It’s been three days since Minnesota NBC affiliate Kare 11 aired the police scanner recording where in the minutes before shooting Philando Castile, officer Jeronimo Yanez said this:
“I’m going to stop a car,” the officer says on the recording. “I’m going to check IDs. I have reason to pull it over.”
“The two occupants just look like people that were involved in a robbery,” the officer says. “The driver looks more like one of our suspects, just ‘cause of the wide set nose,” the officer continues.
A minute and a half later, the recording captures the first report that there was a shooting.
No major national media outlet has yet covered the story and its obvious importance for revealing the racial profiling leading up to the shooting — Not CNN, ABCnews, CBSnews, MSNBC, the New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post, etc.
What has been in the news are the disinformation propaganda claims that the shooting was not about race, put out by Yanez’s lawyer:
St. Anthony Police Officer Jeronimo Yanez was reacting to "the presence of that gun and the display of that gun" when he opened fire on Castile, Minneapolis attorney Thomas Kelly told The Associated Press. He declined to elaborate on how Castile displayed the weapon or what led up to the deadly traffic stop.
Yanez "was reacting to the actions of the driver," Kelly said. "This had nothing to do with race. This had everything to do with the presence of a gun."
Thus far only a few blogs have picked up the story of the police scanner recording:
Gawker, The Root, Hello Beautiful, and a North Carolina ABC affiliate, and a few others.
Please use social media and contact mainstream media outlets to cover this story and get the truth out.
[The police scanner audio recording can be heard in this video]