The video was among the evidence gathered in the investigation and used in the trial. Unlike Reynolds' video, the squad-car video shows the situation's quick escalation and the shooting itself.
Officer Yanez was found not guilty of manslaughter and other charges last week.
This is also what Castile's fiance Diamond Reynolds relayed in the Facebook Live video she began streaming just moments after the shots were fired, which went viral across the US.
Castile: "I'm not pulling it out".
The routine stop escalated quickly when Yanez fired seven fast shots into the vehicle, striking Castile five times. It captures what was said between the two men. To which Yanez replies, "Don't reach for it then". Castile hands over the insurance document, just before the interaction quickly devolves into violence.
When Yanez opened fire, another officer near the vehicle jumped back, and Yanez began yelling at the driver. Castile responded, saying he had a firearm with him but did not intend to use it.
The recently acquitted cop who killed legal gun owner Philando Castile at a Minnesota traffic stop last summer claimed a whiff of pot made him fear for his life.
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They crossed the street and when they got to me, they said, 'Run, there is a shooter , ' so I started to run with them", she said. It is unclear if any of the victims were targeted, but Chaplin said he does not believe the case to be linked to terrorism.
"The public will be best served if Officer Yanez is no longer a police officer in our city", the statement said.
Reynolds' daughter, who was in the backseat at the time, then exits through the passenger side, and the other officer picks her up and carries her out of view. The video doesn't show what happened inside the auto.
Booking photo of Minnesota police officer Jeronimo Yanez in St. Paul.
- Off-camera conversation. Yanez can be heard talking with a female supervising officer in which he gives a brief explanation of the events.
Officer Jeroimo Yanez was acquitted on Friday of second-degree manslaughter in the July 2016 shooting death of Philando Castile. Eighteen people were arrested.
In Minnesota, citizens are allowed to carry firearms if they have a permit to do so. "And a murderer gets away?" As you can see he was breathing hard, he's traumatized when he saw the gun, and Mr. Castile was not following orders. Yanez's critics said this is part of larger pattern in which police are more likely to brutalized black people. 'It's not us that were on trial, it was the system that was on trial, ' said Mel Reeves, a community activist, according to the New York Times.
The jury heard two weeks of testimony and deliberated four-and-a-half days before finding Yanez not guilty.
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