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Philano Castille’s Fiancee Calls Into T.D. Jakes’ Service Honoring Slain Police Officers
Hundreds Of Protesters Arrested
T.D. Jakes and 10,000 parishioners honor the 5 Dal- las Police officers who were fa- tally shot by a sniper.
DALLAS, TX ---- “It's gonna be OK.”
The Minnesota woman who broadcast her fiancé’s final breaths after he was shot by a cop said Sunday her 4-year-old daughter keeps echoing that phrase.
The message of hope by Dia- mond Reynolds came during a phone call into a town hall- style, three-hour Sunday service at The Potter’s House, T.D. Jakes’ mega church in Dallas.
The video of her fiancé, Phi- lando Castile, 32, dying be- hind the wheel of his car after being shot multiple times by a St. Anthony police officer, fea- tured the 4-year-old Dae’Anna
Diamond Reynolds and her 4-year-old daughter who was in the car when Philando Castille was executed by a po- lice officer.
reassuring Reynolds.
“It’s OK Mommy,” she said from the backseat. “I’m right
here with you.”
Five days after the shooting,
the child is still telling her mother that same heartbreak- ing message, Reynolds said through tears.
“My daughter is an angel. She’s definitely more stronger than I am. It’s only because of him. I believe (Castile) is in- side of her,” Reynolds said, her voice cracking.
“She hasn’t cried or anything. She just talks all positivity and keeps telling me. ‘It’s gonna be OK.’”
BATON ROUGE, LA AND ST. PAUL, MN --- In the wake of all of the past week’s shootings, protests have been breaking out all across the country, peace- fully demanding for a stop in police brutality and the declara- tion that Black lives matter.
One protest in particular was held Friday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where Alton Ster- ling was fatally shot by a police officer. As police intervened, they arrested over a hundred protestors.
Arrests include prominent activist DeRay McKesson and at least two journalists. People who were at the protest also tweeted that at least one teenager was among the arrests as well. DeRay was streaming live on Periscope when his ar- rest took place. Right before the arrest, DeRay was talking about how the police had been provoking people.
According to Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowry, DeRay said that some of their hands were tied too tight, and he was arrested with 33 others.
Around 100 protesters were taken into custody in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Protesters blocked Interstate 94 and chanted the name of Philando Castile, a 32-year-old school cafeteria supervisor who was pulled over and fatally shot by a St. Anthony police officer in Falcon Heights on last Wednes- day.
The shooting prompted out- rage nationwide — fueled in part because it was the second officer-involved shooting of a Black man in as many days, and because Castile's fiancée, Di- amond Reynolds, filmed the aftermath in a widely circulated Facebook Live video.
Reynolds said Castile, a school cafeteria supervisor, was shot five times as he reached into his back pocket to get his ID after informing the officer that he had a firearm he was li- censed to carry.
The officer involved, Jeron- imo Yanez of the St. Anthony Police Department, was placed on administrative leave, as was his partner, Joseph Kauser, according to the Minnesota De- partment of Public Safety Bu- reau of Criminal Apprehension, which is investigating the shooting.
Police said on Twitter claim that people on an overpass were "throwing objects at officers, dumping liquid on officers" and others were throwing rocks and a construction material called rebar. Police also said a molo- tov cocktail was thrown at offi- cers.
Police used smoke bombs when 200 protesters refused to leave the roadway just after midnight.
Alton Sterling and Philando Castille were both murdered by po- lice officers in Baton Rouge and St. Paul respectively.
DeRay McKesson, one of the leading #BlackLivesMatter ac- tivists was violently arrested after he was filming Baton Rouge police using excessive force on other protesters. He has been re- leased from jail.
Protesters in St. Paul, Minnesota were arrested after they blocked the highway.
In Baton Rouge And St. Paul After
Police Shootings Of 2 Black Men
Recent Shootings Believed To Be Trigger In Lone Gunman’s Attack On Dallas Officers
Micah Xavier Johnson was the lone gunman in the police shoot- ings in Dallas.
Dallas police chief David Brown and mayor Mike Rawlings.
DALLAS, TX ---- The mayor of Dallas said Friday that he be- lieved the gunman who attacked police Thursday night acted alone.
“We believe given the facts that we have today that Mr. Johnson, now deceased, was the lone shooter in this inci- dent,” mayor Mike Rawlings said in a press conference.
Rawlings was referring to a man identified as Micah Xavier Johnson, 25, who was outfitted in body armor, exact- ing maximum damage during a peaceful protest to decry the po- lice shootings of Alton Ster- ling in Baton Rouge, La., and Philando Castile in suburban
St. Paul, Minn., in the previous days.
Johnson was killed by a bomb-detonating robot.
He was a veteran of the Army, having served in the Reserve March 2009-April 2015. He served one tour in Afghanistan and was a private first-class whose military specialty was carpentry and masonry, The Telegraph reports.
According to police, during the negotiations, Johnson stated that he “was upset at white people. The suspect stated he wanted to kill white people, especially white offi- cers.”
The two shootings were fol- lowed by a protest in Dallas on Thursday night against police
use of deadly force that culmi- nated with the fatal shootings of five officersby a lone gunman.
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