Shep being Shep.
Via Newsbusters:
During live coverage of the Baltimore riots during the 5:00 p.m. ET hour on Monday, Fox News anchor Shepard Smith scolded and mocked hosts of The Five for daring to ask legitimate questions about the violence.
Eric Bolling simply observing that the rioters were “predominantly African-American” set Smith off: “Hey, it’s a predominantly African-American community….But if we want to create larger racial tensions on the heels of this and all the recent African-American problems that we’ve seen, then we can do that. But if we’d like to look at this as a history of people having problem with police, not people of a color, but people of a community who have had problems with the police.”
Smith continued his rant: “If we want to turn this, as a nation, into something that will rile up the races, then we can do that. But it seems prudent to listen to the two sides….you get to this point, where you get no answers for eight days after a man [Freddie Gray] died for looking at somebody – eight days later, people almost feel like they have a license to ill.”