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'Meet The Press' In Hot Water After Airing Gun Violence Video Featuring Only Black Shooters
The Huffington Post | By Adam Goldberg
Posted: 06/21/2015 8:14 pm EDT Updated: 2 hours ago

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'Meet The Press' is taking heat for a video the program aired about gun violence.

In the wake of the Charleston church shooting, host Chuck Todd introduced a video on Sunday morning featuring testimonies of convicted murderers, calling the issue "color-blind." Inmates at New York's Sing Sing Correctional Facility opened up about the regret they had after using guns. However, only black prisoners were shown.

The homogenous racial makeup of the video struck some viewers as inappropriate, especially given the apparently racially-motivated killings by a white man this week of 9 black victims at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Carolina.

'Meet The Press' panelist and Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson pointed out the apparent disconnect.

"I thought that was a very powerful piece," he said. "One small thing I would mention, because I haven't seen the whole piece, is there wasn't a terribly diverse set of people who were talking. Right now, we're talking about a horrific crime committed by a white man. We're talking about the search for two escaped murderers who are white men. So, we should point out that this is not just an African-American problem."

Todd responded that "it wasn't intended to be that way."

Users on social media also expressed frustration with the perceived tone-deafness of the video:

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