Reporter Out After Controversial Commentary About Blacks

By Chris Hoenig


New Jersey TV reporter Sean Bergin is out of a job after blaming a cop killer’s race for the outrage he received after interviewing the man’s wife.

Bergin, a freelance reporter with cable news outlet News12, filed a report on Sunday about the shooting death of a 23-year-old rookie police officer outside of a Jersey City pharmacy. At the end of the piece, Bergin included a commentary in which he blames “the anti-cop mentality that has so contaminated America’s inner cities” on “young Black men growing up without fathers.”

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