Tavis Smiley Battles O’Reilly on Police, Race: ‘How Many Isolated Incidents Equal a Pattern?’

Bill O’Reilly tonight went off on “cop haters” who he believes are trying to demonize all cops, when the reality is most cops aren’t bad. Of course, O’Reilly said, what Officer Michael Slager did is inexcusable, but more police training is what’s needed.

He said all the “anti-police people” and their “insane views of the world can poison actual societies.”

O’Reilly then brought on Tavis Smiley, who told him people aren’t “anti-police,” just “anti-police misconduct.” They argued over prison stats and ended up fighting over non-violent drug users being thrown in prison.

Smiley told O’Reilly that he and others need to stop calling things like Walter Scott‘s shooting isolated incidents, asking, “How many isolated incidents equal a pattern?” O’Reilly said he can’t really answer that question, and Smiley remarked, “Now you’re dodging.” O’Reilly told him it’s an “impossible question to answer.”

Watch the video below, via Fox News:

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