CNN Criticized for Allowing 'Hands Up' on the Air

By Albert Lin


CNN is facing criticism from some corners of the Internet for allowing four if its commentators to show support during a Saturday broadcast for demonstrators protesting against the Michael Brown and Eric Garner grand-jury decisions.

After running photos and videos of demonstrators in New York City and Washington, D.C., Sally Kohn said, “We want you to know that our hearts are out there marching with them.” Then she and cohosts Mel Robbins and Margaret Hoover put their hands upin the familiar Hands Up, Don’t Shoot posewhile their fourth cohost, Sunny Hostin, held up a sign that read “I CAN’T BREATHE.”

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