Castile was stopped 46 times between 2002 and the day he died. Of all of the stops, only six of them were things a police officer would notice from outside a car — things like speeding or having a broken muffler.

On July 6, Castile was shot to death by Falcon Heights police officer Jeronimo Yanez. Castile’s partner Lavish Reynolds told her audience on livestream that they had allegedly been pulled over for a broken tail light. However, police audios were later released showing officer Yanez’s real reason for pulling over Castile’s car was "the driver looks more like one of our suspects, just ‘cause of the wide set nose" he had.