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In California, Vallejo police have released body cam footage of Willie McCoy’s killing, which shows the 20-year-old asleep in his car before police open fire.

The footage is consistent with claims of McCoy’s family, who said officers did not try to wake him or talk to him before shooting, my colleague Sam Levin reports.

The footage shows:

• That officers did not try to wake McCoy up or talk to him after they spotted a gun in his lap, and instead pointed their firearms at his head directly outside the car as he slept for several minutes.
• The officers then appeared to make a plan to fire at him, with one saying, “If he reaches for it, you know what to do.”
• McCoy eventually started to move, scratching his shoulder and not yet appearing alert or saying anything to officers, and several seconds later, all six officers fired at him.

Police officials did not give the family or their attorney a heads-up about their decision to release the video today, according to the attorney.

Some of the footage, which is extremely disturbing, is included in with article below. The video will not start playing automatically. It is located part-way down the article page.

Read an in-depth profile of McCoy’s life, and hear his friends speak on video about their memories of him, here.

Save this one for your weekend read: Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke is holding his first rally in his hometown of El Paso, Texas, on Saturday. Ahead of the event, the Associated Press has a revealing profile of O’Rourke’s relationship with El Paso, and with Ciudad Juarez, the Mexican city just across the Rio Grande.

The profile highlights some important tensions between O’Rourke’s current rhetoric and his record:

• “Though now he calls for tearing down the border walls that have stood between El Paso and Juarez in some form since the 1970s, O’Rourke voted just last year to approve new border barrier construction.”
• In 2008, O’Rourke also cast a key vote that some El Paso residents say allowed the city to displace poor Mexican families from some of the city’s oldest neighborhoods. “He has charisma for people who don’t know him,” said Angie Martinez, a 74-year-old, retired school cafeteria worker. “But here we know the truth.”

The profile details how O’Rourke took Amy Sanders, the woman he would later marry, on a blind date to Juarez as a “test.” It also includes an astonishing anecdote from O’Rourke’s sister, Charlotte, about the early signs of O’Rourke’s ambition.

At one point, when she was considering becoming a teacher, her brother sat down and presented a very different vision for what she should do with her life. It was “this big spiel about how I am going to be this amazing, like, politician who’s going to change El Paso….And I was like, ‘Uh-huh. Uh-huh,’” Charlotte O’Rourke said. “Now I always say, ‘Oh, he was talking to himself that day.’”

Read the full profile here.

That’s the latest line from the president holding a press conference at Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Florida.

The pool reporter at Mar-a-Lago says:

News conference begins at 4:20 pm. Trump seated on sofa beside Linda McMahon. He announces she is resigning as Small Business Administration director and is going to help with Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign.

“This is an outstanding woman. Who has done an outstanding job,” Trump said.

Trump says he will nominate her successor in a short time.

The president also says he has a lot of confidence in AG Barr. Again calls Mueller investigation a hoax and says he has nothing to hide.