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Minnesota police officer Jeronimo Yanez has been dismissed as a police officer after he was acquitted of manslaughter in the shooting death of black motorist Philando Castile. The city of St ...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO) – After days of deliberation, a jury has found Jeronimo Yanez, the St. Anthony police officer who fatally shot Philando Castile during a traffic stop last summer ...
The 62-second encounter between Philando Castile and Officer Jeronimo Yanez last summer ended with Yanez firing seven shots and Castile insisting as he died in the driver’s seat that he wasn’t ...
Jeronimo Yanez was also cleared of two lesser charges in the July traffic stop in a St. Paul suburb. Jurors deliberated for about 29 hours over five days before reaching the verdict in the death ...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- Less than a week after the not guilty verdict, we got a look at key evidence in the trial of Officer Jeronimo Yanez. Police dashcam video is rolling for the entire traffic ...
Choi said he made his decision after reviewing dashcam footage of the interaction between Castile and the officer who killed him, Jeronimo Yanez. According to Choi, Castile complied with Yanez’s ...
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Court of Appeals has affirmed a ruling that barred Jeronimo Yanez, the former Twin Cities police officer who fatally shot Philando Castile in 2016, from gaining a ...
Jeronimo Yanez applied to be a substitute teacher in 2020, but his application was denied based on "immoral character or conduct." The appeals court ruled that this reason was unconstitutionally ...
The officer, Jeronimo Yanez, was charged with manslaughter but was acquitted by a jury. The shooting and Yanez's subsequent acquittal led to massive public outcry and protests in Minnesota and beyond.
In his five years with the St. Anthony Police Department, officer Jeronimo Yanez spent well over three months in training. Included in that time were 46 hours devoted to using force, another 36 ...
A use-of-force expert testified Wednesday that there was "absolutely no reason" for officer Jeronimo Yanez to believe Philando Castile was the armed suspect in a robbery days earlier, although a ...
A Minnesota board was justified when it rejected a substitute teaching license for a former police officer who fatally shot a Black man during a traffic stop in 2016, an appeals court ruled Monday.