Whoopi Goldberg Slammed for “All Lives Mattering” Police Brutality Discussion: “Can We Get a New Moderator?”

The View came out swinging with a packed show this morning, but some viewers were left feeling unsatisfied. On Monday, the co-hosts discussed a black woman who was fatally shot through the window of her home by a Fort Worth, Texas police officer. At the end of the segment — after Sunny Hostin noted that police violence disproportionately affects black Americans “four times more than white people” — Whoopi Goldberg bizarrely added that “this is a detriment to everybody,” as “it can happen to black people, it can happen to Asian people, and white people.” Goldberg’s comment didn’t sit well with many viewers, who promptly slammed her on Twitter. As one viewer asked, “Can we get a new moderator?”

“A Fort Worth, Texas police officer is on administrative leave after he shot and killed 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson through the window of her own home,” explained Goldberg at the beginning of the segment. The View‘s panel seemed shocked by the story, with Goldberg asking why the officer didn’t identify himself before shooting. “Texas is going crazy,” she added, citing other recent cases of police brutality in the state. “I have to assume that something is missing in Texas.”

“What’s going on with de-escalation training?” asked Meghan McCain. “He just shot a woman sitting and playing video games with her nephew in her home. I don’t understand it.” Sunny Hostin agreed, saying, “If you’re black, you can’t eat ice cream in your own home. You can’t go to Starbucks. You can’t barbecue while black. Now you can’t play videos with your nephew in your own home.” Now visibly upset, she continued, “Why are black people disproportionately shot four times more than white people in these United States of America? I don’t understand it.”

That’s when things got weird. Goldberg said that there wasn’t more time to continue discussing the issue today, but they will continue their conversation another day. “But what I want to say is, this is a detriment to everybody,” she added. “If it can happen to black people, it can happen to Asian people, and white people, and men and women.”

Goldberg’s closing remarks were immediately slammed by viewers, some of whom began adding “Grandma Whoopi” hashtags to their tweets. “Here you go Whoopi… I can’t with you,” wrote one viewer. “Whoopi is so privileged and more outraged at the thought of her taxes being raised than she is when it comes to black people being killed for being black,” added another. “Whoopi just All Lives Mattered the disproportionate murder of black ppl at the hands of police officers,” wrote another View fan.

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