CNN anchor Chris Cuomo delivered a stern message to white people while discussing police reform during his show on Saturday, saying they would start caring about the topic if it was white children being gunned down. 

“Shootings, gun laws, access to weapons. Oh, I know when they’ll change. Your kids start getting killed, white people’s kids start getting killed,” Cuomo said.

CNN anchor Chris Cuomo delivered a stern message to white people while discussing police reform during his show on Saturday, saying they would start caring about the topic if it was white children being gunned down.

The Cuomo Prime Time host opened his show with a discussion on the recent mass shootings  happening around the country. As he continued to focus on gun violence, the CNN anchor brought up the recent series of high-profile police shootings, Mediaite reported.

The host mimicked a stereotypical white voice while emphasizing his message about violence against Black people.

“What is going on with these police? Maybe we shouldn’t even have police,” he said, giving white people an idea of what they would sound like if their children were gunned down. “That kind of mania, that kind of madness, that will be you.”

Continuing his passionate monologue, Cuomo said there would an immediate  change in gun laws if Black Americans started getting guns, forming militias and protecting themselves.

“You’ll see a wave of change, in access and accountability. We saw it in the 60s,” he said.

The outspoken CNN reporter evoked George Floyd, as well as the most recent cases involving Daunte Wright and Adam Toledo. 

"I wonder if you'll remember their names six months from today because they'll be replaced by so many others," the host said.

As Blavity previously reported, the officer who killed Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota last week said she unintentionally drew her handgun instead of her taser. Wright was allegedly pulled over because he had air fresheners hanging from his rearview mirror. Toledo was killed in Chicago on March. 29, with officers shooting the teen during a foot chase in an alley, ABC7 reported. 

Cuomo imitated the typical responses which follow tragic cases of police brutality.

"That George Floyd, did you  hear about him? That Daunte Wright, did you hear about him? That 13-year-old Adam, you know he was a gang banger," Cuomo said to illustrate his message. "Why do that? Because you want to make the problem them. It takes the onus off the idea that you are wrong about policing not needing to change." 

The journalist called on Americans to come together and solve the perpetual issue of gun violence.

“Us and them, us and them. There’s never a solution that doesn’t begin with we. We, the people,” he said. 

Cuomo also urged Americans to take a moment and reflect on where the country stands at the moment. 

“Take the time to consider if there is anything resembling an ‘us’ anymore," he said. "Does anyone see America the way you want her to be? Do any of you see a people with a purpose that resembles anything like the dream?”

According to The Washington Post, 982 people have been shot and killed by police in the past year. Black Americans, who account for less than 13 percent of the U.S. population, are killed by police at more than twice the rate of white people.

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