Woman Facebook live-streams her dying boyfriend seconds after he is shot four times by a cop as his mother says police kept her from her son’s deathbed and claims the girlfriend is now missing
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Lavish Reynolds live-streamed the aftermath of her boyfriend’s shooting
Philando Castile was shot at 9pm during a traffic stop in Minnesota
Reynolds claims that he was reaching for a license and ID
And she says he told the cop he had a license to carry a weapon
But she claims the ‘Chinese police officer’ shot him four times in the arm
The cop – audibly panicked – swears and tells her not to move several times
Police have confirmed that he died in hospital
Some 200 protesters formed outside Minnesota Governor’s house
The cop is from the St. Anthony Police Department in Falcon Heights
Castile’s mother learned of it when her daughter screamed while online
She claims she wasn’t allowed to see her son in hospital
By Sarah Dean and James Wilkinson
Dailymail.com
7 July 2016
The devastated mother of a black man who was shot dead by a cop and whose death was live-streamed on Facebook by his girlfriend says she was prevented from seeing him on his deathbed.
Valerie Castile, mother of Philando Castile, 32, who was shot in Falcon Heights, Saint Paul, Minnesota on Wednesday night, also claimed they have been unable to locate Lavish Reynolds, his girlfriend, since she was arrested by police.
The shocking footage of the aftermath of the shooting has sparked protests in Saint Paul, with hundreds of people descending on the Governor of Minnesota’s house demanding justice. It is the second controversial police shooting of a black man to emerge in 24 hours.
In the video, Reynolds tells viewers that she and Castile were pulled over for a busted tail light by a ‘Chinese police officer’.
She claims the cop, from the St. Anthony Police Department in Falcon Heights, asked Castile, a cafeteria supervisor at a Montessori school in St Paul, to show his license, but then shot him four times while he reached for it.
As she talks, she moves the camera across to show Castile, bloody and losing consciousness, and the cop – still pointing his gun, as her young daughter sits in the back seat.
The police officer, who is yet to be identified, been placed on paid leave.
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