CBS Bizarrely Frets Over New Laws to Protect Police from 'Hate Crimes'
By Brad Wilmouth | May 28, 2017 | 7:05 PM EDT
On CBS This Morning Saturday, as the show covered proposed new laws to protect police officers from hate crimes, correspondent Tony Dokoupil and anchors Alex Wagner and Anthony Mason all oddly seemed to worry about whether it was appropriate to call it a "hate crime" to attack a police officer. During the report, Dokoupil even asked if the term "hate crime" would be "cheapened" if police offers came under hate crime protection.
And in a short discussion after the pre-recorded piece concluded, after Wagner mused, "It really calls into question the definition of 'hate crime' and bigotry," Dokoupil injected: "It can be a hateful act, and yet not a hate crime."
At about 8:30 a.m. ET, co-anchor Wagner began to introduce the segment by referring to a "debate" about the issue:
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