PROTESTERS gathered in the US city of St Paul yesterday morning after police shot dead a black man on Wednesday after pulling him over for a broken brake light.

School cafeteria supervisor Philando Castile was shot in the Minneapolis-St Paul area of Minnesota as he reached for his driving licence — not the handgun he was licensed to carry.

His girlfriend Diamond Reynolds captured the incident on her mobile phone camera as Mr Castile bled to death in the car while police held him at gunpoint.

“He was trying to get out his ID and his wallet out of his pocket,” she said. “He let the officer know that he had a firearm and that he was reaching for his wallet, and the officer just shot him in his arm.”

“I told him not to reach for it! I told him to get his hand off!” a police officer yells in the video.

Ms Reynolds’s four-year-old daughter was in the car and is heard crying in the background.

Around 200 protesters gathered at the official residence of state governor Mark Dayton in the small hours of yesterday morning.

The latest death came just a day after two police shot dead black man Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, while they had him pinned down.

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards asked the US Justice Department to lead a civil rights investigation into the killing.
“I have very serious concerns. The video is disturbing, to say the least,” he said.

Sandra Augustus, an aunt who helped raise Mr Sterling after his mother died, spoke to hundreds of sombre protesters on Wednesday night.

She said a second video that emerged showing the moments before her nephew was shot left her angry.