Feds asked to investigate live-streamed death of motorist killed by cop

Editors Note: This video contains graphic content. Also, the video is a mirrored image, so it appears the victim driver is in the passenger seat.

Gov. Mark Dayton of Minnesota on Thursday asked the Department of Justice to investigate the killing of a black motorist shot by a white police officer. Philando Castile's dying moments were live-streamed on Facebook, and the incident prompted a comment from President Barack Obama.

Dayton said he wanted an "immediate independent federal investigation into this matter." The governor suggested that racism was to blame for the killing of Castile, a 32-year-old school cafeteria manager, who was shot at least four times by a police officer after being pulled over for a broken taillight in Falcon Heights.

"Would this have happened if those passengers, the driver and the passengers, were white?," Dayton told a news conference Thursday. "I don’t think it would have. So I’m forced to confront, and I think all of us in Minnesota are forced to confront, that this kind of racism exists."

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