Larry Wilmore Blasts Fox News for Defending Baltimore Police Slowdown

With violent crime on the rise in Baltimore, Larry Wilmore checked back in with the city Tuesday night and found that police there have apparently decided to stop policing. “Hey police, we didn’t say stop stopping murders, we said stop committing murders,” the host said.

Really, Wilmore just wanted to see how Fox News is “Fox-splaining” the slowdown, such as Eric Bolling asking, “What did you expect would happen” when cops are “demoralized”?

“Since when is being demoralized an excuse to not do your job?!” an outraged Wilmore asked in response, accusing Fox of saying it’s OK for cops to act like “toddlers.” But it was Kimberly Guilfoyle’s assertion that the Baltimore protests were a “lynch mob against law enforcement” that made him even more angry.

“A lynch mob? Because people protested misconduct by the police?” Wilmore asked before showing Guilfoyle what a real lynch mob looks like.

Watch video below, via Comedy Central:

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