[IChing]

Officer Yanez escorted Castile to jail for booking in November of 2011.

Years later, Yanez was assigned to investigate the store robbery which took place 4 days before he shot & killed Castile during an investigative traffic stop related to that case.

[riverrunner]

When one works in law enforcement one has contact with a lot of the same people over and over.

[MacMattico]

I hope no one takes this as against police officers. But when you have to arrest the same guy over and over again for things like child abuse, rape, meth, assault, and they are constantly belligerent and dangerous to apprehend, that “suspect” tends to lose the benefit of the doubt in possibly deadly situations. I'm not saying that's what happened in this case, I'm saying race doesn't matter when you're an habitual POS that is back out on the street doing the same stuff, the police know they have to protect themselves first.

[latina4dubya]

4 days before he shot & killed Castile during an investigative traffic stop related to that case.

related? or possibly related? was Castile involved in that robbery?

[CaptainMorgantown]

Castille had such a long record, it is remarkable that the officer had only encountered him once before.

[ExSES]

I can assure you that anyone ever employed in a Law Enforcement/Investigator position is always attuned to "Repeat Offenders" and "Likely Suspects" and, WITH DAMN GOOD CAUSE!

[Does so]

"...officer Mark Dokken pulled him over for a defective brake light...

That's impossible. The media always reports "tail light".

[mad_as_he$$]

Does anyone have a source as to where Castile’s gun was found? On him? In the car but not on him? etc..

[Fireone]

In any neighborhood, or area of a large city, there’s only a few bad actors causing 90% of the trouble. Naturally, the LEO’s working that area are going to know most of them.
In north Minneapolis, there have been about 7 families, from Chicago and Gary, Indiana, causing most of the trouble for generations. (I could name them, but not here). MPD knows them well, and good police work would direct one’s attention in their direction 90% of the time. See how that works?

[bert]

Castile was thus a serial scofflaw

[dragnet2]

So Castile was pulled over for a brake light infraction and Castile indeed had a CW permit? So passenger Reynolds was correct when she stated this on video?

Hmmm.