US police kill another black man in Minnesota
A white police officer in the US state of Minnesota has shot dead an African American man during a traffic stop amid ongoing protests over the police killing of a black man in Minnesota.
Philando Castile, 32, was shot inside his car on Wednesday as he tried to reach for his drivier's license, his girlfriend said in a Facebook live video taken after Castile was shot.
The video showed a woman sitting in the car next to Castile who was covered with blood and a police officer standing outside the car pointing his gun at him.
She said Castile had earlier told the officer that he was carrying a licensed firearm, then tried to get his wallet out.
"You shot four bullets into him, sir. He was just getting his license and registration," said the woman who was identified as Diamond Reynolds in local media.
“The officer said, ‘Don’t move,”’ the woman also said in the video. “As he was putting his hands back up, the officer shot him in the arm.”
At one point in the video, the officer can be heard saying: “I told him not to reach for it. I told him to get his hand out.”
Police confirmed that Castile was shot dead by an officer while he was in a car with a woman and a child.
The incidents comes as police brutality, particularly against blacks, is back in the national spotlight after Tuesday’s killing of 37-year-old Alton Sterling by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Hundreds of people gathered in Baton Rouge for a second night on Wednesday at the shop where Sterling was killed a day earlier.
The US Justice Department said on Wednesday it has launched a civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting.
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