Authorities Release Dashcam Video From Shooting Of Philando Castile
Photo courtesy of YouTube.
Photo courtesy of YouTube.
"Hello, sir...How are you?"
These were the words St. Anthony, Minnesota police officer Jeronimo Yanez said to Philando Castile on the evening of July 6, 2016. Forty seconds later, Philando was bleeding to death in his 1997 Oldsmobile.
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How swiftly things turned violent was the main thing we learned yesterday after the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension made the dashcam footage of the Castile shooting public.
Here is the conversation that occurred before Castile started shooting:
Castile: Sir, I have to tell you I do have a ...Yanez: OK.
Castile: ... firearm on me.
Yanez: OK
Castile: I (inaudible)
Yanez: Don't reach for it then.
Castile: I'm, I, I was reaching for ...
Yanez: Don't pull it out.
Castile: I'm not pulling it out.
Reynolds: He's not.
Yanez: Don't pull it out..
From there Yanez pulled out his gun and left off a number of shots directly into the car. A couple of seconds after the shooting, a young girl, who is Reynolds' daughter, is seen getting out of the car and being picked up by another police officer on the scene.
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The dashcam video is around 10 minutes long. This footage overlaps with what we saw last year, when Diamond Reynolds started filming for Facebook Live as Castile was dying.
This was one of the pieces of evidence used in the trial. And yet, last week Yanez was found not guilty on all counts.
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SOURCE: MPRNews
