Harry Houck has a long record of victim blaming young Black people like Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland, and now the young Black girl at Spring Valley High School who was assaulted by officer Ben Fields, all while blindly supporting their assailants.
We are sick of CNN contributor and former NYPD detective Harry Houck’s one-man crusade against Black victims of law enforcement violence. Houck’s blind support of police abuse and injustice is dangerous. It drives the attitudes and stereotypes that lead police officers to regularly commit brutal acts of violence directed towards Black folks.
Demand CNN replace Harry Houck with someone capable of discussing the state of racism and over-policing.
Dear Ken Jautz – Executive Vice President of CNN,
We are sick of CNN contributor and former NYPD detective Harry Houck’s one-man crusade against Black victims of law enforcement violence. Houck’s blind support of police abuse and injustice is dangerous. It drives the attitudes and stereotypes that lead police officers to regularly commit brutal acts of violence directed towards Black folks.
Houck's latest attacks on Black victims - insinuating that Sandra Bland is responsible for her own assault and death at the hands of the police, and stating that the Spring Valley High School student assaulted by Officer Ben Fields "had it coming" - are unacceptable.
Houck has been readily granted a national platform on CNN and has used it to deflect attention away from the crimes committed by police. Often times, his outrageous rhetoric goes unchecked by the hosts of the shows he appears on. Meanwhile the voices of families and experts on the history of racist policing are consistently dismissed, challenged by commentators or left out of the mainstream media narrative.
Houck is a key part of a media ecosystem that refuses to examine police abuse and the publicly condoned use of illegal force against Black people. The stakes are way too high to tolerate Harry Houck’s dangerous message any longer. This country has a racially discriminatory policing epidemic, and we need media contributors who can speak to that injustice, not peddle racist narratives and criminalize Black lives.
We demand CNN replace Harry Houck with someone capable of discussing the state of racism and prejudiced policing.
Sincerely,
Go here to sign: http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/CNNDropHarryHouck/?t=1&akid=4952.2161540.u07tcB
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