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APNewsBreak: Half of arrestees where Castile died are black
Posted On Jul 23 2016
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That’s because lawyers for Jeronimo Yanez – the man who shot and killed the 32-year-old cafeteria worker for having a “wide nose” on Wednesday – are trying to say he was simply reacting to “the presence of [a] gun”.
Philando Castile was killed during a traffic stop on July 6 by St. Anthony Officer Jeronimo Yanez.
– A former Atlanta judge best known for her syndicated TV show is now “stepping beyond the bench” to take on her fledgling law firm’s highest-profile case: representing the family of Philando Castile, a black driver who was shot dead by a white police officer in a Twin Cities suburb.
ST. PAUL – The mother of Philando Castile and the family’s attorney said Tuesday they will aggressively pursue justice on his behalf and work for systemic changes to address police bias and violence.
“My first response when I came to Ms. Castile’s home was to hug her, not to treat her as Judge Hatchett, but to greet her, embrace her, hug her as one mother to another”, Hatchett said.
Based on what she knows about the shooting so far, “this never should have happened”, she said, adding: “This time must be the last time”. She says she’ll closely monitor the criminal investigation and wants a special prosecutor to handle the case.
Kelly told AP on Saturday that Yanez reacted to Castile’s gun – not his race. “I told him to get his hand off it”.
She was separated from her daughter, was denied food and water and was “treated like a prisoner”, she said a day later.
“He was suddenly taken from us under frightful circumstances”, Valerie Castile said at the news conference that drew national media.
She was joined by Castile’s mother, Valerie Castile. Paul metropolitan area as a whole, which was about 7 percent black in 2014, according to the latest American Community Survey data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Seconds later, he said “the two occupants just look like people that were involved in a robbery”. She said the fact that Castile was stopped by police at least 52 times should be investigated.
