CNN Anchor: National Guard In Ferguson Used The N-Word (VIDEO)

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Fresh off his reporting assignment in Ferguson, Mo., CNN anchor Don Lemon said Tuesday that one of his producers heard a member of the National Guard using a racial epithet while serving in the troubled St. Louis suburb.

While hosting a town hall called “Black and White in America,” Lemon was prompted to share an anecdote from his time in Ferguson, where the Missouri National Guard was deployed earlier this week to quell the violent protests that have erupted since the fatal police shooting of unarmed black 18-year-old Michael Brown.

“I’m just going to be honest with you,” said Lemon, who is black. “Last night, one of my producers said that they — I won’t say if it’s a he or she because I don’t want to give anyone away — said they came in contact with one of the members of the National Guard and that they said, ‘You want to get out of here because you’re white because these n-words, you never know what they’re going to do.’ True story. I kid you not. 2014, a member of the National Guard. And my producer doesn’t lie. It is a true story.”

Lemon himself had an unpleasant encounter with authorities on the ground in Ferguson. While reporting on-air on Monday, Lemon was pushed by a police officer who was trying to corral the anchor away from an area.

h/t Mediaite

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  1. Avatar for estamm estamm says:

    This is shocking! As in Casablanca shocking.

  2. Avatar for meri meri says:

    It’s like these people have never dealt with a cop (or NG or military) before.

  3. Avatar for phd9 phd9 says:

    If you live in NYC or Chicago, you might be surprised what the rest of the Country is like. Otherwise, not so much.

  4. Oh, I dunno. Scratch a Chicago cop, and you’ll find a Bull Connor underneath likely as not.

  5. I just find it funny that all of this is happening to Mr.Lemon after his comments in which he has smacked down the black community. It’s almost as if he’s never experienced racism before and has only heard of it in textbooks.

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