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07/07/2026

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06/07/2026

On July 6, 2016, 32 year old Philando Castile was driving home from the grocery store in Falcon Heights, Minnesota with his girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, and her 4-year-old daughter in the car.

Castile worked as a cafeteria supervisor at J.J. Hill Montessori School in St. Paul, where he knew hundreds of kids by name, memorized their food allergies, and quietly paid for the lunches of children who couldn't afford them. Students called him Mr. Phil.

Around 9 p.m., Officer Jeronimo Yanez pulled him over, telling him it was for a broken brake light. Castile did everything a legal gun owner is told to do. Calmly, he informed the officer: "Sir, I have to tell you, I do have a firearm on me." He had a valid permit to carry it.

Forty seconds into the stop, Yanez fired seven shots into the car. Five hit Castile. The 4-year-old watched from the back seat.

Diamond Reynolds began livestreaming on Facebook within seconds, narrating with impossible composure while Castile died beside her. Millions watched. Her daughter's voice from the back seat became one of the most haunting sentences of the decade: "It's okay, Mommy... I'm right here with you."

It wasn't the first time Castile had been stopped. He had been pulled over approximately 46 times in 13 years, accumulating thousands of dollars in fines, mostly for minor violations — a pattern his family and researchers pointed to as textbook driving-while-Black policing.

Yanez was charged with second-degree manslaughter — a rarity for Minnesota officers. On June 16, 2017, a jury acquitted him of all charges. Hours later, the city announced he would never return to the force, and it later paid Castile's family a $3 million settlement, with a separate settlement for Reynolds and her daughter.

The NRA, loud defender of gun rights, stayed nearly silent about a licensed Black gun owner killed for carrying.

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