Geraldo: "I Bet You To Understand Anguish In Families Of Color"

RIVERA: “I beg you to understand the anguish in the families of color who are watching the news on a nightly basis looking at their child and worrying when that child goes out that that child may never come back, and fearing the cops, not the way so many in other neighborhoods, people look at the cops. ‘Oh, what a relief, there’s the police officer.’ That’s not the case in many areas in this country and all the protests that you saw last summer. We have emphasized the riots and the looting and condemned them appropriately, but that represents a real reflection of the anguish and rage about police violence that’s out there. When you see this video and they parse it, and then if you continue the video, I don’t think we’ve shown it, and you see the 13-year-old kid with special needs and no father at home, to answer Sean’s point, bleeding from his mouth as his life goes out — if we, the most respected news organization in the nation, perhaps, don’t recognize the anguish of the people watching the 13-year-old’s life going out of his body, then we don’t deserve the ratings. We don’t deserve it. We have to be sensitive to the way they see life.”