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Valerie Castile, mother of Philando Castile, points to the sky during a news conference outside the Ramsey County Courthouse in St. Paul, Minn., on Friday, June 16, 2017. A Minnesota police officer was cleared Friday in the fatal shooting of Philando Castile, a black motorist whose death captured national attention when his girlfriend streamed the grim aftermath on Facebook. (Evan Frost/Minnesota Public Radio via AP)
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John Thompson, upper right, a friend and former co-worker of Philando Castile, talks Friday, June 16, 2017, outside the state Capitol in St. Paul, Minn., about the loss of his friend and the police officer who was cleared Friday in Castile's fatal shooting last year. (David Joles/Star Tribune via AP)
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Family and friends of Valerie Castile and Philando Castile walked out of the courthouse in shock after Jeronimo Yanez was found not guilty on all counts in the shooting death of Philando Castile, Friday, June 16, 2017 in St. Paul, Minn. (Elizabeth Flores/Star Tribune via AP)
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Family and friends of Valerie Castile and Philando Castile walked out of the courthouse after Jeronimo Yanez was found not guilty on all counts in the shooting death of Philando Castile, Friday, June 16, 2017, in St. Paul, St. Paul, Minn. (Elizabeth Flores/Star Tribune via AP)
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CORRECTS SPELLINGS OF JERONIMO AND, ON SECOND REFERENCE, PHILANDO - Family and friends of Valerie Castile and Philando Castile, including John Thompson, center, walk out of the courthouse after Jeronimo Yanez was found not guilty on all counts in the shooting death of Philando Castile, Friday, June 16, 2017 in St. Paul, Minn. (Elizabeth Flores/Star Tribune via AP)
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Family and friends of Valerie Castile and Philando Castile, including John Thompson, center, wept as he walked out of the courthouse after Geronimo Yanez was found not guilty on all counts in the shooting death of Philander Castile, Friday, June 16, 2017 in St. Paul, Minn. (Elizabeth Flores/Star Tribune via AP)
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This combination of file photos show key figures in the manslaughter trial of St. Anthony police officer Jeronimo Yanez in the July 2016 death of Philando Castile. Top row from left are Ramsey County Attorney John Choi; Diamond Reynolds, the girlfriend of Philando Castile, who live streamed his shooting on Facebook; Philando Castile's mother Valerie Castile; and bottom row from left are defense attorney Earl Gray; defense attorney Paul Engh; and defense attorney Thomas Kelly. On Friday, June 16, 2017, Yanez was acquitted in the killing of Castile, a black motorist, that drew widespread attention when video of the shooting's aftermath was streamed live. (David Joles, David Joles, Shari L. Gross, Elizabeth Flores/Star Tribune and Evan Frost/Minnesota Public Radio via AP)
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FILE - In this July 24, 2016 file photo, King Demetrius Pendleton hangs a sign on the gate of the Governor's Residence next to a photograph of Philando Castile, in St. Paul, Minn. Attorneys for St. Anthony police officer Jeronimo Yanez argued in court Tuesday, April 4, 2017, that the officer cannot get a fair trial in Ramsey County, where Philando Castile was shot, because of pretrial publicity. Yanez is charged with second-degree manslaughter and two other felonies in the death of the 32-year-old Castile, who was shot in Falcon Heights in July 2016. (Scott Takushi/St. Paul Pioneer Press via AP)
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This still image taken from video by Diamond Reynolds shows a police officer pointing a gun at her boyfriend, Philando Castile, during a traffic stop on Wednesday, July 6, 2016 in Falcon Heights, Minn. (Diamond Reynolds via Associated Press)
