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Mark Dayton: Would this have happened if those passengers and the driver or the passenger were white? I don't think it would he.

On the recordJuly 6, 2016
Would this have happened if those passengers and the driver or the passenger were white? I don't think it would he.
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Mark Dayton

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Governor Mark Dayton questioned whether the police shooting of Philando Castile would have occurred if the individuals involved were white.

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