CNN anchor Don Lemon is getting backlash online for a peculiarly-placed 'obviously' during his Ferguson broadcast.
While describing the scene across the street from the Ferguson Police Department, Lemon was asked by Anderson Cooper to share the sights, sounds, and apparently, smells of the escalating protests.
'Just a couple seconds ago, we heard a gunshot,' he explains of the scene, which was filmed live after prosecutor Robert McCulloch announced that Officer Darren Wilson would not be indicted for the fatal shooting of Michael Brown.
'People started running this way and there are a couple police officers in the crowd,' he continues.
'Obviously, there's a smell of marijuana in the air, as well,' he adds, before going back to the news about gunshots.
Later in the night, a protestor camera-bombed Lemon's stand-up to say a choice word about CNN.
Anderson Cooper/ CNN reporters putting this is perspective 'almost everyone is peaceful'.. Don lemon 'obviously I smell Marijuana ' wtf- Russell Simmons (@UncleRUSH) November 25, 2014
'Obviously, there's the smell of marijuana' -- CNN's Don Lemon, not crystal clear on which senses television conveys.- James Poniewozik (@poniewozik) November 25, 2014
Don Lemon-'obviously there's the smell of marijuana'. Why is everything that comes out of his mouth always have to be offensive?!?!- your cinnamon apple (@shanicegeorge) November 25, 2014
'Obviously, there's the smell of marijuana in the air.' - Don Lemon, an actual human being who lives in the same planet as you.- not a white man™ (@NotAllBhas) November 25, 2014
(h/t Gawker)
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