Philando Castile was a school nutrition supervisor in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. According to his employer, he was popular among colleagues and students. On July 6th, 2016, two days after Independence Day and a week and a half before his 33rd birthday, Castile and his fiancee, Diamond Reynolds, along with his four year old daughter, were pulled over because of a broken tail light. He let the officer know that he had a firearm, but held a carrying permit, and was reaching for his wallet, when the officer shot him four times through the car window. Diamond Reynolds begins to record the shocking events on her cell phone, the officer still in sight with his gun trained on her dying fiancee. The officer tells her that because he was reaching for his wallet, he assumed he was pulling out a gun, and took no chances. In the video, he is unnaturally calm, which shows that he didn’t care …show more content…
He also states that there are too many deaths caused by the people who we are supposed to protect us and trust with our lives. Castile’s aunt says that Philando was so docile and laid back, and it was almost impossible to see him as a threatening person. His mother said that he was black and in the wrong place at the wrong time. When the video was posted on Facebook, it racked up more than one million views before it was pulled and reposted with graphic warnings. After the shooting, Reynolds was taken to jail without food or water, separated from her daughter, for over 14 hours. She said she wanted everything to be known to the public as a wake up call to the realities of what’s going on. Nobody should be imprisoned because they’re fiancee was shot. Not more than a week after the shooting, protesters started to gather around the governor's residence, Mark Dayton. He quotes that nobody should be killed for a tail light being out of function, or for being seated in a