According to the Wikipedia article on the killing, he was stopped "for a broken taillight and because he resembled a suspect from a bank robbery that had happened four days earlier."
Also according to Wikipedia, Mr. Castile had been subjected to traffic stops 52 times by the police, although the article doesn't say over what time period, and doesn't say whether those were all by the local police department, which (they say) has 23 officers.
I don’t care if it’s 52 traffic stops over 65 years, that’s too often to be attracting the attention of the Law.
He was described as a “public nuisance” at one point. It seems very possible to me that he had a problem with authority, which finally ended in his death.
>Also according to Wikipedia, Mr. Castile had been subjected to traffic stops 52 times by the police, although the article doesn’t say over what time period, and doesn’t say whether those were all by the local police department, which (they say) has 23 officers.
He was also high on weed at the time of the stop.