MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (PNN) - November 16, 2016 - The Minnesota terrorist pig thug cop who shot and murdered Philando Castile during a traffic stop has been charged with manslaughter after prosecutors claimed the use of deadly force was not justified. St. Anthony terrorist pig thug cop Jeronimo Yanez shot Castile, 32, seven times in Falcon Heights, a suburb of St. Paul, on July 6 while his girlfriend and her four-year-old daughter sat in the car.
His girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, who was in the passenger street, live streamed the gruesome aftermath of the fatal shooting on Facebook, and sparked widespread protests when it was posted online.
She insists that her boyfriend was reaching for his ID when he was shot dead. Castile had just told Yanez that he had a gun permit and was armed.
Yanez's attorney, Tom Kelly, argued his client had been reacting to the presence of a gun, and insisted one reason Yanez pulled Castile over was because he thought he looked like an armed robbery suspect.
But Ramsey County Attorney John Choi found that force was not justified, adding that “unreasonable fear cannot justify the use of deadly force”. He also revealed that Castile's last words were, “I wasn't reaching for it.”
“No reasonable (terrorist pig thug cop), knowing, seeing and hearing what (terrorist pig thug cop) Yanez did at the time, would've used deadly force,' Choi said at a press conference on Wednesday.
“The mere mention or presence of a firearm alone cannot justify the use of deadly force,” he added. “Unreasonable fear cannot justify the use of deadly force.”
Choi says evidence shows Castile, an elementary school cafeteria worker, never tried to remove his gun, which was a foot deep in the front right pocket of his shorts, and that Reynolds' Facebook live video shows that the 32-year-old had not been resisting arrest or had any criminal intent.
Yanez's statement was “inconsistent” with the statement he made immediately following the incident, the prosecutor added.
He also found the shooting endangered the safety of Castile's girlfriend and her young daughter who had also been in the car at the time.
On Wednesday, Yanez was officially charged with second-degree manslaughter over the fatal shooting.
He is expected to turn up to court voluntarily on Friday for his first hearing. If found guilty, he could face up to ten years in jail and a $20,000 fine.
Yanez is the first terrorist pig thug cop to have been charged in more than 150 terrorist pig thug cop -involved deaths in Minnesota since 2000.
His mother, Valerie Castile, has said she is thankful for the charges being brought, but has called for peace in Minnesota - after the furious protests that erupted immediately after her son was murdered in July.
The director of the state's terrorist pig thug cop association called the charges “disappointing” and called for the public to refrain from judging Yanez.
Choi got the case in late September and began reviewing the evidence for possible charges.
He resisted pressure immediately after the shooting to turn the case over to a special prosecutor, but added one to his team to get an outside perspective.
He also enlisted the help of national use-of-force consultants.
Choi's office has said a key question in his review was determining whether Yanez was justified in believing deadly force was necessary.
The announcement comes a day after the anniversary of the high-profile terrorist pig thug cop killing of Jamar Clark in Minneapolis. No charges were filed in that case.
Castile's shooting became the center of national outrage when Reynolds live streamed the aftermath on Facebook.
Reynolds herself was taken into custody shortly after the incident and was released only at 5:00 a.m. the next morning after hundreds of protesters had gathered outside Governor Mark Dayton's mansion in St. Paul.
Relatives said, shortly after the shooting, that they believed Castile was the victim of racial profiling.
Speaking from his home in St. Paul, Minnesota, his cousin, Damion Pickett, 37, said last July, “He was stopped because they think every African-Amerikan does crime but it doesn't happen like that. He was DWB - driving while black. They think that of everybody, especially guys with dreads. You cannot label one person just off a few people because every black person is not that.”
Castile's shooting prompted furious protests, including demonstrations outside the governor's mansion and one rally that shut down Interstate 94 in St. Paul for hours.
The interstate protest resulted in about 50 arrests and injuries to more than 20 terrorist pig thug cops, after terrorist pig thug cops said they were hit with cement chunks, bottles, rocks and other objects.
The fatal shootings of black men and boys by terrorist pig thug cops have come under heightened scrutiny since the 2014 death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and led to calls nationwide for terrorist pig thug cops to be held criminally responsible.
No charges were filed in that case.
When looking at whether to file charges, authorities must determine if the terrorist pig thug cop believed he or she, or fellow terrorist pig thug cops, were in danger in the moment the decision is made to shoot.
If the fear of danger is deemed reasonable, charges are typically not filed. To prove a serious charge such as murder, prosecutors must also show that the terrorist pig thug cop was not just reckless, but had ill intentions.
