, the officer told him NOT TO DO IT… YET HE DID…therefore HE SHOT HIM. He thought he looked like an individual that was involved in an armed robbery (the reason for the stop). Tell me if you weren’t a cop and thought that, you wouldn’t have been nervous, too!
At one point she said that he “told the officer he was getting” and latter she said the “officer told him to get”, a small change buts world of difference. Everyone who is stopped need to above all else, listen and do what they are instructed to do. By law, the police officer is in charge and should not, and will not follow your instruction. Listen, understand, and obey, if you do not understand DON’T MOVE…SAY I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU WANT ME TO DO. the officer will attempt to clarify his instructions,
^This. In the background of Ms.Reynolds’ video, around the 3:40 mark, this is what I hear: “[..]his wallet, his license and registration. You told him to get it, sir. You told him. He tried to tell you that he was licensed to carry. He was going to take it off.[..]” He was going to take what off? If he touched his weapon without explicitly instructed to, while being an armed robbery suspect, the officer was certainly on guard. Whether his repose was justified in the moment, I don’t know… It’s a goddamn tragedy all around.
you don’t know he told them that. And if he did tell him the protocol would have been for the officer to have him get out of the car, disarm him and then get his ID
So You Think You Know The Facts Do You!
What facts? Like we should believe any eyewitness after the the death of Michael Brown, huh? His buddy claimed he had his hands up and said, “hands up don’t shoot,” that went viral and was proven to be a complete lie even after Obama and Holder stuck the Justice Department on the entire Ferguson Police Department only to find that the only reliable witnesses were the African Americans that were right in the vicinity and no legal or emotional ties to Mr. Brown. She may very well be telling the truth but I’m so sick of the first narrative being the ONLY narrative and it also just happens to be the one that gets black people all up in arms the most. They are given the idea that all police are out to “lynch” black people when in all reality there are only 1% of all African American death nationwide are the result of non-justified killings. There is race baiting going on with BLM, Obama, Hillary, the Congressional Black Caucus, the NAACP, etc., etc. and one man is funding it all. Do more African Americans get stopped by police? You betcha they do and for one big and very important reason that is never mentioned by the media; African American males commit more than 85% of all crime nationwide yet they comprise of less than 10% of our entire population. So if you don’t believe that police officers should be given a chance for due process and Iif you don’t acknowledge a very HUGE problem with crime in the African American community, we’re never going to get anywhere close to making things better for them. NEVER!
Hope u don’t look as stupid as u sound….black people commit 85% of all crimes…..some of u can’t get any dumber
You are truly an idiot! Wow!
No, you get your facts straight. Nobody knows exactly what happened until they investigate and figure it all out. Just because his girlfriend said he told the Officer he had a gun doesn’t make it true. Let’s wait until there
He was not a suspect in an armed robbery. The police mistook him for someone who WAS a suspect based on the appearance of his nose. The police asked for his license and registration and he admittingly told the police that he had a gun. He went to reach for his licence, as he was asked to do, and the police shot him four times. Where do you get your information and what have you been reading and viewing that says otherwise?
Stupid ass he was killed because the police officer made a terrible judgment and took a innocent man life in front of his family who will have to incounter that memory for the rest of there lives. Im sure that they won’t get the justice they deserve. ALL LIVES MATTER..my prayers or with the family.
He was killed because he was a Black man.
what evidence do you have of this? Don’t you think if Jeronimo Yanez, a Latino and fellow minority, would have some sort of evidence of racist behavior in the past? Racists are generally not intelligent and they always make their racist opinions known, either in public or private. Look at the dallas shooter or dylan roof….there was a ton of evidence of them being racist in the past. Is it possible the officer simply messed up in the moment and race had nothing to do with it?
THE LORD GOD, MAKER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH SAYS HE WILL REPAY.. kING jAMES vERSION
Oh Lord, be merciful and return this country to slavery, place these negroes back into filth that they look like.
there is something seriously wrong with you. you are an embarrassment to the human race. I look forward to the day when your kind are extinct.
In your dreams Johnny, open your eyes, we’re reuniting slowly but surely, people in general are tired of people with your mentality. We serve the same god, see you on the other side someday, to God be the glory, you need some anointing🙌
johnny — you are the problem.
Oh, won’t you be surprised on judgement day when you see that Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ looks more like the negroes, that you want placed back in slavery and filth, than he looks like you. I hope I’m there to witness that blessed occasion.
Flush yourself. Don’t worry, we’ll put the seat back down for ya.
You make me sick, Johnny
Well, I’ve read a lot of comments but your reply, Johnny, just shook me to the core. How is it that in this century you have this hate for black people. Black people look beautiful to me. The good Lord blessed them with their skin. Your hate is devil driven. Your greed for superiority over another race resulting in domination and low cost labor, and to fill your pocketbook and inflate your ego is the joy of satan.
Johnny your a Cop right?
Clearly we must be better then you. Only the intimidated say such unintelligent things. All that slave ownership didn’t get you or your family closer to a book huh? Dumb as Hell!
Wow! Praying for you brother! You really need to hear from GOD!
Johnny what city do you live hugh. You need to get a taste of what fighting for freedom will bring first.
🐒
It sounds like he disobeyed instructions to not move and went for the gun. Never put your hands in your pockets unless a cop directs you, especially if you tell the cop that you have a gun on you.
There will always be someone that finds any and every excuse to justify a murder by the police. The cop asked him for his license and registration dumb ass. He even told the cop which pocket the gun was in and the same for the wallet. It’s always some racist Internet thug that sits behind their computer screen and talk shit.
Racist!!!
I am going to clear this up I on the force a black woman and so is my best friend. When we were pulled over in Los Angeles she had her duty weapon on her. The white officer walked up to the window asked for license and registration (it was pitch dark at night) she tells him “officer I have my duty weapon on me” while reaching for her ID. We are alive and well today to tell the story. God is control and I bind any hatred. Nobody talks about the racism blacks face in the department out of 470,000 officers only 12% are black. If the police departments can’t respect blacks on the job how can they respect them on the street? Food for thought
I call bs. He pulled him over b/c who looked like a robbery suspect due to his “wide nose” or for a broken taillight. Which one, now? Come on, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to read read between the lines. Furthermire, whether he had a permit or not, it still doesn’t justify the shooting.
according to other reports that I’ve read he was told by the Officer to put his hands on the dash.
Regardless to that fact he didn’t resist and he was upfront, the officer didn’t have a right to shoot and kill. Stop making excuses for the officer, he murdered Castile cold blooded.
While I admit, most of these are ridiculous, this one “looks” to be genuine. I do know they were pretty much Garbage, smoking dope with kids in the car etc. but if it played out as she said, then.. well.. The cop deserves any sentence he may get.
Where was it reported about them smoking dope?!!🙅🙅
It’s on her videos check out diamonds FB videos not only is she ignoring her daughter (the one who says I’m right here mama) but they are smoking their weed while mom video tapes herself smoking dancing playing with her hair and giving that child a contact buzz. Now that’s not a reason to kill the boyfriend but it’s the truth and she put it out there on public display
People are making all these judgements and saying they know what happened because his girlfriend was telling her side of the story in the video. Does that make what she says fact? Hell no. We do not know what was actually said between the officer and Castile or what happened. I would make it sound like my loved one did nothing wrong also if they were in that situation, even if they did make a mistake. I’m not saying Castile made a mistake because I do not know (unfortunately 90% of the internet thinks they do know when they really do not). However, I do know (and I don’t even own a gun) that if you have a gun and you tell the officer you have a gun, you do everything possible to make sure it doesn’t look like you’re reaching for your gun, even if you are reaching for your wallet. You let the officer disarm you before making any movements. How would you feel if I told you I had a gun, then I told you I was reaching for my wallet in a spot that very well could have been where my gun is? I couldn’t possibly lie to you right? Of course I could and that is why an officer must disarm you before you make any movements with a gun in your possession. So maybe there is a bigger issue than just cops overreacting in these situations. Maybe this is a problem with our gun control in the states. You need to know more than just your rights for carrying a gun, but also your responsibilities and one of those is to notify an officer and allow him to disarm you before making any movements. We honestly won’t know if this is the case unless further evidence is released of when the confrontation and shooting actually occurred. To judge now is premature and excessive. Ya’ll are just looking for a reason to be angry at this point.
You don’t make sense, it’s obvious the cop that shot him knew he was wrong and his backup knew he was wrong. Regardless to the fact, he didn’t deserve to be dead. Right is right, wrong is wrong.
It definitely was not obvious the cop knew he was wrong. Everyone who wants to blame the cop for overreating when they didn’t see what actually happened may THINK that his reaction was him showing that he did wrong, but that’s far from fact. I would be swearing too if I was the cop, even if the shooting is definitely justifiable. Cops are under so much scrutiny these days that it’s like people think they should just never fire even if they feel they are actually in danger. You don’t think he knows how much bullshit he is going to have to deal with because of this, especially when she is obviously recording? They know how many death threats all other officers in that position have received and how much of a pain the whole trial is going to be even if they acted properly. You would definitely be swearing too. I guarantee he wasn’t going out that day and saying to himself “I’m going to kill an innocent black man today because I can.” He likely thought Castile could be the armed robbery suspect they were looking for (he didn’t know but he could be) and that’s alert #1. Then he hears him say he has a gun which is alert #2 and before being disarmed, Castile supposedly reaches for his wallet, which is alert #3. I don’t know what kind of drugs you may be on that could make you not be fearful in such a situation, but any normal person would. You don’t do anything after telling a cop you have a gun, that’s just obvious. He could be reaching for the gun for all the officer knows. It could be a completely innocent mistake and it is very very unfortunate if so, but a cop can’t let his guard down because of someone else’s mistake. Having a gun is a privilege and you must know your responsibilities if you choose to own and carry one, whether you’re a good or bad guy. The cop has no idea if you’re a good guy when he has never met you before. Either way, it is very tragic for his family, especially if he was just trying to do the right thing,, but there is not nearly enough evidence to show that the cop wasn’t justified and that Castile definitely didn’t make a mistake. To act like there is enough evidence is ignorant and wrong and shows how bad everyone WANTS to hate the cops, whether or not they should. Either way, RIP and condolences to the family and friends.
I must say this if you have a gun and your gonna kill a police officer why in the hell would you tell the cop hey I do have a gun and a permit!! You wouldn’t and neither would Castile because this was unfortunately not the case. A scared officer with a gun is the result if an innocent young man. So please people stop with all this he was reaching for his gun he was doing as the officer told him so. Its boils down to right from wrong with that being said it was WRONG!!!!!!!!
A properly trained gun owner (necessary to get a ccw permit) also would not tell an officer he had a gun and then reach anywhere near his pants. Lets just say I was Castile and you were the cop, just because I told you I have a weapon, you feel safe about me reaching into my pants? Not knowing where my gun is and thinking I could be a criminal, you feel safe enough to stand there and hope I’m reaching for my wallet and not the gun I just told you I have that can kill you. Of course you wouldn’t and any responsible gun owner would know this also. You let the officer disarm you before ever making any moves, especially to somewhere you could be hiding the weapon. Not to mention we have absolutely ZERO proof of what actually happened. Everyone is taking this ladies word for everything and she has earned no credibility. A video of a man bleeding while some chick says her side of the story means absolutely nothing. She even called the officer Asian. Give me a break. Maybe if she focused more on what was happening rather than trying to record it all, she would have seen what really happened. Not to mention she admitted to having drugs in the car at the time (a big no no when carrying a weapon, even if it is just some grass). Also having recorded herself and Castile smoking more of it just days earlier with the young girl in the car with them. Any reasonable person could not possibly come to a conclusion on what happened based on 0 evidence and a narrative from such a person. That’s just ridiculous. I won’t say the shooting was justified because I don’t know, but to say that it was not justified at this point is extremely wrong and uneducated. More evidence is needed for someone to be prosecuted and called a criminal.
Yes, you are instructed to let the officer know, it’s for the officer safety. #2 if you are pulling over a possible robbery suspect you do not go up to the car, you do what is called a felony stop where all individuals get out of the car, walk backwards to towards the officers voice and follow instructions to get on the ground. That’s how it’s supposed to be done. That way everyone can see what may or may not be happening. Bottom line the officer lacked training, scared, officers have a use of force continuum deadly force is the last thing why are officers grabbing their guns? Same thing in Arlington Texas the officer was not indicted checkout that case this was last year. God bless everyone, we need a common ground not dispute how can we come together?
Look at the vidieo… His gun is in his lap….pointed in the direction of the officer. you will see…. Then what are you going to say?
why do people keep saying he’s reaching for a gun or wallet or not to do so when he was told to do so? that seems to be forgotten a lot. I say the cop since it is coming out that they may be robbery suspects freaked out. Even the audio shows how he’s using a flared nose as reason to pull them over. To me I don’t think this poor guy lives not matter what. cops already hopped up on adrenaline while pulling them over thinking armed robber. More likely he’s wetting his pants already and this guy wasn’t going to get to say anything no matter what. Mistaken Identity killed this guy.
We all should be scared to death because anyone could be mistaken for a armed robbery then and get killed in the most seemingly benign turns deadly.
Nobody knows what he was told and in what order. We have no evidence of the police telling him to give them his ID, especially after he admitted to having a weapon. We literally only have a narrative by someone who is distraught from her bf being shot, one who called the cop that shot him Asian when he was in fact Latino. A narrative by someone who admitted to having drugs in the car with the weapon. Someone who smoked in the car with Castile and the 4 year old in the back seat just days earlier while recording like an idiot. I take facts to decide judgement, not opinions from an extremely biased source and unfortunately there are little to no facts that can point to whether the shooting was justified at this point. For all we know, Castile said he had a gun, officer told him to keep his hands out and on the steering wheel and he reached towards his pants instead and was shot. For all we know, Castile told them he had a gun, they still asked for ID and they shot him anyways. Both could be possible, but we have no idea what the actual TRUTH is. However everyone seems to think they can condemn the cop and call him guilty already when they don’t know shit. It’s annoying as —- how ignorant everyone is to judgement based on actual facts and not opinions. We honestly don’t know what killed this guy. We only know he had a gun and ended up dead for some reason, but whether it was his fault or the cops is absolutely unknown. If you can give actual proof of the contrary based on what is actually released to the public at this time, I’ll go to the next protest myself.
You have apparently decided to be the judge and jury. Don’t waste your time arguing with this know-it-all. He obviously was there and witnessed the whole thing. I’ll wait for the facts. Dash cam video, etc.
I understand where you are coming from that no one knows EXACTLY what happened, but it still seems that you are still trying to justify this cop killing this dude. If I had to choose living or dying, I would rather die than shoot someone only to find out that the person is innocent. The cop overreacted based on the notion that Philando COULD be the robbery suspect. With that preconceived notion Philando COULD have moved wrong and the cop most likely would have fired. You never heard him deny what Diamond said he told Philando. As a matter of fact after she told him what he said, that’s when he started swearing. Also, why keep bringing up the fact that they were smoking marijuana in the car a couple of days earlier, what does that have to do with this man being killed AND I’m front of his child, what if one of those bullets had hit the child. If he was as afraid as you make him out to be, that could have been a real possibility, that was negligent on his part. The weed they were smoking in the car with the child is certainly a whole lot less dangerous than that cop shooting bullets in the car.
You made a big point because we dont no but if you watch the video and pay attention to what the officer is saying and expressing you clearly can see he made a terrible mistake. These same type of scenario cases happen everyday with different races but have different outcomes. When a life is taken you can’t get that back and being taken for no reason will have a community angry..
Listen, its terrible. It is. It should not have happened, we can’t bring him back, people are hurting from it. That said, it is not an opportunity to blame all of your lack of enthusiasm voer the years that led you to being poor and living in the projects. No one is trying to kill black people on purpose like is being said, it’s just an opportunist grab move. Once again, who did the protestors in Texas run to when the shots rang out? The cops. NO one knew where it was coming from at the time but the automatic assumption was the cops will helps so they can’t think cops are out to kill them.
So just like there’s good and bad it applies to the cops as well because not all of them are living up to the oath they pledge and im speaking facts…
Why do they keep saying Castile was driving? And, specifically, the policeman on the tape says the driver had a wide nose. The driver wasn’t Castile, right? It was his girlfriend. I didn’t understand why the cop went to the passenger side window instead of going to the driver? The whole thing makes no sense.
Re-watch it. The steering wheel is clearly in front of Castile. The camera is just flipped making it look opposite.
the only answer to racism is the extinction of whites aka crackers!!!!!
Personally, I prefer a community where people treat each other with respect, regardless of race.
If you want to live where there are no whites, MOVE OUT. You can even do that today! Nobody’s stopping you.
black kkk? thats a contradiction….should’ve just said black panthers, either way you’re racist scum.
This time the officer is obviously in the wrong.
Proof, please?
The fact that Philando was not the robbery suspect is the proof. Or do you just condone people going up to cars, all Willy nilly, shooting people based on preconceived notions? The report admits that Philando has a record but only in regards to traffic incidences. So, out of all those times, this is the one time he would have chosen to shoot for being pulled over for a broken tail light? Are you sure you’re not on something that you can’t see how wrong this is. Better yet, what if this would have been YOUR family member. Think. Would you still be singing the same tune?
It doesn’t matter if he was a robbery suspect, if he had traffic citations and such. What matters is what happened in those minutes before she started recording. How he told the cop he had a weapon, how he listened to commands after telling them that, if he moved when he wasn’t supposed to. Maybe he did everything right and the cop just shot him anyways, in which case, yes, the cop needs to go down. But you’re an idiot if you think you can come to that conclusion based on the video after the actual incident occurred. He could have been told not to move after telling the cop he has a weapon and then he moved and the cop thought he was going for his gun. It doesn’t matter if you weren’t going for your gun, if you tell a cop you have one and he tells you not to move, you better not move or you know the consequences. Carrying a gun may be a right, but if you can’t be responsible and extra cautious when carrying and in the presence of an officer, then you should not be carrying. As I’ve said this whole time, I’m not saying Castile necessarily did anything wrong or that the cop was in the right, but you have absolutely 0 physical evidence that the shooting was not justified and that Castile did everything he was supposed to when strapped with a weapon. If it was my family member, I would want all the facts. I don’t want anyone to have to go down for a crime they didn’t commit. One possibly innocent life has already been wasted, another possibly innocent life does not have to be wasted until determined he was not innocent based on actual facts. If you can’t see that there are no facts at this time that show the officer is guilty, then for everyones sake, I hope you never end up on a jury. I know you wouldn’t want to be convicted of a crime without absolute facts and evidence showing you did wrong.
Sir, you are correct in making (and re-making) your point about rushing to judgment on this. No matter how anybody conjecture, the facts need to be determined. Hopefully we can all be privy to more verified facts rather than loud conjecturing.
We have to be smart here and not take the words of the girlfriend as absolute truth.
Correct me if I am wrong, but don’t most police departments have camera’s mounted to the front of their cars to read license plates. I know the highway patrol in Arkansas and Texas have them. I see them looking at their computer all of the time at the information the camera is sending them. And with that information in hand they know who the vehicle is registered to, if they have a record, what is on their record, and if they have a warrant out or not. I’m pretty sure it also tells them if the registered owner is a CCW license holder and shows their picture. I would think that with that info in hand the officer would have a good idea of who he is dealing with, assuming the person is driving their own car. Also, when an officer approaches a car, I’m sure there is a certain amount of uncertainty, but if the person immediately tells you that they are a CCW holder and are carrying, then they aren’t trying to hide anything from the officer. I have been stopped 3 times in the past 3 years for speeding, and given a warning. Those 3 times the officers seemed very relaxed and very nice, but I always put my hands in plain site, roll down all of the windows, and make sure that they can see me as clearly as possible. 2 of these officers were white and 1 was black, and they were very professional. I have been profiled a few times as a young person (if you really want to hear about it then let me know), but I am white. I really don’t know what it is like to be stopped for DWB. Just from the information we have so far, this does not seem to be a justified shooting. I hope I am wrong (nobody deserves this just for driving a car or for being a certain race). I would like to know exactly what happened before the video started recording. Statistics show that there are more white men shot by police officers than black men, but that really doesn’t matter. Attention has been brought to the subject, and we all need to come together instead of making the divide even greater. Most of the people in the BLM movement just want the shootings to stop, but there are those that just want revenge, to cause trouble, and unfortunately those are the ones that are getting the attention. BLM has brought attention to a real problem in America, but every time an officer shoots a black man that does not make it unjustified. And BLM protest everyone of them whether it is justified or not. Now black groups are calling for the killing of white cops (and with the Dallas cop killings) it is only going to get worse. The police officer are more nervous now than ever before. They’re going to be on edge all of the time, and I think that more people are going to get killed.
This pathetic excuse for a Law Enforcement Officer has not only needlessly taken a young mans life he has also left Minnesota taxpayers liable to foot the bill for the inevitable multimillion $ lawsuit, Cops should be made to source and pay for there liability insurance or better still pay the awards out of police pension funds.
IM SORRY THIS LOOKS FAKE.. SHE SAID HE WAS DEAD WHEN HE WAS STILL MOVING….SHE WAS NOT UPSET THE OFFICIER WAS
This woman is a psychopath and a disgrace to the human race. Look at The video ! NO concern for her boyfriend or her daughter for that matter. This woman is not credible.
I knew this was coming let’s wait for the smear campaign oh he was a thug for multiple traffic violations and weed just wait for it paint the officer in a good light oh he did well in school wait for it this officer will walk and work again
Facts are Facts
FAKE AUDIO DID YOU NOTICE
AUDIO AND VIDEO ARE DIFFERENT!
VIDEO: PHILANDO WAS SITTING IN PASSENGER SEAT. LADY IS IN CUSTODY & the KID?
AUDIO: GUN IS POINTED AT DRIVER & PULLED CASTILE OVER
What a brave woman to tape the whole thing….so very tragic. The cop shouting the F word over and over speaks volumes. This man should not have died.
YOU SICK REPORTER WHY THE CRAP WOULD YOU POST THE AUDIO KNOWING IT WAS NOT VERIFIED> YOU ARE SICK!!!!!!!!!!
“The driver looks more like one of our suspects, just ‘cause of the wide set nose.”
“Wide set nose” eh? (Read… African American)
Well there’s the clincher, that pretty much narrows down the field of possible suspects, doesn’t it?
I suppose they “All Look The Same” so what the hell.
We can at least exclude most of all Caucasians and Micheal Jackson then? (oops, sorry, he’s dead).