*New information about the shooting of Philando Castile by police officer Jeronimo Yanez on July 6 in Minnesota has been released. Castile was apparently pulled over by police because he matched the description of a robbery suspect with a “wide set nose.”
“I’m going to stop a car,” an officer says the police audio scanner, obtained by news outlets. “I’m going to check IDs. I have reason to pull it over.”
“The two occupants just look like people that were involved in a robbery,” the officer continues. “The driver looks like one of our suspects, because of the wide set nose.”
This was the next radio call from the officer: “Shots fired! Larpenteur and Fry.”
Initially reports said that Castile was pulled over for a broken taillight, but now the story is that Castile was profiled because he matched the description of a man with a big nose, which is interesting because to us, based on his photos, Castile doesn’t have a wide or big nose.
Both Castile’s girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, who was with him in the car when it was pulled over, and his uncle, Clarence Castile, weighed in on the recently released audio, which police have not commented on yet.
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When asked if she heard the audio from the scanner, Reynolds said that she did, but said to 11Alive, “Yes, but we didn’t fit any of the descriptions.”
Castile’s uncle, though, made an important point: “It’s kind of hard to see flared nostrils from a car,” he said. “But I don’t think that’s any excuse to pull anyone over and then wind up dead behind that.”
He added: “What we have to do is get my nephew buried and laid to rest in a good and honorable way. When that’s done, that’s when the fight begins. Then we’re going to start working to get serious justice.”
By the way, it’s unclear which robbery police were referring to when they said Castile – who was reportedly pulled over more than 50 times – looked like a suspect.
Here’s the audio:
h/t: theroot
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