June 27, 2017
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*This story was updated Tuesday June 27.
CNN reports that the family of Philando Castile have reached a $3 million settlement with the city. Castile was shot and killed last year by a Minnesota police officer while his girlfriend rerecorded the gruesome scene on Facebook Live. Last week a jury acquitted the officer of all charges.
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During Wednesday’s episode of NewsOne Now on TV One, host Roland Martin and his panel, Attorney A. Scott Bolden and Greg Carr, Chair of African-American Studies at Howard University, blasted the jury after last week’s decision to acquit Jeronimo Yanez after he fatally shot Philando Castile‘s seven times in 2016.
Watch below.
TELL US: Does the panel have a point? When will ever see justice in these cases?
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Jeronimo Yanez, the Minnesota police officer who fatally shot Philando Castile during a traffic stop in 2016 has been found not guilty of second-degree manslaughter Friday. CNN reports that Yanez was acquitted of two counts of intentional discharge of firearm that endangers safety.
#PhilandoCastile's mother addresses the press after the cop who murdered her only son was acquitted.
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