APNewsBreak: Half of arrestees where Castile died are black

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Police in the suburban St. Paul area where a black man was shot and killed during a traffic stop have disproportionately arrested African-Americans, according to an analysis of data provided by the department that shows nearly half of the people arrested this year in the heavily white community were black.

The St. Anthony Police Department provided arrest and citation data in response to requests from The Associated Press and other media after the death of Philando Castile, who was shot several times by an officer in Falcon Heights last week.

Castile's girlfriend, who streamed the aftermath of his shooting live on Facebook, said in her video that Castile was complying with the officer's request to provide ID when he was repeatedly shot.

The St. Anthony police data shows that while just 7 percent of residents in St. Anthony and the neighboring towns of Lauderdale and Falcon Heights that the department also serves are black, nearly half of all arrests performed by St. Anthony officers were of African-Americans in 2016.