Cuomo Cries Racism for Philly Shooting, Downplays Knife Aimed at Cops

Nicholas Fondacaro | October 28, 2020
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As the streets of West Philadelphia were being looted and razed, CNN’s Chris Cuomo was keeping his viewers in a haze. Throughout Tuesday’s PrimeTime, he insisted the police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr. was the latest example of systemic racism by our nation’s police departments. Initially ignoring how Wallace had chased two officers around with a knife, he eventually took to huffing about the officers not having tasers. But he never mentioned that the department was defunded over the summer.

And by the way, it's not the only moment of crisis,” he proclaimed during his opening rant. “Another black man shot and killed by police in the key state of Pennsylvania. Walter Wallace Jr. The name we now must all know. Just 27, killed yesterday in front of his mom in Philadelphia. She was chasing after him, begging cops not to shoot a man who was clearly in mental distress.”

Ignoring how this person whose name we should apparently memorize had brandished a knife and attacked police officers, Cuomo tried to appeal to emotions over facts and chiding the officers.

And it is so sad. You will feel yourself watching it. You can see that the police don't know what to do. They don't know how to make the situation any different than it is unfolding. You see the mother's desperation and you feel yourself saying, ‘don't, don't, don't,’ just like his mother was,” he insisted.

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