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It’s going to be interesting to see how CNN’s Don Lemon plays this.
A day after the liberal anchor ignited his own controversy by blaming the kidnap and torture of a mentally disabled white man by a gang of sadistic black thugs on “bad home training,” video has surfaced of one of the suspects brandishing what appears to be a rifle and using extremely crude language in making explicit threats, at least one racially charged.
Meanwhile, the victim’s family came forward with a request that was almost unbelievable.
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The newly surfaced video was posted on YouTube Oct. 22, and showed the man, identified by the New York Post as Tasfeye Cooper, 18, pointing the gun several times directly at the camera. At one point, he says, “BOOM, put a bullet in your white skull.”
Check it out here. But be warned, it’s very graphic.
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According to Chicago police, Cooper, 18-year-old Jordan Hill, and sisters Brittany Covington, 18, and Tanishia Covington, 24, are charged with committing a hate crime, aggravated kidnapping and aggravated battery for torturing their victim in a brutal session that was livestreamed on Facebook Tuesday.
According to The Associated Press, the victim and his family thought he was attending a New Year’s Eve sleepover with Hill. It got much uglier.
The video sparked national revulsion on its own hideous merits, but the reaction of liberal talking heads like Lemon, who led a disgraceful panel discussion about the attack on Wednesday night, was almost as disgusting.
The morally blinded Lemon couldn’t agree that the abduction and torture of another human being – by perpetrators crying “F*** Donald Trump” and “F*** white people” should even be considered an act of “evil.”
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Where, Lemon wondered, were the families of these attackers?
Well, America found out where the family of the victim was, at any rate. In a news conference, attended by what appeared to be numerous relatives of the victim, brother-in-law Brian Boyd expressed gratitude for the victim’s return, and then asked something most people couldn’t image – prayers for “all involved,” including, presumably the monsters who staged this horrendous attack.
Check out WGN’s coverage here.
As a comparison of two classes of Americans goes – as a comparison of two classes of humanity goes – the differences in the two videos couldn’t be more stark.
In the video purported to be of the suspect Cooper, a wild-eyed, possibly drugged man swings an apparent firearm and threatens to kill the people watching. In the Boyds’ news conference, a composed man quietly expresses gratitude for the return of a loved one, and apparently asks viewers to pray for men and women who decided torturing a helpless, special-needs innocent was a great way to start the year – and proud enough of it to put the malevolence on social media.
A column published by The Washington Post on Thursday implied that the worst aspect of the gruesome torture video would be encouraging supporters of President-elect Donald Trump to think the worst of America’s criminals.
The October video of a torture suspect threatening to put a bullet in the head of an anonymous “white skull,” might just seal the deal.
Unless Don Lemon can come up with another excuse for it.
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