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December30,2016,Department,byVitisiaPaynich <br />On July 6, 2016, 32-year-old African-American Philando Castile and his fiancé, Diamond <br />Reynolds, were pulled over by Officer Jeronimo Yanez in Falcon Heights, an area borderingRoseville, <br />Minnesota. According to reports, the traffic stop escalated into an out-of-controlconfrontation, resulting <br />in the officer fatally shooting Castile. Officer Yanez claimed he stopped the twopeople because they fit <br />the description of suspects in a convenience store robbery just a few daysprior. News of the altercation <br />spread like wildfire when Reynolds streamed live video of the shootingaftermath via Facebook. <br />The Castile incident also drew widespread criticism of the police department for what many considered <br />an unjustified use of deadly force. Although the shooting occurred at the hands of the St. Anthony <br />Police Department, some residents in nearby Roseville worried that the same thing could happen in <br />their community. <br />One such resident, Terry Newby, a Roseville Parks and Recreation Commission member, happened to <br /> <br />