DISPATCH TAPE: Philando Was Pulled Over BECAUSE OF THE WIDTH OF HIS NOSE!

Philando Castile's girlfriend says he was shot last week by a cop "for no reason at all," but there may be another clue as to why he was pulled over. ABC News has gotten its hands on police dispatch audio from the night of July 6, and on the tape (which you can listen to at the Pioneer Press), a police officer indicates he's about to make a traffic stop and that there's "reason to pull [the car] over." "The two occupants just look like people that were involved in a robbery," the cop says. "The driver looks more like one of our suspects, just 'cause of the wide-set nose." He adds, per the Star Tribune: "I couldn't get a good look at the passenger." The day before Castile's shooting, the police department disseminated photos of those robbery suspects, who were accused of stealing from a convenience store on July 2, with descriptions noting they were two black men with medium to long dreadlocks; no mention was made of estimated height, weight, or ages.

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