Girlfriend (Diamond Reynolds) in the car who recorded video:
She then begins wailing about how Castile is a ‘good man’ who ‘works for St Paul Public Schools... He’s never been in jail, anything. He’s not a gang member, anything.’
‘It was a Chinese police officer that shot him,’ says Reynolds. ‘He asked him for his license and registration, which was in the back of his pocket, because he keeps his wallet in his pocket.
‘And as he went to reach, he let the officer know before he was reaching that he had a firearm on him, and before he can let the officer know anything, the officer took off shots. About four or five rounds was shot.
‘And my boyfriend, I don’t know what condition he’s in, I don’t know if he’s okay or if he’s not okay. I’m in the back seat of a police car, handcuffed... they got machine guns pointed.’
His mother:
Castile’s distraught mother said her son ‘lived by the law and died by the law’ and he worked as a cafeteria supervisor at the J.J Hill Montessorri School in St. Paul.
She tearfully told the Star Tribune outside hospital: ‘They killed my son. They took a good man, a hard-working man; he worked since he was 18 years old.’
She then added: I think he was just black in the wrong place. We are being hunted every day. It’s a silent war against African American people as a whole. We are never free.’
His family said he was a straight-A student at high school who graduated with honors.
Castile’s Facebook page depicts a young man who was politically active and enjoyed partying. HE SHARED IMAGES OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY and posted the caption ‘BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY’.
What FB page did you see? I saw pics of him with his mom.