“Five days after he tweeted about his son being detained at gunpoint by Yale campus police, New York Times columnist Charles Blow appeared on CNN to address criticism of his outcry over the incident.
Blow’s son, a third-year chemistry student at Yale University, was stopped by police at gunpoint earlier this week allegedly because he matched the physical description of a nearby burglary suspect. The incident turned into a column for Blow.
Several conservative websites discovered that the detaining officer was also black, leading them to consider the story “debunked.”
And so Anderson Cooper asked Blow directly on Thursday evening: “Does the fact that the police officer involved was african-american? does that change at the equation in your mind in any way?””* Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola (Think Tank), Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show) and Brian Unger break it down.
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*Read more here:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/charles-blow-that-my-sons-arresting-officer-was-black-doesnt-change-the-problem/
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