No, this was something different from the front seat of Castile’s car, with him already shot, life already spilling out of him. This was finally a play-by-play on what it’s like to be black and defenseless against trigger-happy cops, streamed live, soon to be posted on Facebook for the world to see.
This was the official play-by-play on another black life that apparently didn’t matter in America.
We got chilling commentary this time from Castile’s fiancée, Diamond Reynolds, in the aftermath of the shooting, Reynolds looking into her phone and calmly and eloquently describing a nightmare, the kind that now happens twice in two days in this country. You can easily find this video, could find it on Wednesday night; see it begin with blood all over Castile’s white T-shirt. He is still alive. It is here that the camera, in a snuff film all too tragic and all too real, finds Ms. Reynolds’ face as she says, “They killed my boyfriend.”
She says that Castile told police that there was a gun in the car, one that she says he was licensed to carry. She says that he was simply reaching for his wallet when a cop started shooting. With her in the car. With her daughter in the backseat. None of these shootings are the same, of course. Except for this: Another black man ends up dead, this time in the front seat of his car.
You see a cop’s gun pointing through the window. You hear Diamond Reynolds:
“You shot four bullets into him, sir.”
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