Marc Lamont Hill, a CNN contributor who’s been widely seen on other nationally televised broadcasts, took umbrage at the characterization of police who overreach authority as “bad apples,” saying law enforcement as a whole is much more pernicious.
Hill was a panelist on “CNN Tonight” when host Don Lemon played a clip of his interview with a woman who claimed to be a friend of a police officer who detained Freddie Gray, the black Baltimore man who died at hospital from injuries he suffered around the time he was arrested. Lemon asked the woman if the incident was rooted in racism and she responded: “That’s a fair question. Are there some bad apples? Yes. But you can have racism and be black.”
Hill then weighed in on her comments and the Baltimore affair.
He said: “I’m saying no to the bad apple part. We can’t continue to frame law enforcement and the police forces in America as simply a bunch of good-natured people and there happen to be a few bad apples among them. That’s not the right analysis. That’s not to say that police officers at the individual level aren’t great people. I know some great people who are police officers. I play basketball with them. I might drink with them. But it’s something about the job itself and the structure of law enforcement in America that becomes an occupying force.”
Hill then repeated: “They’re an occupying force in the hood.”
His comments come just two days after he said in a separate CNN interview with Lemon the burning of Baltimore was due to “righteous rage … because the police killed Freddie Gray,” Philly.com reported.
Hill also said then: “There shouldn’t be calm tonight. Black people are dying in the streets.”
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