FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. (AP) \u2013 The grandfather of the man fatally shot by police in a St. Paul suburb says his grandson was a person who stayed out of trouble.
\n\u00a0Eighty-nine-year-old Sam Castile, of St. Paul, says his grandson, Philando Castile, was a \u201cguy who went about his business,\u201d went to work and back home to his mother and sister.
\n\u00a0Castile was fatally shot behind the wheel of a car in Falcon Heights Wednesday night after he was pulled over by an officer from St. Anthony. Castile\u2019s girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds and her young daughter were also in the car, but were not injured. Reynolds says she was detained by police until 5 a.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n
The White House says<\/strong> President Barack Obama is \u201cdeeply disturbed\u201d by reports of police shootings in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and in suburban St. Paul, Minnesota. White House spokesman Josh Earnest says Obama is following the situations closely but that he can\u2019t comment more while the cases are being investigated.<\/p>\n Obama says the incidents are symptoms of broader challenges in the criminal justice system. He says they reflect racial disparities that persist \u201cyear after year.\u201d But Obama also says the U.S. must show respect and appreciation for police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. (AP) \u2013 The grandfather of the man fatally shot by police in a St. Paul suburb says his grandson was a person who stayed out of trouble. \u00a0Eighty-nine-year-old Sam Castile, of St. Paul, says his grandson, Philando Castile, was a \u201cguy who went about his business,\u201d went […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103804,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103802\/revisions\/103804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}