Fox News host Bill O’Reilly on Wednesday night said he was “troubled” by the Eric Garner case, as opposed to some of his fellow conservatives.
Garner died in July after being placed in a chokehold by New York City police officer Daniel Pantaleo. On Wednesday, a grand jury decided not to indict Pantaleo, whose actions were caught on tape.
“I will say, that upon seeing the video that you just saw, and hearing Mr. Garner say he could not breathe, I was extremely troubled. I would have loosened my grip. I desperately wish the officer would have done that,” O’Reilly said on Wednesday.
“Yes, he should not have resisted, but all Americans, every one of us, should pity Mr. Garner and his family,” he continued. “He did not deserve what happened to him. And I think Officer Pantaleo and every other American police officer — every one — would agree with me. He didn’t deserve that.”
In the next segment, O’Reilly brought on PBS radio host Tavis Smiley to discuss the case. O’Reilly said he didn’t think the officer had “malicious” intent when placing Garner in a chokehold, and he disagreed with Smiley that there’s an “epidemic” of police officers killing blacks.
Watch the clip via Fox News:
You’ll pardon me while I retch over Bill’s completely self serving and phony compassion and sympathy. This waste of air and space needs to take a stadium full of seats.
I am so exhausted from being angry at these fools.
Game recognizes game. One two bit hustler recognizes another. Sad that only the dead one actually provided things people had use for
First off, fuck you Bill.
Second, what he deserved was a citation and nothing more.
Just goes to show you that even a blind pig can find a truffle every now and then.
(Please, let’s not do what Dems so frequently do and go into hysterics about what a great guy O’Reilly is now that he’s seen the light. It’s unbecoming.)
Exactly. All this sh*thead says is “He didn’t deserve that.” Well, yeah, it’s on tape that he didn’t deserve being murdered. Sure, O’Reilly could’ve gone the route of Rep. King and made up some stupidness (his obesity) to justify his being murdered but why bother when O’Reilly can be self-serving.
He also claims that the cop would agree. No. really, no.