Police shot and killed a man Wednesday in the St. Paul suburb of Falcon Heights, Minnesota, and his girlfriend recorded the aftermath in a graphic video shot using the Facebook Live feature.
The video, which was removed from Facebook as of Wednesday night, showed the man bleeding from gunshot wounds as his girlfriend filmed from the driver’s seat. The police officer “shot him three times because we had a busted tail light,” the woman filming can be heard saying.
Officials have not officially released the victim’s name, but his family identified him as Philando Castile, local news station WCCO reported. He was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis and relatives told The Star-Tribune he died at the hospital.
The 10-minute video of the incident was posted to Facebook by user Lavish Reynolds, whose profile was also removed from the site. The Facebook Live feature can only be used by the Facebook user posting the video, and it records and plays back in real time.
While filming, the girlfriend explains that the officer asked her boyfriend for his license and registration, and that he told the officer he had a pistol and was licensed to carry.
In the video, the woman described the police as shooting Castile between three and five times. An officer in the video can be heard saying, “I told him not to reach for it. I told him to get his hand out.” Then, officers can be heard ordering the girlfriend out of her car, and seen escorting her into the back seat of a police car.
“He doesn’t have no records or anything,” she can be heard telling the police. “He’s never been in jail, anything. He’s not a gang member, anything.”
A police officer can be seen in the background holding a young girl who is presumed to be the woman’s daughter, according to the Star Tribune.
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