Wilmore Calls Out CNN for Forgetting Sam DuBose Is the Victim

Larry Wilmore has a problem with CNN’s use of this photo of Sam DuBose, the black Cincinatti man who was allegedly murdered by a white police officer pictured next to him below:

“Is that his mugshot?” Wilmore asked of DuBose. “This guy was just killed by the other guy and you put their two mugshots together like they’re a bank robbin’ team?”

“I get it, he may have had a record, but you get what victim means, right CNN?” the host added, pleading with the network to use a picture of him with his kids if he ever gets shot by police.

Perhaps even worse was the CNN commentator who claimed that the indicted officer, Ray Tensing, was “probably acting constitutionally” — right up until the point he pulled out his gun and shot DuBose in the head.

“Oh right, that little detail,” Wilmore remarked. “It takes a keen, judicial eye to see it. But yeah, we’re like 95% sure the spot where it all goes wrong is the shooting in the face.”

Watch video below, via Comedy Central:

[Photo via screengrab]

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