[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]
Marc Lamont Hill doubled down on his theory about supposed white supremacy shaping police encounters with black people during a segment on the 4 November 2015 edition of CNN Tonight. Hill disputed the Supreme Court's decades-old "objectively reasonable" standard on the use of police force, and emphasized that "everyday citizens have biases....oftentimes, we are shaped by white supremacy. We are shaped by fear of black bodies. So, just because a jury of people have (sic) the same irrational white supremacist fear of black people doesn't mean that it's okay to shoot them. It may be legal, but it's not okay."
The leftist commentator sparred with former police officer/professor David Klinger over the controversy. When Klinger cited the case of a "white officer in Kansas City who killed a white guy who was in the process of pummeling him," Hill contended that "the 'reasonable' fear of black people is itself an artifact of white supremacy....it's black people who are afraid of black people; it's white people who are afraid of black people. And I'm saying both of those things are artifacts of white supremacy, and they're a problem."