As the nation stands divided over police reform and police accountability for shooting innocent Black people, CNN’s Chris Cuomo delivered a gut punch to white America during his opening statement on his news show on Friday.
Cuomo boldly suggested that police reform would only come if police officers rampantly killed white children.
How many more?” he asked. “Die of the pandemic, dying from police shootings. George Floyd, Daunte Wright. I wonder if you’ll remember their names six months from now because they’ll be replaced by so many others.”
Police reform comes when ‘white people kids start getting killed’ say Chris Cuomo pic.twitter.com/GL1BvCnVYy
— VideoMixtape.com (@VideoMixtape_) April 18, 2021
Cuomo also lambasted the folks who thought police reform was unnecessary, and he called out those who shifted the blame to the innocent victims who’ve died at the hands of racist cops.
“Why do that? Because you wanna make the problem them. Takes the onus off the idea that you’re wrong about policing needing to change,” he added.
“Forget that police are trained to deal with non-compliance with force that is not lethal. Hey, comply or die.”
And then the bold anchor raised and answered the question that is obvious to some Black people– but uncomfortable for some whites to fathom.
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Cuomo said plainly, “And you know what the answer is. You really do. You don’t like it, I don’t like it, it scares me,” he said. “Shootings, gun laws, access to weapons. Oh, I know when they’ll change. Your kids start getting killed, white people’s kids start getting killed.”
“What is going on with these police? Maybe we shouldn’t even have police,” he said sarcastically. “That kind of mania, that kind of madness, that’ll be you. That’ll be the majority because it’s your people.”
Reactions from social media were divided.
Some white people refused to see the correlation and claimed he was race-baiting.
What a race-baiting moron. Chris Cuomo: Police reform comes when “white people’s kids start getting killed”. They ARE getting killed. There just aren’t riots every time. And what about cops getting killed? No riots there either. https://t.co/6bFENg8BdM pic.twitter.com/uFzeSBcilE
— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) April 18, 2021
What a race-baiting moron. Chris Cuomo: Police reform comes when “white people’s kids start getting killed”. They ARE getting killed. There just aren’t riots every time. And what about cops getting killed? No riots there either. https://t.co/6bFENg8BdM pic.twitter.com/uFzeSBcilE
— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) April 18, 2021
By far the stupidest thing I heard today so far. Other races kids have died by the hand of police too, it doesn’t make the news. Reform is always on the table but defunding and making them go away is not.
— Heidi (@hthib1990) April 18, 2021
Such a tool. They are getting killed. They don’t make the news because they are white.
— Shadewe (@Shadewe) April 18, 2021
Race baters and racists and pro racist rhetoric. These people push racism where litt to none exists and until this stops, racism that does exist won’t end. More people default to “racist” when it’s not there because media feeds this narrtive into non racist issues
— d-mac (@dmaclaren2) April 18, 2021
Other Twitter users shut down naysayers with poignant responses.
Interesting statistic you got there that shows that 1/3 of fatal shootings in 2021 were black victims when only 13% of the population is black. Seems like the numbers are a little disproportionate
— Stephen A. Harris (@StephenA_Harris) April 18, 2021
White ppl make up around 73% of the US population, Black folks around 13%. Compare those numbers *per capita*, which Fox News is too dishonest to do, and the rate of Black folks getting murdered by cops is 3x higher than whites.
— Eleggua’s Secret Weapon (@soulfourger) April 18, 2021
Sadly your comments rate as good as a box of rocks. Cuomo is highlighting what has to happen before GOP officials actually begin to have a pulse to their ‘barely conscience’ hearts before the agree to gun reform. Obviously MAGA supporters don’t understand playing Devil’s advocate pic.twitter.com/XyXdI94Ahv
— Redheaded Dame for Democracy (@redfoxxforever) April 18, 2021
And one person posted a video that added validity to Cuomo’s argument.
— HelloDetroit ♾ (@Hellozoe66) April 18, 2021
Ultimately, Cuomo added that unity is the way to have police reform.
“Us and them, us and them. There’s never a solution that doesn’t begin with we. We, the people.”