Overview

• On a Monday livestream of The Don Lemon Show, he addressed “white men” directly, calling them the “real issue” in mass violence and saying “something is broken.”
• He linked his monologue to recent shootings in Michigan and North Carolina, asserting that “the faces behind the trigger looks the same nearly every single time.”
• Lemon also referenced deployments of troops and National Guard to cities while criticizing narratives focused on “Chicago and black-on-black crime.”
• The clip circulated widely on social media, where critics labeled the remarks racist and some pointed to his marriage to a white man to accuse him of hypocrisy.
• Commentators cited FBI arrest and homicide statistics to dispute his characterization, arguing that the data contradicts his claims.