On Friday, Officer Yanez spoke about the shooting again, this time in a courtroom here where he is on trial for second-degree manslaughter. This week, prosecutors laid out their case against Officer Yanez, leaning heavily on Ms. Reynolds’s eyewitness account, the Facebook footage and newly released images and audio from Officer Yanez’s dashboard camera. Officer Yanez responded — calmly at first, then more alarmed — that Mr. Castile should not “reach for it.”“Don’t pull it out!” the officer shouted just before shooting seven times. They said Mr. Castile had gone beyond what the law required in telling the officer about his weapon and that Officer Yanez’s subsequent commands were unclear. Defense lawyers have sought to paint Officer Yanez as a sympathetic figure, a Minnesota native who became the first in his family to graduate from college and who dreamed of becoming a police officer.

Source: New York Times June 10, 2017 00:00 UTC