Trevor Noah Calls Out NRA after Philando Castile Verdict, “He Had a License” [Watch]

All jokes were set aside during a segment of The Daily Show Monday night (June 19) when Trevor Noah expressed his outrage for the acquittal of Officer Jeronimo Yanez  after murdering Philando Castile with his girlfriend and four-year-old daughter in the car.

During his commentary, the South African-born television host pointed out that Castile was a hard-working citizen who had been stopped by police an 49 times in 13 years before the 36-year-old’s fatal run-in with the law.

“Every time I watch that video, I ask myself ‘just how does a black person not get shot in America?’ Because if you think about it, the bar is always moving. The goalpost is always shifting,” he said. “There is always a different thing that explains how a person got shot. Oh, the person was wearing a hoodie. Oh, the person was running away from the police. Oh, the person was going towards the police. The person was running around at night. The person had an illegal firearm the person didn’t have a firearm. But at some point, you realize there is no real answer.”

He continued, “You see this video and you hear the verdict and you go ‘how?'”

Noah then argues that Castile’s case was different from all the rest because he was a legal gun owner who had committed now crime. Because of these facts, Noah says that there’s one group “who should be losing their gotdamn minds over this,” he contended, “the NRA. But from some strange reason in this particular case, they’ve been silent. And according to their rhetoric, this is everything that they stand against, right? An officer of the state depriving a citizen of his rights because he was legally carrying his firearm?”

Noah theorizes that the NRA stands behind every citizens’ right to bear arms “unless your black,” he said.