Another black man shot dead by white cop in Minnesota

As scores of demonstrators stormed the streets of Louisiana in protest of the killing of Alton Sterling, a black man who was shot dead by white policemen in front of a grocery store in Baton Rouge, another black man has been shot dead in the US state of Minnesota.

The video of the shooting of Philando Castile was live-streamed by his girlfriend showing him covered in blood as an officer pointed his gun at him after the victim was shot at by the police as he reached for his driving licence, she said.

Mr Castile had been stopped in Falcon Heights, a suburb of St Paul, because the car had a broken rear light, the woman, identified in local media reports as Lavish Reynolds, said.

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Before he was shot, he told the officer that he was licensed to carry a concealed gun and had one in his possession, she said.

“You shot four bullets into him, sir. He was just getting his license and registration, sir,” Ms Reynolds says in the video.

The deaths follow a long line of high-profile incidents involving African-Americans at the hands of the police, igniting a national debate about the lethal use of force.

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