JUSTIFIED - Dash Camera Video Of Philando Castile Shooting Released; Dispels Lies - Blue Lives Matter

Dash camera video shows what really happened during the Philando Castile shooting.

Philando Castile Shooting Dash Camera Video Released

St. Paul, MN – Dash camera footage from the Philando Castile shooting has finally been released, and it reveals that the narrative given by his girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, is not accurate (video below.) This comes after Reynolds had already been caught in a string of other lies.

Castile’s girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, is well-known for live-streaming the aftermath of her boyfriend’s 2016 fatal shooting by St. Anthony Police Officer Jeronimo Yanez during a traffic stop. Reynolds’ live-streamed Facebook video of the traffic stop did not capture anything that led up to the shooting of Philando Castile, or the shooting itself, only the aftermath.

The video has been viewed millions of times and led to rioting.  The shooting occurred in close proximity to the shooting of Alton Sterling, and the two shootings contributed to a boiling-over point, inspiring the terrorist attacks which involved assassinating police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge.

“He’s licensed to carry. He was trying to get out his ID and his wallet out his pocket, and he let the officer know.” Reynolds said on her Facebook Live stream of the aftermath of the shooting.

The dash camera video shows that after informing Officer Jeronimo Yanez that he was armed, the officer told Castile repeatedly not to reach for his gun.

Philando Castile responded, “I don’t have to reach for it,” while reaching in the area where his gun was located.

Castile never told the officer what he was reaching for.

It was later determined that Castile was high on marijuana at the time of the stop, which impaired his ability to listen to Officer Yanez when he was instructed not to reach for his gun. Officer Yanez shot Castile after he ignored orders and reached towards his gun.

Officer Yanez sounds like he’s crying as he repeatedly yells expletives.

“I told him not to reach for it,” a distressed Officer Yanez shouted in the aftermath of the shooting.

“You told him to get his ID, sir.” Diamond Reynolds responded.

In fact, Officer Yanez asked for Philando Castile’s license and insurance near the beginning of the stop and Castile had already handed over paperwork before informing Officer Yanez about his gun.

Philando Castile didn’t have a driver’s license to turn over to turn over because his license was suspended. With a long history of arrests for driving on a suspended license, Philando Castile was likely aware that he was about to be arrested, which is when he informed the officer that he was armed.

After 27 hours of deliberation, on Friday at around 2 PM, a Ramsey county court issued the Philando Castile verdict and found Officer Jeronimo Yanez not guilty of all counts in the shooting of Philando Castile in July 2016.

St. Anthony Police Officer Jeronimo Yanez had stopped Castile’s vehicle on July 6, 2016,  because he believed Castile might have been involved in a convenience store robbery a few days earlier. Officer Yanez was one of the police officers who had responded to that robbery. Further investigation after the stop showed no connection to Castile and the robbery.

As an apparent ruse, the officer told Castile that he was stopped for having a brake light out.

Castile’s long previous criminal history does not show a tendency toward violence, although he had been stopped 52 times in the past few years for traffic-related issues.

After the Philando Castile shooting, Diamond Reynolds lied after Castile was shot and said that he didn’t have any criminal history.  Reynolds also lied by claiming that she was Castile’s fiance, when she wasn’t. She claimed that she was held overnight by the police, when she was only interviewed for two hours before an officer bought her groceries and took her home. And Reynolds claimed that police didn’t provide first aid to Castile, when they did.

We now know that Reynolds’s account of the shooting did not reflect what happened.

Diamond Reynolds was later arrested in an unrelated case for being involved in an attack, using a hammer to attack other women.

Officer Jeronimo Yanez was charged November 16 with second-degree manslaughter and two felony counts of dangerous discharge of a firearm.

Prosecutors claimed that Officer Yanez, who is Meican-American, racially profiled Philando Castile, who was black, when he stopped him.

The trial centered around whether Officer Jeronimo Yanez believed that Philando Castile was posing a threat to his life, and whether that belief was reasonable under the circumstances.

“I thought I was going to die,” Officer Jeronimo Yanez testified in his defense, “I had no other choice. I was forced to engage Mr. Castile. He was not complying with my directions.”

When asked if her wanted to shoot Philando Castile, Officer Yanez said, “I did not want to shoot Mr. Castile at all. Those were not my intentions.”

Officer Yanez told the court that when he saw Castile grab a gun near his right thigh after he had been ordered not to reach for it, visions of his wife and baby girl flashed through his mind, according to Star Tribune.

Now the false narrative about the Philando Castile shooting has already been rooted in peoples’ minds, it’s destined to become the next “hands up, don’t shoot.” People aren’t going to change their minds about what happened, and headlines will still claim that the shooting was an unjustified racially-motivated shooting.

You can see the dash camera video of the Philando Castile shooting below: