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http://www.businessinsider.com/philando-castile-shooting-police-commands-2016-7by: Natasha Bertrand
A 32-year-old black man whose girlfriend said was pulled over by a Minnesota police officer for a broken tail light was shot and killed by the officer late Wednesday night.
His girlfriend said that before he was shot, he allegedly told the officer that he had a concealed weapon in his glove compartment and a license to carry it.
The earliest details emerging from the shooting have led to questions about its implications for a central belief people have about the US policing system, as well as an assertion frequently posited in the wake of police shootings to justify the officers' actions:
If you comply with the police, you won't be harmed."I've always told my son: The key thing in order to try to survive being stopped by the police is to comply. Whatever they ask you to do — do it," Valerie Castile, Philando Castile's mother, said in an interview with CNN on Thursday morning.
"Don't say nothing. Just do whatever they want you to do. So what's the difference in complying and you get killed anyway?" she said.
Castile's girlfriend, Diamond "Lavish" Reynolds, who was in the vehicle with her 4-year-old daughter at the time and captured the aftermath of the shooting in a Facebook live stream, asserted in the video that her boyfriend informed the officer — who has not been identified — that he had a concealed weapon and a license to carry.
"He let the officer know that he had a firearm, and he was reaching for his wallet and the officer just shot him in his arm," she said.
The officer, employed by the St. Anthony's Police Department in the Minnesota suburb of Falcon Heights, near St. Paul, could be heard shouting expletives and screaming, "I told him not to reach for it!"
Reynolds responded: "You told him to get his ID, sir — his driver's license."
Police have not yet provided a detailed account of the incident. St. Anthony Police Sgt. Jon Mangseth did not tell reporters the reasons for the traffic stop, but he said that shots were fired at some point.
Chuck Drago, a former police chief in Florida with over 30 years of experience in law enforcement and government, declined to comment on the shooting since only the aftermath was recorded. He noted, however, that officers are typically instructed to clearly communicate their fears and expectations to a person who says they have a gun.
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