{"id":446822,"date":"2021-04-23T18:20:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T22:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=446822"},"modified":"2021-04-23T18:21:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T22:21:02","slug":"cuomo-lemon-double-down-in-defense-of-officer-who-shot-makhia-bryant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cuomo-lemon-double-down-in-defense-of-officer-who-shot-makhia-bryant\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuomo, Lemon Double-Down In Defense Of Officer Who Shot Ma\u2019Khia Bryant"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcuomo-lemon-double-down-in-defense-of-officer-who-shot-makhia-bryant%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=446822&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3517.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Both Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo maintain their stance on the shooting of 16-year-old Ma\u2019Khia Bryant, doubling-down on their assertion that the Ohio police officer had little choice but to shoot her in order to protect a black teenage girl.<\/p>\n<p>During a segment on Thursday night, Cuomo and Lemon agreed that not every police shooting in America should be treated with a broad brush and that people need to look at the evidence before making snap judgments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot treat all police shootings in the same way,\u201d asserted Lemon, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/nicholas-fondacaro\/2021\/04\/23\/cuomo-lemon-nbc-committed-malpractice-not-showing-knife\">Newsbusters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re absolutely right. We can\u2019t do that,\u201d responded Cuomo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re 100 percent not equal. And the poor mom that you had on, I feel for her, but not every police shooting is the same, and we have to look at the evidence and what we know,\u201d added Lemon.<\/p>\n<p>Lemon noted that if the officer did not react in the time that he did, the young girl who Bryant was assaulting could have been killed, resulting in two tragic deaths instead of one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it was like seven seconds, seven or nine seconds that the officer had to react. It is tragic. It is terrible. But, imagine if the woman in the pink was your loved one, and the officer didn\u2019t do what he did,\u201d said Lemon. \u201cYou could be mourning the death of that woman, that young lady in the pink.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To those who assert that the police officer should have shot Bryant\u2019s leg, Lemon noted that police have to fully neutralize a person once they are in the process of potentially killing another person. While he agrees with debates about how police should be deployed in given situations, he did not see how this situation fits into the narrative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs it stands now, that\u2019s what it is,\u201d Lemon said. \u201cAnd people, you know, \u2018shoot in the leg.\u2019 People don\u2019t stab people with their feet. They\u2019re stabbing with their arms and their upper body. So, the officer is shooting to neutralize the threat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd, again, everyone\u2019s \u2014 what about a taser? Tasers don\u2019t always work in these situations,\u201d said Lemon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTasers don\u2019t always work, full stop,\u201d added Cuomo.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, \u201cThe View\u201d co-host Joy Behar openly disagreed with Don Lemon, arguing that the police should have shot the air.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy feeling is, I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s true or not. I really can\u2019t figure it out anymore,\u201d Behar said in response to Don Lemon.<\/p>\n<p>Behar said that there is \u201csomething wrong\u201d if the only solution to someone potentially killing another human is to use deadly force.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, it seems to me in a situation \u2014 this is what it looked to me. And I looked at the tape and still can\u2019t figure it out,\u201d she continued. \u201cShoot the gun in the air as a warning. Tase a person. Shoot them in the leg. Shoot them in the behind. Stop them somehow. But if the only solution is to kill a teenager, there\u2019s something wrong with this. There\u2019s something very, very wrong with the way these things are being conducted. Even if the cop had to do it, there\u2019s something wrong with it. I can\u2019t explain it any better than that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added, \u201cWe keep talking about this over and over again, and kids still keep getting shot. It\u2019s like the gun issue in this country. People keep getting shot, and nothing ever gets done about it. It\u2019s [a] very frustrating conversation to have. I can\u2019t add much to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/joy-behar-ohio-cop-should-have-shot-the-air\">Joy Behar: Ohio Cop Should Have Shot The\u00a0Air<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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