Philando Castile shot and killed by Minnesota police during traffic stop; girlfriend pleads for help on Facebook livestream (WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT)
A woman livestreamed the heartbreaking moments after her boyfriend was shot and killed by a cop Wednesday near Minneapolis.
In the Facebook video, the woman named Lavish Reynolds, claims the couple were pulled over for a busted taillight and that her boyfriend, identified by WCCO Philando Castile, was shot four or five times.
She said that he told the officer he had he was carrying a permitted firearm and was reaching for his wallet before the officer opened fire.
“Please no, don’t let him be gone. Why?!” Reynolds yelled on her video as Castile, 32, slumps back
in the driver’s seat of his car, blood running across his shirt.“I told him not to reach for it,” the cop says as he continues to point his weapon into the vehicle. “I told him to get his hand off it.”
Near the end of the nearly 10-minute clip, Reynolds begins screaming as she sits handcuffed in the back of a police cruiser with her young daughter.
“It’s OK, mama,” the little girls says as her mother asks for help from those on Facebook. “It’s OK, I’m right here with you.”
Castile, who worked as a cafeteria supervisor at a local Montessori school, later died at Hennepin County Medical Center, relatives told WCCO.
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