Dana Loesch explains why the NRA didn’t defend Philando Castile

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A spokeswoman for the National Rifle Association indicated Thursday that the gun rights group did not defend Philando Castile, a black man who was pulled over by police and then fatally shot in 2016, because he was breaking the law at the time of his death.

Castile was shot and killed in a Saint Paul, Minn., suburb last summer by a Falcon Heights police officer, after telling the police officer he had a license to carry a firearm. But Dana Loesch, a spokeswoman for the NRA, said there were other factors that have to be considered in the case.

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