CNN’s Brooke Baldwin Blames Vets Becoming Cops for Police Violence; ‘They’re Ready to Do Battle’

Curtis Houck | April 28, 2015
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See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog.

CNN’s Brooke Baldwin suggested during the Tuesday afternoon edition of CNN Newsroom 
that U.S. military veterans who become police officers were to blame for the recent string of violence involving police officers in that they return home “from war” and are “ready to do battle.”

While speaking with Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings (Md.), Baldwin recalled a conversation with a Baltimore City councilman about police officers not living “in the communities” they represent when she remarked that: “I love our nation's veterans, but some of them are coming back from war, they don't know the communities, and they're ready to do battle.”

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