Turns Out, the 3 a.m. Wake-Up Call...

won't be related to foreign affairs...

It will be a domestic incident here at home.

A crowd of about 200 protesters turned up outside Gov. Mark Dayton's residence in Saint Paul, Minn. at 3 a.m. demanding for him to "wake up" and speak to them. They shouted "No Justice? No Peace!", and video shows them chanting Philando Castile's name again and again in a show of unity.

A man outside the Governor's mansion wrote on Twitter: "We're protesting at the governor's mansion. The police sent two delegates to make peace. They brought their guns."

And the incident -- or the direct aftermath -- will be televised:

The police officer, audibly panicky and afraid, continues to point his gun at Castile, and at one point screams 'I told him not to reach for it!'

The eyewitness in the vehicle remains calm as she confronts him: "You told him to get his ID, sir."
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'I told him not to reach for it!' the cop screams, sounding close to tears. 'I told him to get his hand up.'

America First -- is that really such a bad thing, confronting and policing our own problems before we attempt to fix the world?

ADDED: Heartbreaking details about the deadly aftermath:

'Oh god, don't tell me he's dead,' they eyewitness says. 'Please don't tell me my boyfriend just went like that... please don't tell me that he's gone.'

The cop tells her to keep her hands 'where they are, please' and she agrees, but then goes back to chanting about her boyfriend's possible death. 'Please don't tell me this Lord, please Jesus, don't tell me that he's gone.'

'Please officer don't tell me that you just did this to him. You shot four bullets into him, sir,' she says, her voice finally beginning to crack with emotion. 'He was just getting his license and registration, sir.'
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In the video, the 4-year-old daughter of the eyewitness is glimpsed a couple of times.

Towards the end of the video, as she begins screaming in anguish, her daughter says 'It's okay. I'm right here with you.'

Bearing witness...

The children will miss him, no doubt:

A website for J. J. Hill Montessori Magnet School lists Phil Castile as its cafeteria supervisor.

Clarence Castile, Philando’s uncle, told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that his nephew had worked in the school’s cafeteria for 12 to 15 years, “cooking for the little kids.”

ALSO: The dead man's mother asks an important question:

Valerie Castile described her son as a “laid back” and “quiet” man who worked to provide for his family.

“He’s not a gang banger; he’s not a thug,” she told CNN. “He’s very respectable and I know he didn’t antagonize that officer in any way to make him feel like his life was in danger.”

She said she assumes her son did have a firearm with him because “that was something that we always discussed” but that he had a license for it. She said she always taught him to “comply” with law enforcement.

“The key thing in order to try to survive being stopped by the police is to comply,” she told CNN. “Whatever they ask you to do, do it. Don’t say nothing. Just do whatever they want you to do. So what’s the difference in complying and you get killed anyway?

FINALLY:

“Y’all please pray for us,” the eyewitness says at the end of the video.

“I ask everybody on Facebook, everybody that’s watching, everybody that’s tuned in:
please, pray for us.”