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NJ News reporter Sean Bergin reportedly suspended over comments made about ‘Young Black Men’ live on air
News 12 New Jersey reporter Sean Bergin is in hot water after comments he made during a live taping about ‘young black men’.
NJ News reporter Sean Bergin is in hot water after comments he made during a live taping.
Bergin was suspended after he argued on the air that the “anti-cop mentality that has so contaminated America’s inner cities” is largely the result of “young Black men growing up without fathers.”
Sean Bergin suspended
News 12 asked Bergin not to show up to work Monday and Tuesday as they figure out what to do next.
Somehow I knew this was coming because I was watching the segment and I was in utter shock in regards to what the reporter said.
What was he speaking about?
Bergin was speaking in regards to the murder of police officer Melvin Santiago that occurred outside a Jersey City Walgreens over the weekend.
The suspect in that case, 27-year-old Lawrence Campbell, had reportedly told a witness to “watch the news” that night because he was “going to be famous” before firing two shots at Santiago as the officer arrived in his patrol car.
In addition, when News 12 interviewed Campbell’s wife, she didn’t hold her tongue when she stated she wished her husband would have taken more police out before he was killed.
Bergin, shocked by her comment, the NJ news reporter reacted with this comment:
“We were besiged, flooded with calls from police officers furious that we would give media coverage to the life of a cop killer. It’s understandable.
We decided to air it because it’s important to shine a light on the anti-cop mentality that has so contaminated America’s inner cities.
This same, sick, perverse line of thinking is evident from Jersey City, to Newark and Patterson to Trenton.”
““It has made the police officer’s job impossible and it has got to stop. The underlying cause of all of this, of course: young Black men growing up without fathers. Unfortunately, no one in the news media has the courage to touch that subject.”
I’m not sure if young black men without father’s is to blame. I mean, other races kill police officers too. Then there’s police brutality. Police officers abusing and killing innocent people. Is it lack of father’s to blame for their actions as well Bergin?
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