The officer who shot and killed Philando Castile makes his first court appearance today (FRI 1:30). Ramsey County Attorney John Choi is charging Jeronimo Yanez (YAH-nez) with 2nd degree manslaughter. Some say the charges don’t go far enough, but former U-S Attorney for Minnesota, Thomas Heffelfinger, disagrees…
Heffelfinger says in his opinion, the fact that the officer shot Castile seven times shows that Yanez panicked and also created a risk for Castile’s girlfriend and her young daughter, who were in the car at the time of the shooting.
Scott’s full length interview with former U.S. Attorney Thomas Heffelfinger: