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ST. PAUL — Last summer, only seconds after watching a Minnesota police officer shoot her boyfriend during a traffic stop, Diamond Reynolds pulled out her phone and started recording.
Shaken but steady, Ms. Reynolds told viewers on Facebook Live all that she had seen. As her camera rolled, she told the police officer, whose gun was still pointed into the car, that her boyfriend had meant no harm and had been trying to cooperate. And she checked on her 4-year-old daughter, who had watched the shooting from her booster seat in the back of the Oldsmobile.
Within hours, millions had watched her video, and the death of Ms. Reynolds’s boyfriend, Philando Castile, was international news.
This week, the officer, Jeronimo Yanez, is on trial for second-degree manslaughter, and Ms. Reynolds, 27, is back in the spotlight.
From the witness stand on Tuesday, she recounted the moment last July 6 when Officer Yanez, 29, began shooting, and dabbed away tears as prosecutors played a police dashboard-camera video from the encounter — as well as the video Ms. Reynolds had captured from inside the car.
“I felt broken, hurt, confused, lost,” Ms. Reynolds told the 15 jurors, at least two of whom…
