Don Lemon has a lot to regret about his life and I’m sure his decision to have Sheriff David Clarke on his program has to be near the top of his list. Clarke destroyed him and caused Lemon to terminate the interview. Lemon said he talked to law enforcement in Baton Rouge and that they conveyed the following message to him:
“Their message is peace and coming together in the country. What’s your message?”
Never ask Sheriff Clarke, you don’t really want the answer to:
“You don’t believe that for one minute, do you?”
Here is a part of that interview provided by The Blaze:
Clearly surprised by the sheriff’s response, Lemon said, “Uh, that’s what they said to me … Yeah, I believe them.”
“Any protests over the deaths of these cops today in Baton Rouge?” Clarke asked.
“I don’t know,” Lemon said.
“Any riots or protests over the officers in Dallas, Texas?” the sheriff pressed.
“What are you asking?” Lemon asked.
“It’s a pretty simple question,” Clarke said. The CNN contributor, who will be speaking Monday evening at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, went on to voice his frustration with the way the country has responded to these recent acts of violence.
“My message,” he continued, “has been clear from day one, two years ago. This anti-cop sentiment from this hateful ideology called Black Lives Matter has fueled this rage against the American police officer. I predicted this two years ago.”
“OK, Sheriff,” Lemon said. “With all do respect, do you know that this was because of that? As a law enforcement officer?”
Sheriff Clarke never skipped a beat and answered Lemon emphatically:
“Yes, I do. I’ve been watching this for two years. I predicted this. This anti-police rhetoric sweeping the country has turned out some hateful things inside of people that our now playing themselves out on the American police officer. I wanna know, with all of the black-on-black violence in the United States of America — By the way, when the tragedies happened in Louisiana and Minnesota, do you know that 21 black people were murdered across the United States? Was there any reporting on that?”
At that point, Lemon gave up, grabbed his ball and went home.
https://youtu.be/73g7YHme304