Fireworks on CNN: NYT's Blow vs. Dan Bongino on NYPD Choking Death

Matthew Balan | December 4, 2014
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[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]

Charles Blow of the New York Times faced off with conservative Dan Bongino on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 on Wednesday over whether an inherent racial "bias" against blacks in American society fed into the controversial case of a NYPD officer choking Eric Garner to death during an arrest. Blow claimed that "society...acculturates us to fear, and...that is how the whole justice system becomes corrupted and biased....we are not always even aware that we have the bias."

Bongino, himself a former NYPD officer, ripped the liberal writer's claims as "utterly absurd." Blow cited apparent "social science" supporting his "bias" claims, and blasted the former Secret Service agent's critique as "offensive," especially in the wake of agrand jury choosing not to indict the policeman in the Garner case.