Note: I did a post on Philando Castile last year shortly after police shot him dead. This post is mainly about the police dashcam video that was just made public.
Dramatis Personae:
- Philando Castile – a Black man in the US.
- Diamond Reynolds – his girlfriend
- Jeronimo Yanez – a killer cop
Scene: Larpenteur Avenue in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, a suburb of St
Paul. Wednesday July 6th 2016 at 9.04pm.
Yanez pulls over Castile. With Castile in the car are Reynolds and her
four-year-old daughter.
Yanez: (on the police radio) Gonna stop the car. I have reason to pull
it over. It just look like, uh, people that were involved in a robbery.Yanez: (walks up to the car) Hello sir.
Castile: (inaudible), how are you?
Yanez: Good. Uh, reason I pulled you over do you, your brake lights are out. So you only have one activated, active brake light and that’s gonna be your passenger side one. Your third brake light which is up here on top and then this one back here is gonna be out.
Castile: (inaudible)
Yanez: You have your license and insurance? (puts his hand on his gun!)
(pause/background noise)
Castile: (hands over his insurance but still has to get his licence) Sir, I have to tell you I do have a…
Yanez: Okay.
Castile: …firearm on me.
Yanez: Okay.
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.
BANG
BANG
BANG
BANG
BANG
BANG
BANGReynolds: You just killed my boyfriend.
Castile: I wasn’t reaching … (his last words)
Reynolds: He wasn’t reaching…
Yanez: (screaming) DON’T PULL IT OUT!
Reynolds: He wasn’t.
Yanez: (screaming) DON’T MOVE! FUCK.
Reynolds: Oh man, I can’t believe you just did that.
Yanez: (screaming) FUCK. FUCK!
Reynolds: Oh my God!
Yanez: (screaming) DON’T MOVE!
Reynolds: Oh my God!
Yanez: (screaming) DON’T MOVE!
Reynolds: Oh my God I’m shaking
Yanez: (screaming) DON’T MOVE!
Reynolds: Don’t move baby.
Yanez: (screaming) CODE 3. GET THE BABY GIRL OUTTA HERE. OH FUCK. (an officer takes the girl)
Reynolds: Don’t, don’t (inaudible) sir.
Yanez: (screaming) DON’T MOVE!
Reynolds: Don’t move baby, please
Yanez: (screaming) FUCK.
Reynolds: Whatever you do…
Yanez: (still screaming) 6921 GET A, MEDIC HERE CODE 3. SHOTS FIRED. OH FUCK! (heavy breathing)
At this point Reynolds starts streaming video live to the Internet, what we saw last year.
More police cars arrive. One officer holding a rifle (pictured above) takes away Reynolds.
In a separate video from the back of a police car:
Reynolds’s daughter: Mom, please don’t scream ’cause I don’t want you to get shooted! […] I wish this town was safer.
During the shooting, a bullet had hit the back seat where she was sitting.
Nearly five minutes pass before police try to save Castile’s life.
Yanez was charged with:
- second-degree manslaughter,
- intentional discharge of a dangerous weapon, endangering Reynolds,
- intentional discharge of a dangerous weapon, endangering her daughter.
Last week a jury of ten White people and two young Black men found
Yanez not guilty of all three charges – because he feared for his life.
Yanez never saw the gun.
– Abagond, 2017.
Sources: mainly NPR, gomn.com, Google Images.
See also:
- YouTube:
- Ramsey County: Squad dashcam video – Yanez case (WARNING: Graphic content) – the dashcam video itself (10 minutes). No blood or anything like that, but still horrific. I generally do not link to videos of police shootings, they have become like lynching postcards, but this one should be seen.
- The Advise Show: Philando Castile Dashcam Video Released & Sparks Anger – has a good compilation of the available videos. Shows the dashcam and the Reynolds video together in sync.
- Philando Castile
- The police
- slave patrols – were allowed to kill Black people. US policing and the Klan grew out of slave patrols.
- killer cops
- copspeak – “broken tail light”, “feared for his safety”, “fit the description”, etc.
- Black Brute stereotype – Black men will try to shoot their way out of a traffic ticket and tell you they have a gun first. Because they are bad-ass and deranged like that.
- Phantom Negro Weapons
- DWB: Driving While Black
- What to do if you are stopped by the police – like safety belts, it will increase your odds of living, but you could still wind up dead.
- Sandra Bland dashcam video
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It’s a shame more commenters care about personally attacking people with whom they disagree than real issues like this one.
The fact that the camera footage was released after the trial tells you all you need to know. And how a jury could choose not to convict based on the evidence shows just how evil they are.
These unjust trials are providing solid basis for the claim that Dr. Welsing made in 1982 about “justifiable homicide” of black men in the US.
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@2:13 Philando Castile: Officer, I have a firearm on me.
@2:14 Officer Yanez: Don’t pull it out
@2:15 Philando Castile: I’m uh have to pull it out
@2:16 Officer Yanez: Don’t pull it out (officer begins to rapidly pull the trigger)
If this audio wasn’t tampered with and Philando did in fact say: “I’m uh have to pull it out.” Well then, he caused his own death. This holds true even more so, particularly in light of all of the extrajudicial shootings involving Black men in Amerika. I don’t mean to be harsh, but it is also a reality for the vast majority of so-called African Americans in this hell hole of a country, we must be extra vigilant and smart around these Robo-cops who are essentially paid vigilantes with a badge and no brain.
Moreover, Philando was supposedly a murder suspect. Hell,… the officer didn’t even have his hand on his revolver as he approached the vehicle. (smh)
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It should be noted that Yanez is Hispanic. From my experience, Hispanics are more anti-black than white people.
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According to the US Census, most Hispanics in the US are white, even if “real” white people don’t consider them to be white.
I’d be willing to bet Yanez checked “white” on his census form with a permanent marker.
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In spite of overwhelming evidence, Yanez, like most cops before him, gets to walk away while family and friends are left not only grieving for the loss of Castile, but have to deal with a blatant miscarriage of justice, assuming that the courts had any hint of justice to begin with.
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And what’s even more galling is Yanez can go anywhere and get another job. I bet there was a Go Fund Me Page set up for him like they do all the murdering killers of black people.
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@ Brothawolf
Yes, “miscarriage of justice” is a charitable way if putting it.
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@Cops Must Die
I deleted your comment. WordPress does not allow calls for violence.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40408004
“Philando Castile death: Mother gets $3m over police shooting”
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I just saw the dashcam video for the first time. Truly sickening. Jury thought this was justified response to someone saying they’re armed in a country and state where it’s not illegal to be armed.
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Origin
I can’t bring myself to do it. I keep saying I will but just can’t.
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So the NRA spokeswomen Dana Loesch finally vocized the NRA’s position.
” I don’t agree with every single decision that comes out from courtrooms of America. There are a lot of variables in this particular case, and there were a lot of things that I wish would have been done differently. Do I believe that Philando Castile deserved to lose his life over his [traffic] stop? I absolutely do not. I also think that this is why we have things like NRA Carry Guard, not only to reach out to the citizens to go over what to do during stops like this, but also to work with law enforcement so that they understand what citizens are experiencing when they go through stops like this.”
“to go over what to do during stops like this”
In other words if Philando had just known “what to do” he wouldn’t have gotten shot. It’s his fault. He should have paid a 100 dollars and taken a NRA “Carry Gaurd Class”. And then the outcome would have been completely different. smh
NRA is for white people.
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