CNN Anchor Smacks Down Ex-cop On Live TV For Calling Chicago Blacks 'You People'

CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin called out the network's law enforcement analyst, Harry Houck, on Tuesday for referring to a black activist from Chicago as "you people."

After Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that he had fired Police Supt. Garry McCarthy over fallout from Laquan McDonald's shooting, Baldwin asked Houck and NAACP Youth President Stephen Green for their reaction.

Houck took the side of the outgoing police chief, saying that Emanuel should have been made to resign instead.

"This mayor should be impeached, he should resign," the former NYPD detective opined. "The National Guard should go into Chicago, take that city back from the thugs."

Green explained that activists had called on the Justice Department to do a "top-down investigation over the overall patterns and practices of the Chicago Police Department."

"This isn't new," he pointed out. "When you have a police department that has its own domestic Guantanamo Bay [Detention Center], when you have neglect on the South Side of Chicago, when you have cases that go unheard as it relates to young black children and queer and transgender voices, we have a problem in the city of Chicago."

Houck charged that Green was refusing to call for Emanuel's resignation because both men were Democrats.

"Aren't you tired of dead black children on the streets of Chicago?" Houck exclaimed at Green. "Not from cops, but from thugs shooting at each other?"

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