CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin Confuses Two Unarmed African-American Victims of NY Police

CNN Senior Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin on air today mixed up the cases of two black men, one of whom was shot dead by New York police, and the other who was assaulted and sodomized by NYPD officers.

Toobin was discussing the forthcoming Ferguson grand jury verdict and how the 1999 case of Diallo, in which New York police officers shot at this unarmed man 41 times, resonated with him so much. Toobin pointed out that the officers ended up acquitted and how “that’s more common than not” in such cases.

The only problem was that Toobin used the name Abner Louima–– who was assaulted by officers after being arrested for assault himself––by accident, and corrected himself both on Twitter and later on-air:

Thanks for corrections to my error on @CNN. I meant Amadou Diallo, not Louima. I will correct the record on air as well.

— Jeffrey Toobin (@JeffreyToobin) November 24, 2014

Watch Toobin’s original comments and on-air correction here, via CNN:

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