CNN anchor Fredricka Whitfield said on-air on Sunday that she “misspoke” when describing a gunman who attacked a police headquarters in Dallas as “very courageous and brave, if not crazy as well.”
Whitefield made the comment on Saturday while covering James Boulware’s attack on the cops, which ended in his death by sniper fire.
“It was very courageous and brave, if not crazy as well, to open fire on the police headquarters, and now you have this scene, this police standoff,” she said.
On Sunday, CNN media correspondent Brian Stelter called the statement “outrageous” and “shocking” and that it generated outrage online among people who think “channels like CNN take an anti-police tone.”
At the end of a segment later Sunday, she addressed her comments.
“I misspoke, and in no way believe the gunman was courageous, nor brave,” she said.
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