MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A 32-year-old man has died after an officer-involved shooting Wednesday night in Falcon Heights.
Philando Castile’s mother, Valerie Castile, says he died at Hennepin County Medical Center just before 9:40 p.m.
St. Anthony Police said in a press release that officers pulled over a vehicle at Larpenteur Avenue and Fry Street at about 9 p.m. They said “shots were fired” during the traffic stop, and a handgun was recovered at the scene. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is investigating.
Castile’s family says his girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, and her 4-year-old daughter were in the car at the time. Reynolds was taken into custody Wednesday night.
The video above, filmed by Reynolds under the Facebook account for Lavish Reynolds, began circulating on Facebook shortly after the shooting, but was pulled from the site before midnight.
Crowd gathers at site of Philando Castile shooting. (credit: CBS)
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 …”
Philando and Valerie Castile (credit: Castile Family)
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.
“Oh my God, please don’t tell me he’s dead. Please don’t tell me my boyfriend just went like that,” Reynolds said.
The officer, whose gun is drawn the entire time, tells Reynolds to, “Keep your hands where they are.”
“Yes I will, sir, I’ll keep my hands where they are,” she said.
Crowds gather at scene of Philando Castile’s shooting (credit: CBS)
Reynolds is then told to get out of the car. Her cellphone shows several officers with guns drawn, and one officer holding her daughter, who was in the back seat of the car when Castile was shot.
Valerie Castile told WCCO that her son was a cafeteria supervisor at J.J. Hill Montessori School in St. Paul. He would have turned 33 on July 16.
Sgt. Jon Mangseth, St. Anthony Police’s interim chief, told reporters late Wednesday night that he was aware of the Facebook video, but not of its content.
“[We haven’t had an] officer-involved shooting in, you know, 30 years or more. I’d have to go back in the history books, to tell you the truth,” Mangseth said.
He later stated in a brief press conference early Thursday morning that the officer who shot Castile has been placed on standard paid administrative leave.
Nekima Levy-Pounds and Philando Castile’s family at HCMC (credit: CBS)
The St. Anthony Police Department provides police services for the neighboring cities of Falcon Heights and Lauderdale.
Castile’s family and friends gathered at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis late Wednesday night, and were later joined by Minneapolis NAACP President Nekima Levy-Pounds and other community activists.
Memorial at Philando Castile’s shooting site. (credit: CBS)
An estimated 200 people were gathered at the shooting site in Falcon Heights at 1:30 a.m. Police started towing cars soon after, and most people left by 2:30 a.m.
Crowds watch as Philando Castile’s car is towed. (credit: CBS)
Protesters then began to gather at the Governor’s Mansion in St. Paul after 2 a.m.
Police Fatally Shoot Man During Traffic Stop, Aftermath Video Posted July 6, 2016 11:22 PM
Discussion in 'News & Current Events' started by Zaac, Jul 7, 2016.
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1) A man breaks the law, causing an encounter with police.
2) The man has a gun, raising the dangers in a police encounter.
3) The man may or may not have cooperated with police instructions.
4) The man is shot.
5) The racist and the prejudiced insist the shooting was racial.
5) The man's family will collect millions of dollars in a settlement.
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I'm going to call Philando Castile out as a thug. He has a massive record of driving violations. His online postings are full fo racist rants. I have no doubt that he gave the officer an attitude that made the officer nervous, giving the officer reason to think the thug was reaching for the gun.
I think probably the officer shouldn't have shot. But, I think the officer is guilty of nothing more than minor negligence. Castile is the cause of his own death by repeatedly putting police in stressful situations, until Castile's luck ran out. -
Crabtownboy Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
From: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...an-adored-school-cafeteria-manager/?tid=sm_fb
Before he was fatally shot Wednesday by a police officer in Minnesota, before his name became a hashtag, Philando Castile was known as a warm and gentle presence at J.J. Hill Montessori Magnet School, where he managed the cafeteria.
He was there when children streamed into school for breakfast in the morning, playing music and bantering. He was there when they returned for lunch: Laughing with kids, urging them to eat more vegetables, helping keep order in his easygoing way.
And so it is difficult for anyone at J.J. Hill to understand why he won’t be there anymore, and how he could be gone.
“We’re just devastated,” said Anna Garnaas, who teaches first-, second- and third-graders at the school, located in St. Paul, Minn. “He just loved the kids, and he always made sure that they had what they needed. He knew their names, he knew what they liked, he knew who had allergies. And they loved him.” -
Your comments should be the poster boy for why people of color say that the many in the white majority undervalue and marginalize the worth of their lives. :CautiousWhat you just displayed is part of the problem with the police officers who keep MURDERING these folks. They look at them and think their lives aren't to be valued in the way you would someone who is white.
A minor negligence. THAT is one of the most disgusting things I think I've ever read.
And he could have a rap sheet that stretched from Florida to California. That is NOT cause to MURDER him just because the officer's mindset was obviously like yours in seeing a thug whose life didn't matter.
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White folks don't cooperate with the police every day. But you don't see incident after incident after incident after incident of the police shooting them dead for not cooperating. -
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And you have not shows your links where you slandered the murder man. -
Have you never made a mistake on the job, especially if someone was putting you in a tough situation? -
And I'll say it again. time and time again, you see white people arguing with the police and doing everything but complying. Yet they rarely seem to end up dead. And I believe the reasoning is because of something you displayed: an undervaluing and marginalization of the worth of that life because YOU believed him to be a racist thug with a spurious criminal history.
If there is a race war in this country, THAT is why it will take place. You have demonstrated that you cared as little about that life taken as obviously did the cops who took it. And that is a shameless thing for someone who says they are a follower of Jesus Christ.
If he's done something that wrong, give him his day in court as is done with the many, many white people.
It remains disgusting and should be placed at the foot of the Cross.:Thumbsdown -
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As to "numerous encounters with police" he has a bunch of citations like no proof of insurance, no muffler, seat belt violation, driving after revocation of license, etc.
This "mistake" as you so flippantly call it was fatal. A man is dead. Dead.
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The officer is presumed innocent until evidence to the contrary. And, sorry, his skin color doesn't cost him the presumption of innocence, at least to those of us who aren't racially prejudiced.
Philando Castile was a racist thug, and I have no trouble believing that he caused his own death by possessing a gun while being threatening toward the officer. -
I think what Jesse Williams said was poignant.
And I say again, the reason for this is what YOU demonstrated. A lot of these police officers undervalue the lives of black and brown people for the same reason you do. And in turn their lives mean less, and it's okay to not refrain from using deadly force on the savages. -
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SHAMELESS!
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Why don't I know? Do I not have access to the same information that you do? You ain't concerned with any of that. Your racial prejudice is on display and it is the VERY SAME type of racial prejudice/racism that causes police officers to undervalue and marginalize the lives of these, in your words, "racist thugs" they keep murdering. -
InTheLight Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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