DIAMOND REYNOLDS: He was very laid back. He complied. He did exactly what he was told and that was only license and registrations.
LARRY ROGERS, JR.: And I would add, anything that he is suggesting was not described by the officer at the time. The officer heard what she was doing, saw what she was doing and recording. She was complying with one hand up while recording it, describing what had just happened, and he never said anything of that nature or refuted anything she described in that video.
TAMRON HALL (HOST): When you saw the news reports, and I know you have by now, the discussion that Philando had been pulled over multiple times, all misdemeanors, but that somehow his background was being pulled into the conversation. What did that do to you emotionally?
REYNOLDS: Emotionally, it definitely made me feel sad because we are not perfect. No one in this world is perfect. Everyone has made mistakes. But the mistakes you've made in your past don't determine who you are as a person. He was pulled over each and every single time, what he felt was racial profile.
ROGERS: And I'd suggest that if you look at the number of times he was pulled over, it fits the statistics that African-Americans, that's right, black males more often than white males are pulled over by the police. Black males more often than white males are likely to be searched by the police. They are two and a half times more likely to be shot by the police. So those arrests sort of bear out exactly what happened. He was, he had no -- I'm sorry, those were not arrests, they were traffic citations. He had no arrest record whatsoever. He was a person who'd been working for 15 years. So he was simply being profiled, I'd suggest, and Mayor Dayton described what he interpreted when he saw the video. That racism had something to do with this, unfortunately.
HALL: When you heard that Diamond, that a city leader would say if you were not a black couple that we would not perhaps, meaning this country, we would not have seen that play out the way it did.
REYNOLDS: I absolutely agree with him. We have said it, myself and my fiancee, have stated many times before. And I absolutely am backing him up on that. I absolutely agree if we were caucasian or minority, we would have not been stopped.
