Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton suggested Thursday that race played a role in the death of Philando Castile, a 32-year-old school cafeteria manager “Would this have happened if the passengers were white? I don’t think it would have,” said Dayton “All of us in Minnesota are forced to confront that this kind of racism exists” Castile was shot and killed during a traffic stop Wednesday evening when he was pulled over for a broken taillight