Gutfeld on CNN anchor's coverage of officer-involved shootings
'Gutfeld!' panel analyzes the media's role in the Derek Chauvin trial and police reform debates
CNN anchor Chris Cuomo doubled down Monday on his remarks suggesting that "White people's children" would have to be killed in order for police reform to take place.
"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," Cuomo said on Friday night.
CHRIS CUOMO SAYS THERE WON'T BE POLICE REFORM UNTIL 'WHITE PEOPLE'S KIDS START GETTING KILLED'
Critics slammed Cuomo's remarks, many pointing out that statistically, police kill more White people yearly than Black people.
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld called attention to Cuomo's remarks in his monologue Monday night, saying the CNN host "almost sounded like he wasn't the privileged wealthy brother of a governor."
"And what brilliance. His solution to police brutality? More police brutality. It's like that diet where you get healthy by eating tons more ice cream and pizza. But since he suggested White kids might need to be killed by cops, maybe he will cover it if it actually happens. Because right now, he would ignore that since it doesn’t fit the narrative that police brutality is only racial. But if Chris' comments strike you as thoughtful, you've been struck by a brick during a peaceful protest and have brain damage. Because just a few short months ago — I am so tired of playing this clip, but we have to — remember, he mocked concern for victims of violence," said Gutfeld.
On Monday night, Cuomo doubled down on his comments.
"This has become the battleground for the ugliest politics of division," Cuomo began. "I don't know if you were watching Friday night, but I said something that every one of you knows to be true. If what we're seeing in these communities were happening to kids in suburbs, to adults in suburbs- if they suffered the same fate as we see too often with these Black kids, if they died in policing situations, things would change."
The "Cuomo Prime Time" host then listed other issues like drugs, which he suggested in poor neighborhoods is blamed on "bad families" while treating it as a "crisis" in the suburbs.
"Do you know how many Black girls go missing every year? They don't become household names. They're not the center of major manhunts like they are when they're affluent Whites," Cuomo said.
He even mentioned the coronavirus pandemic and how it became a crisis when the outbreak impacted "middle and upper-class communities" after the poor were "hit hard," though he failed to mention how he reportedly personally benefited as the younger brother of Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who gave the CNN anchor prioritized COVID testing in the early months of the pandemic while ordinary New Yorkers struggled.
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"It's obvious, right? No, it is only for the reasonable," Cuomo told viewers. "The rabid right, it was weaponized as a threat what I said. 'See? They want your kids to die, they want White kids to die to end policing problems.' Now look, on its face, that's absurd. I'm White. Why would I want that?"
"But this is not about the facts. It's about fear," he added.
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