Friday, March 29, 2024

Don Lemon Urges Biden to Speak Up About Kenosha Protests – Wants BLM to Stop Rioting [VIDEO]

*CNN anchor Don Lemon has urged democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden to speak up about the ongoing protests in Kenosha, Wis., amid calls demanding justice for Jacob Blake.

While covering the second night of the Republican National Convention, Lemon addressed the violent demonstrations that erupted in Kenosha after a white police officer shot an unarmed Blake multiple times front of his young children.

The Wisconsin Department of Justice on Wednesday identified the officer who shot Blake as Officer Rusten Sheskey.

“What’s happening in Kenosha is a Rorschach test for the entire country,” Lemon said, per Yahoo. “I think this is a blind spot for Democrats. I think Democrats are ignoring this problem or hoping that it will go away. And it’s not going to go away,” he said.

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“The problem is not going to be fixed by [the presidential election], but what they can do — and I think maybe Joe Biden may be afraid to do it — … He’s got to come out and talk about it. He’s got to do a speech like Barack Obama did about race. He’s got to come out and tell people that he is going to deal with the issue of police reform in this country.”

He continued,  “What’s happening now is happening … on Donald Trump’s watch, and when [Biden] is the president, Kamala Harris is the vice president, then they will take care of this problem,” Lemon sais. “But guess what. The rioting has to stop. … It’s showing up in the polling. It’s showing up in focus groups. It is the only thing — it is the only thing — right now that is sticking.”

Several condemned Lemon for focusing on the election instead of addressing systemic racism and the root cause of police brutality.

“Why is it that Don Lemon is holding Biden’s feet to the fire when Trump is the man in charge?” tweeted Brave News Blog’s Bianca Delarosa.

“What’s more concerning is how the media always frames the shooting of an unarmed black person around the aftermath,” writer Florence J. Tipton added. “Riots and destruction of property are more important than state sanctioned murder. Shameful!”

Hear/watch Lemon tell it via the clip above. 

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