After returning from his assignment in Ferguson, CNN anchor Don Lemon reported that one of his producers heard a member of the National Guard using racist language to describe protesters.
Lemon hosted Black and White in America, and said “I’m just going to be honest with you, last night, one of my producers said that they — I won’t say if it’s a he or she because I don’t want to give anyone away — said they came in contact with one of the members of the National Guard and that they said, ‘You want to get out of here because you’re white because these n-words, you never know what they’re going to do.’ True story. I kid you not. 2014, a member of the National Guard. And my producer doesn’t lie. It is a true story.”
Lemon experienced an encounter with Ferguson police when he was on air. He was pushed by an officer who was attempting to keep the anchor away.
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