The gf of Philando Castile, a black colored people fatally recorded by a police officer during a website traffic stop in Minnesota a year ago, brushed aside tears Tuesday as she testified regarding moments prior to their passing.

Diamond Reynolds, which streamed Castile’s death on Facebook reside, told a packed courtroom that she experienced she must tape the encounter with St. Anthony officer Jeronimo Yanez of worry on her very own lifestyle.

“Because I know the folks are perhaps not secured by authorities,” Reynolds stated, according to NBC-affiliate KARE 11, which in fact had a reporter from inside the court. “I wanted to be certain easily was to perish facing my girl, anyone would be aware of the reality.”

Reynolds took the stand Tuesday for the next time from inside the test of Yanez, who’s faced with manslaughter for fatally shooting Castile during a July 2016 site visitors remain in a suburb of St. Paul.

Although cameras and cellphones were not let from inside the courtroom, KARE reporter Lou Ragues tweeted posts toward trial’s legal proceeding after judge adjourned. Lees verder →