Baltimore Mayor, Maryland Governor Walk Off Interview with CNN’s Don Lemon
Late Monday evening, CNN’s Don Lemon arrived in Baltimore and questioned the city’s mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan. How’d it go? Well, let’s just say he repeatedly provoked the two over their respective responses to ongoing riots in the city, and eventually the frustrated pair just walked away.
Lemon grilled the mayor and the governor for about 11 minutes, asking them why their law enforcement response has been seemingly slow and clumsy. The CNN reporter also attempted to drive a wedge between the two, repeatedly asking why the governor did not activate the state’s National Guard earlier — a move which relies solely on a request from the city’s mayor, who did not do so until Monday afternoon.
As the conversation dragged on, it became clear that both the mayor and governor were annoyed with the line of questioning. When Lemon asked how they intend to enforce a curfew while also shutting down schools (meaning more young people on the streets), Hogan and Rawlings-Blake turned away from Lemon and removed their microphones, unceremoniously ending the interview.
After they’d departed, Lemon described them as “touchy.”
Watch below, via CNN:
And, of course, there’s already a Vine of the final walkoff:
