The Facebook live video Reynolds streamed previous year immediately went viral - another scene to add to the horrific number of shooting of black men by police this country has already amassed.
On June 16, Yanez, who said he had feared for his life, was acquitted of manslaughter and two counts of endangering Reynolds and her daughter. "My phone just died". "And I thought if he's, if he has the, the guts and the audacity to smoke marijuana in front of the five year old girl and risk her lungs and risk her life by giving her secondhand smoke and the front seat passenger doing the same thing then what, what care does he give about me".
Reynolds responded by asking for a kiss. Reynolds and the girl were both in the vehicle at the time of the shooting.
"They [sic] not gonna shoot me, OK?" Reynolds began to tape after the officer fired seven shots into her boyfriend. "They think, 'What if that was me?" "I don't want it to be like this anymore". As Castile moaned and as his white T-shirt began turning crimson, Castile's girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, who along with her 4-year-old daughter were passengers in the auto, live-streamed the aftermath of the shooting on Facebook.
The video was among thousands of files released Wednesday by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. A 15-year-old, Edwards had done nothing wrong but everything right: he, his two brothers, and two friends left a party once a gun was sacked in hopes of escaping violence. From witnessing her father die to sitting alongside her mother handcuffed and screaming, that little girl was introduced to a harsh reality that no parent would want their child to experience.
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Castile was black and Yanez is Hispanic. However, what remains in question is that this isn't the first time that police had encountered danger posed by someone under the influence of marijuana.
A black or brown person gets killed by police, and there are no consequences. Last year North Carolina police officers chose to confront Keith Lamont Scott in his vehicle after observing him smoking marijuana in it. Friday, another white cop got away with another murder of a black man, the third such travesty in about a month.
Reynolds response: "Tell that to the police, OK?" A police dashboard-camera recording of the shooting, shown at the trial but not made public until Tuesday, is even more painful to watch.
Here in Oakland, the police continue to treat black and brown people differently - worse than they do whites, according to a report by Stanford researchers who detected racial disparities in police officers' speech. "Y'all are next and you'll be standing. you'll be fighting for justice". We went on our way, but it was frightening and humiliating.
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