In MN, broken tail light gets Philando Castile killed by police -- with 4 year old

[pnwmom]

girl in back seat and girlfriend right next to him. The NAACP tweeted that he was a kitchen worker in St. Paul schools.

According to Castile's girlfriend the police shot him through the window as he was trying to get his ID out -- per their instructions. He informed them that he also had a gun and a legal permit -- and they shot him four times and killed him.

Or course he is black. Even in Minnesota, where only 6% of the population is black . . . this can't just be random. We know it's not. What are we going to do to stop this?

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2016/07/06/police-officer-involved-shooting-in-falcon-heights/

Reynolds, who was in the front passenger seat, says in the video that they were pulled over for a broken tail light. She says police asked Castile, who was driving, for his license and registration.

She says as Castile was reaching for his wallet, he informed officers that he had a firearm in his possession, and a conceal-and-carry permit.

Reynolds says in the video that an officer then shot her boyfriend four times.

The officer in the video at one point screams, “I told him not to reach for it! I told him to get his hand out …”

Reynolds tells the officer, “You told him to get his I.D., sir, his driver’s license.”

She pans the cellphone camera over Castile, who is covered in blood.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-minneapolis-shooting-20160706-snap-story.html

Clarence Castile, Philando’s uncle, said his nephew had worked in the J.J. Hill school 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 and also lived in Minneapolis for a time.

He said Philando’s mother, Valerie Castile, 60, was inside the hospital and had “broken down” over the death of her only son.

He said Castile had left his home about two hours before the shooting occurred. “My nephew was killed by the police” without doing anything wrong, he said.

Castile’s cousin, Antonio Johnson, 31, was also at HCMC. Johnson said Castile graduated with honors from St. Paul Central High School, where he was a straight-A student.

He was “a black individual driving in Falcon Heights who was immediately criminally profiled and he lost his life over it tonight,” Johnson said.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/woman-livestreams-officer-involved-shooting-boyfriend/story?id=40396521

The president of the NAACP Minneapolis chapter also confirmed the name in a tweet early Thursday.

The video, posted Wednesday night on Facebook Live, appeared to show an incident like the one police described. The video showed the woman sitting in a car with Castile whose shirt appeared to be soaked in blood, saying an officer shot her boyfriend.

The St. Anthony Police Department said in a statement early Thursday that at 9 p.m. "a St. Anthony Police Officer effected a traffic stop on Larpenteur and Fry in the City of Falcon Heights, Minnesota. During the stop, shots were fired. One adult male was taken to the hospital. We have been informed that this individual is deceased."

[JustAnotherGen]

1. We have been informed that this Human Being

Was killed in cold blood for following an erratic unfit for duty hysterical police officer's orders.

[pnwmom]

2. That cop certainly sounded unhinged. Is there more info about him?

[Warren DeMontague]

3. Jesus Fuckitty Fuck Fuck.

Fuuuuuuuuuuck.

[pnwmom]

4. That's what the officer said after he shot Castilo four times.

And how about this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027984923

[Warren DeMontague]

5. I don't know where the hell they're getting this "shoot first and ask questions later" crap

but it needs to stop yesterday.

I've already watched the video. It's awful. Simply awful.

[pnwmom]

6. I guess the only thing different today is that cell phone videos

are making this real to white people who have been living in the dark.

Black people, of course, knew all along.

Here's something else.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/30/us/police-videos-race.html?action=click&contentCollection=U.S.&module=RelatedCoverage&region=EndOfArticle&pgtype=article

[Warren DeMontague]

7. Yeah, to be sure.

[Warren DeMontague]

8. Wasn't Comey the one who said that "allowing" people to film cops was preventing them from doing

their jobs?

...It sure doesn't seem to be preventing them from shooting people.

[pnwmom]

9. Yes! I'd forgotten about that. And he even admitted

that he didn't have evidence to back up his impression.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/12/us/comey-ferguson-effect-police-videos-fbi.html

WASHINGTON — The director of the F.B.I. reignited the factious debate over a so-called “Ferguson effect” on Wednesday, saying that he believed less aggressive policing was driving an alarming spike in murders in many cities.

James Comey, the director, said that while he could offer no statistical proof, he believed after speaking with a number of police officials that a “viral video effect” — with officers wary of confronting suspects for fear of ending up on a video — “could well be at the heart” of a spike in violent crime in some cities.

“There’s a perception that police are less likely to do the marginal additional policing that suppresses crime — the getting out of your car at 2 in the morning and saying to a group of guys, ‘Hey, what are you doing here?’” he told reporters.

Mr. Comey was wading back into a dispute from last fall that pitted him against some of his bosses at the White House and the Justice Department and one that roiled racial tensions over confrontations between police officers and minorities.

[uponit7771]

15. Yeap, fuck Comey... took him a year to read fuckin emails

[malaise]

10. Precisely

This is disgusting and so was Louisiana - both were cold blooded murders.

[Odin2005]

11. He was murdered for the "crime" of concealed-carrying while Black.

Roided out racist randos hate the very idea of POC being legally armed.

[Catherine Vincent]

12. Another one...

[HipChick]

13. Cops are using black people for target practice

[librechik]

14. it seems to me we are never going to stop it. It's who we are.

It's who we always have been.

[WhisCo]

16. It's certainly not random

30% of the people in the USA shot by the police are black. There is obviously an enormous bias accounted for only by race.

[lapislzi]

17. His name is Philando Castile

His life mattered.