I can’t believe we’re seeing actual journalism from CNN, particularly from Don Lemon whose only purpose on the network seems to be from keeping one extra suit jacket from landing on the floor.
They could’ve stopped their report after the first comments from the first interviewee.
It happens to be a white officer on a black man and the common call a lot of times is to call it a racist situation. Don’t get me wrong, it does happen. It has happened here in Cambridge. And I can’t say it will not ever happen again in Cambridge. This situation right here was not a racial motivated situation.
Notice he didn’t deny that profiling happens, and didn’t deny that it isn’t a problem that’s solved. He pointed out that this example, however, is not a case of profiling.
Obviously. I’m glad someone else said it.
And the female officer who spoke last really drove home a hell of a point…
LEMON: When you heard about what happened with this sergeant, what did you think?
KING: I was appalled. I know Jimmy. I have known him for more than 11 years with the Cambridge police. I knew him when he worked for Harvard. I know him to be a good police officer, a good man with character, and I knew these charges were bogus. There has been a tremendous rush to judgment. And I think the thing to be earned first and foremost from this is to look at all of the evidence, to consider all, to weigh all. I think Professor Gates has done a very good job of filling up a very effective smoke screen calling race into this. It had nothing to do with it.
LEMON: And the president?
KING: It’s unfortunate. I supported him. I voted for him. I will not again. I agree that I think it’s admirable that he would speak on behalf of his friend, but he should have refused himself. He should have stepped back and he should have said, I support my friend, but I don’t have all the facts. I won’t weigh in yet.
LEMON: And the governor?
KING: I would apply the same to him.
So a black woman and a black man both think the Governor and President stepped over the line in their zeal to attach the scarlet letter of racism to a cop doing his job.
Ain’t that something?