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Minnesota Officer Charged in Killing of Philando Castile

HeadlineNov 17, 2016

In Minnesota, police officer Jeronimo Yanez has been charged with second-degree manslaughter for killing African American Philando Castile during a traffic stop. Castile’s death was live-streamed on Facebook by his girlfriend, Diamond “Lavish” Reynolds, in an extraordinary video in which she narrated the aftermath of the shooting while she was still in the car, with a police officer pointing a gun at her and her four-year-old daughter as her boyfriend lay dying next to her. Yanez has also been charged with felony charges of endangering the safety of Reynolds and her daughter. It’s the first time in at least 30 years that a police officer in Minnesota has faced charges for killing someone while on duty, and comes after nationwide demonstrations protesting Castile’s killing.

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