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Philando Castile's GIRLFRIEND, Lavish Reynolds..SPEAKS OUT After Being Released From POLICE CUSTODY!

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• published: 07 Jul 2016
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He didn’t get a chance to say goodbye. The Minnesota woman who watched police kill her boyfriend at a traffic stop railed in an impromptu Facebook Live video against cops for shooting Philando Castile, saying there was no time for him to say any final words as he lay dying inside their pull-over sedan. “He didn’t have any last words," Diamond Reynolds said of Castile, 32. "His eyes rolled in the back of his head." “The police did this to us. The police killed him in front of my daughter,” she screamed between sobs. “The police did this to me. They took an innocent man away from us.” The live broadcast of Reynolds passionate plea was posted to Facebook Thursday morning, a day after Castile was shot dead during the traffic stop. He told the officer that he was licensed and carrying a weapon — and the cop allegedly opened fire when Castile reached for his wallet. Reynolds’ 4-year-old daughter was in the car at the time. Castile was not the girl’s biological dad, but he raised her as his own, Reynolds said. “My daughter will forever be scarred by what the police of Falcon Heights did to us,” Reynolds screamed. Reynolds also live-streamed the moments after Philando Castile was shot. The gut-wrenching video showed the tot comforting her mom, saying, “It’s OK, I’m right here with you" as her mother cried. “She is the warrior behind me,” Reynolds said of her daughter, calling the girl her "angel." Reynolds said police treated her “like a prisoner” and detained her after the 9 p.m. shooting, keeping her in custody until 5 a.m. During those eight hours, they separated her from her daughter and denied her food and water, she said. When they finally let her go, they kept her phone for evidence. “No one comforted me,” she screamed. “No one was there for me.” In Reynolds' Wednesday night live stream — which showed Castile slumped in the driver’s seat, his shirt soaked with blood — the mom claimed she and her boyfriend had been pulled over for a broken taillight while driving in the Saint Paul suburb of Falcon Heights. Castile told the officer he was carrying a permitted firearm, and then reached for his ID in his wallet before the cop opened fire, Reynolds said. “I told him not to reach for it!” the cop was heard yelling in the video, as he continues to point his weapon into the vehicle. “I told him to get his hand off it.” Reynolds said she began live-streaming the harrowing moments after the killing to document an instance of extreme police brutality. “I wanted to put it on Facebook and have it go viral so the people could see,” she said. "I didn’t do it for pity. I didn’t do it for fame. I did it so that the world knows that these police are not here to protect and serve us. They are here to assassinate us.”