Sean Hannity invited Stephen A. Smith on his show today to talk about two things: That time he got suspended from ESPN for seemingly blaming women for domestic abuse, with Smith acknowledging that he should have used better words; and the recent events in Ferguson, Mo.
“I was listening to your comments, and it seemed like you kind of, maybe, had joined the chorus [saying] this police officer is guilty,” Hannity accused, recounting a group of eyewitnesses, and then repeated a (contradicted by CNN) claim that Officer Darren Wilson had a fractured eye socket, “so maybe he couldn’t shoot better.”
They kept arguing over whose testimony was right until Smith, who’d kept cautioning that the facts of the case needed to be examined before he could rush to judgement, decided to turn the questions onto Hannity. “You like to talk, so this shouldn’t be a problem. Here’s the deal: I understand your argument, but can you honestly say it would have taken six bullets to stop him if he’s unarmed?”
Hannity admitted that he didn’t understand why Brown was shot six times, but offered up an explanation: “If [Wilson] had an orbital eye socket fracture, that, to me, explains him being hit three times in the arm, and once in another place, to stop a pretty big kid from coming at him.”
“But what I’m saying to you is that you’re not a black person with that history in Ferguson, and it’s hard to fathom that it takes six bullets to stop somebody,” Smith responded. “Which is why you see people in an uproar, because they find that hard to believe.”
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