Governor: Black driver wouldn’t be dead if he were white

“I don’t think it would have”. No other details about the injuries were released. Their frustrations stem from both a state and federal probe into the death of Jamar Clark, a 24-year-old black man fatally shot by Minneapolis police during an encounter in November.

The driver’s girlfriend – who watched the encounter and streamed the gruesome aftermath in live video to Facebook from the passenger seat – asks at one point for help.

Castile was shot Wednesday during a traffic stop. Castile’s girlfriend Diamond Reynolds took the footage, which shows Castile slumped over and bleeding, a police officer in the background seen pointing his pistol in the vehicle window. Afterward, a Roseville police officer brought Reynolds home, the report said.

State investigators named Jeronimo Yanez and Joseph Kauser as the officers involved.

Reynolds said the officer opened fire when Castile reached for his identification. No one else was injured. “There are conflicting explanations, and only an independent investigation can hopefully reveal the truth”. The officer was shown failing to give Philando medical attention after the shooting, instead continuing to point his gun in his direction while he bled out in his auto. Yanez’s attorney, Thomas Kelly, didn’t return a call seeking comment Thursday.

Several videos, including squad auto video of the incident, have been collected, but St. Anthony officers don’t wear body cameras, the agency said. A year earlier, a photograph showed him standing guard at a fallen-officers memorial. Dayton said he and other state officials would ask for stronger federal involvement. A day earlier, Alton Sterling was shot in Louisiana after being pinned to the pavement by two white officers. The fatal police shootings are “symptomatic of a broader set of racial disparities that exist in our criminal justice system”.

As word of the Minnesota shooting spread, Castile’s relatives joined scores of people who gathered at the scene and outside the hospital where he died. As she spoke calmly into the camera letting viewers know what had just transpired, the critically wounded Castile could be seen gasping for air.

“I just want justice for everyone”, Diamond Reynolds said.

“Historically, African-Americans have viewed guns kind of like the boogeyman – ‘The master told you not to look at the gun and we shouldn’t touch a gun, ‘” Smith said.

Castile described her son as a “laid back” but industrious man who worked as a St. Paul school cafeteria supervisor and enjoyed playing video games. She recalled cautioning him to always comply with police, but she said she never thought she would lose him.

“This has to cease. This has to stop, right now”, she told the crowd.

Protestors gathered outside the governor’s home in St. Paul after the shooting. Dayton waded through the crowd as protesters chanted: “What do we want?”

He added: “Although I am constrained in commenting on the particular facts of these cases, I am encouraged that the US Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation in Baton Rouge, and I have full confidence in their professionalism and their ability to conduct a thoughtful, thorough, and fair inquiry”.

As the crowd thinned Thursday night, demonstrators marched from the mansion to the place where Castile was shot, blocking traffic at several intersections along the way.

“He killed him for no reason”, Reynolds said. More than a dozen arrests were made, the New York Police Department said.

In April, an 18-year-old woman was charged after she live streamed her friend’s rape on Twitter’s Periscope.

“That’s time to start mitigating the damage”, Moulder said.

Castile was driving the auto, with Reynolds riding beside him.

She said she had not slept since the shooting, and as she talked about her brother, she broke down in tears. “I told him to get his hand out”.

In response, Reynolds said: “You told him to get his ID, sir, his driver’s licence”.

Reynolds’ video was pulled for about an hour from Facebook, causing an uproar among some users.

“I told him not to reach for it”, an officer with his gun drawn and pointed at Castile can be heard saying in the video.

In Texas, a man attacked the headquarters of the Dallas Police Department last June with gunfire and explosives before being shot dead in a standoff with police snipers.

A handgun was recovered from the scene, police said.

Castile was shot in Falcon Heights, a mostly white community of 5,000 served primarily by the nearby St. Anthony Police Department. However, using the social network in order to broadcast these videos ultimately allows Facebook to turn a profit, a morally questionable dilemma to say the least.