Just when you thought things could not get any worse in Baltimore it does with CNN trying to push a narrative that US military veterans caused the riots:
In a pathetic suck-up interview with Democrat Congressman Elijah Cummins, Baldwin never once had the moral courage to ask the failed Baltimore City congressman if the left-wing policies ushered in by a half-century of a Democrat monopoly in Baltimore might have something to do with the city’s ills. Instead, she said of young military veterans who become police officers, “I love our nation’s veterans, but some of them are coming back from war, they don’t know the communities, and they are ready to do battle.”
The context was a discussion about increased training and retraining for the Baltimore police. [Breitbart]
Does she even know how many people in the Baltimore police department are veterans? Then those that are veterans how many have even deployed or seen combat? You would think a news reporter would do some basic fact checking before making such a sweeping statement. Here is how she tried to initially rationalize what she said:
Folks. Please don't misunderstand me. Dear friends/family of mine are veterans. I was repeating a concern vocalized to me lately. That's it.
— Brooke Baldwin (@BrookeBaldwin) April 28, 2015
So if someone made a inappropriate sweeping statement about the rioters with no facts to substantiate it would she vocalize that as well? Since then she has been forced to apologize on air for the remark.
What is ironic about this is that it is the military veterans in the National Guard that had to come in to restore order.
