"It's OK, Mommy. It's OK," said the child who just saw her dad get shot. "I'm right here with you."
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She said this sitting next to her mother in the back seat of the police car after witnessing the police shoot Philando Castilo in cold blood -- 4 times through the window.
The man's girlfriend says they were stopped for a broken taillight and the police shot him as he was, per their instructions, reaching for his wallet.
His job was working in a school kitchen, preparing food for children.
There's a nice photo of him at the first link -- not covered in blood.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-shot-dead-minn-police-traffic-stop-article-1.2701935
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/08/us/philando-castile-falcon-heights-shooting.html
The Minnesota video, which begins after the shooting itself, shows the man slumped bloody against the woman who was recording it. Her young daughter sat in the back seat.
The footage was extraordinary in that the woman begins by calmly narrating what was happening as she trained the camera on the man, whom she described as her boyfriend, and on at least one officer who was pointing a gun through the driver’s side window.
“Please, officer, don’t tell me that you just did this to him,” she said. “You shot four bullets into him, sir. He was just getting his license and registration, sir.”
The woman’s daughter, who was in the back seat, appears several times in the video. Near the end of the 10-minute clip, as the two are sitting in the back of a police car, she comforts her mother, saying, “It’s O.K., Mommy. It’s O.K. I’m right here with you.”
http://heavy.com/news/2016/07/philando-castile-falcon-heights-minnesota-police-shooting-facebook-live-video-watch-uncensored-you-tube-police-shooting-man-shot-lavish-reynolds/
According to WCCO television, Castile’s mother, Valerie Castile, said Philando Castile worked as a cafeteria supervisor at J.J. Hill Montessori School in St. Paul.
“This was a GOOD MAN,” a parent of a child at the school wrote on Facebook, saying that Castile snuck extra graham crackers to children and hugged a borderline autistic child every day. He “pushed extra food in them like a grandma” and took care to know every single child’s name.
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In the Facebook Live video, Castile’s girlfriend, Lavish Reynolds, says that he works for the St. Paul school system, is not a gang member, and doesn’t have a criminal record (a records check with the Minnesota Department of Public Safety showed only Philando Castile had only a case for not having insurance; he was also booked once for driving after revocation. No non-traffic offenses came up. The Star-Tribune said his record consisted of “misdemeanors and petty misdemeanors”.)
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and shoot on the slightest pretext is off the rails. and no justice ever happens. case after case after case. 
was that the policeman who murdered him yelling FUCK in the background? wonder why, if his actions were justified...
