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*The family of Philando Castile, the black Minnesota man shot and killed last week by police, has hired the former host of TV’s “Judge Hatchett” to represent them in a potential civil lawsuit, her law firm announced Monday. Castile, who was about to turn 33, was fatally shot by police during a traffic stop July 6 […]

*Officer Jeronimo Yanez, who fatally shot Philando Castile during a traffic stop last year, told investigators that the smell of “burnt marijuana” in Castile’s car made him believe his life was in danger. So basically, Castile was murdered over an officer’s fear of second-hand smoke. “I thought, I was gonna die,” Officer Jeronimo Yanez told […]

*In the minutes after Philando Castile was shot by then officer Jeronimo Yanez, the two other passengers, Diamond Reynolds and her daughter, were placed in the back of a squad car and the just-released video of them will tear your heart apart. As the world knows, Reynolds broadcast the aftermath of the July 2016 police […]

*A Philando Castile memorial fund has wiped out a year’s worth of school lunch debt in St. Paul, Minnesota. Castile, whose murder by police officer Jeronimo Yanez sparked nationwide outrage, worked as a nutrition services supervisor at the J.J. Hill Montessori school in St. Paul. Yanez was found not guilty for Castile’s death earlier this summer. According […]

Minnesota officer Jeronimo Yanez acquitted in fatal shooting of motorist Philando Castile *The Minnesota police officer acquitted in last year’s fatal shooting of Philando Castile has left the police department where he served. St. Anthony officer Jeronimo Yanez has reached a “separation agreement” and is no longer a police officer, the department announced Monday (July […]

Diamond Reynolds *The woman whose boyfriend Philando Castile was fatally shot by a Minnesota police officer Wednesday night has offered more details about the tragedy, her treatment afterward at the police station and the effect this will have on her four-year-old daughter who witnessed the shooting from the back seat. Speaking in front of the Minnesota governor’s […]

[…] racial justice organization, issued the following statement in response to the not guilty verdict for St. Anthony Police Officer Jeronimo Yanez, who shot and killed Black man Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, MN last July. Rashad Robinson, Executive Director of Color Of Change: “Driving while Black is a crime punishable by death in America. That’s […]

[…] Colin Kaepernick posted a picture on social media last week comparing modern police officers to fugitive slave patrols. Kaepernick’s post on Twitter was in response to the Philando Castile verdict, in which Minnesota police officer Jeronimo Yanez was found not guilty of fatally shooting Castile during a traffic stop last July. Yanez was acquitted on […]

Dana Loesch – NRA *The National Rifle Association has been radio silent regarding Philando Castile, the 32-year-old, African American registered gun owner who was shot and killed by a Minnesota cop last July. But Thursday morning saw a flurry of tweets from NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch that appear to blame Castile for his own death. […]

*A 32-year-old man involved in a police officer shooting in Falcon Heights, Minnesota has died, according to WCCO-TV. The man, Philando Castile, died at Hennepin County Medical Center, confirms his mother, Valerie Castile. The report also stated that St. Anthony, MN police confirmed that two officers were involved in the shooting. Castile’s girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, and […]

*Remember Diamond Reynolds who was in the car with Philando Castile with her baby daughter when a cop shot and killed him? Reynolds, who as also Castile’s girlfriend, has filed a defamation lawsuit against Elysian, Minnesota Mayor Tom McBroom over his 2017 tweet where he stated she would spend her settlement money on “crack cocaine.” […]

Mark Dayton, Philando Castile *Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton (D) suggested that race played a role in the death of Philando Castile, the 32-year-old school cafeteria manager shot and killed by police during a traffic stop over a broken taillight. Dayton said he doesn’t think a police officer would have shot and killed a driver over a […]

*The judge in the criminal case against police officer Jeronimo Yanez in the fatal shooting of Philando Castile, has decided it will proceed to trial after defense attorneys’ attempt to dismiss the charges were denied. Ramsey County District Judge William H. Leary III noted in his decision that that using a victim’s behavior to justify […]

*The girlfriend of Philando Castile will receive a total of $800,000 in settlement money from two Minnesota entities over his fatal police shooting during a traffic stop. The St. Anthony City Council voted Tuesday night to pay Diamond Reynolds and her 4-year-old daughter $675,000. Both were in the car with Castille when he was killed. […]

[…] Live or Twitter’s Periscope. Regular citizens-turned-eyewitness-reporters are popping up across the country and they are using their smartphones to capture everything from the recent deadly police shootings of Philando Castile in Minnesota and Alton Sterling in Louisiana, to the civil unrest in Ferguson, MO. to the sit-in staged by Democrats in the House of Representatives to […]