Don Lemon had a doozy of an interview with David A. Clarke, Jr.
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That, Clarke argued, in turn had led to the incident in Baton Rouge, La., on Sunday morning in which a suspect shot and killed three police officers and wounded three more.
Clarke blamed the Black Lives Matter movement for inspiring violent crimes against law enforcement officers, calling the group “purveyors of hate”. “I predicted this two years ago”.
The Milwaukee Sheriff has been a vocal critic of the Black Lives Matter effort, and used many cable news appearances to address what he refers to as a “phony movement”. Clarke asked Lemon, before continuing, “Any protests over the deaths of these cops today in Baton Rouge?” I predicted this two years ago”, Clarke said, “I’ve been watching this for two years. “This anti-police rhetoric sweeping the country has turned out some hateful things inside of people that are now playing themselves out on the American police officer”.
Lemon reiterated the point that Don was a journalist and didn’t need to pick a side nor answer Sheriff Clarke’s questions.
Clarke continued to rail about the movement until Lemon cut him off to take a commercial break, saying, “Are you gonna let me talk?” He claimed there was no data to back up their claims that African-Americans’ experience with law enforcement is any different than those of white Americans.
As reported by CNN, things got pretty heated between Lemon and Clarke.
“The President has been lying about it”, Clarke said.
“You have to be more specific about what data and what nonsense you’re talking about”, Lemon said.
A Milwaukee County Sheriff gave an interview Sunday where he discussed Black Lives Matter and what he described as their “hateful ideology”. When the CNN host asserted that black-on-black violence is a “separate topic” that isn’t necessarily related to the violence against police in America, Clarke had had enough.
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Social media lit up after the interview, which at times, turned into a shouting match.
