HLN Blurs Out Baby-Saving Hero Ex-Cop’s ‘Trump 2016’ Shirt

A retired police officer saved a life earlier this week, attracting enough attention that Headline News decided to interview him on Wednesday. While the interview itself was fairly standard, something perplexing happened when the network re-aired it throughout the day.

Steve Eckel and Sara Mazzone were both outside a New Jersey shopping center on Monday, when they noticed a four-month-old girl left inside of a locked car as temperatures climbed into the 80s. The New York Daily News reports that after alerting employees at a nearby Kohls and calling 911, Eckel remembered that he had a sledgehammer in his car, and he broke the windows so he could get the girl out.

On Wednesday, Christi Paul interviewed Eckel on HLN to get details on the rescue, at which time he was wearing a blue pro-Donald Trump shirt. HLN re-ran the interview about an hour later, at which point the “Trump for President 2016” on Eckel’s shirt was noticeably blurred out.

Here’s the original interview, as well as a portion of the blurred-out rerun:

The Daily Caller took note of the censorship, also noting that Dr. Drew Pinsky was recently canned by the network after he brought up unsubstantiated rumors and theories about Hillary Clinton‘s health.

UPDATE – 12:25 P.M. ET: An HLN spokesman addressed the censorship in a statement today.

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