I saw this live. I finally found some of the video to show. Actually, I found it three times, but in each example they cut out the part I was looking for. This one is a poor quality – and you can’t quite see Sharpton bent over laughing too well – but I think you’ll get the gist – and it’s not just Al Sharpton.  The look on Crumps face was, well, priceless… *UPDATE* Found a better quality video below
Here’s the way it was set up.  It needs to be set up.
For the preceding 15 to 20 minutes CNN’s Don Lemon was seated on a stage, under a tent, waxing sympathetically about the depth of grief and mourning inside the church which was the backdrop to his broadcast. Various pundits were sharing their grief and discussing how Mike Brown had found Jesus, and how just prior to his death he was preaching the gospel -and the word of God- amid the community.
As Lemon is sharing his thoughts on the despair, tears in his eyes, he pauses… (Probably…because the producers prompted {in his ear} the family was about to speak). Don Lemon says “let’s listen in”:
[Cue this video to EXACTLY the 1:40:30 mark to see what they cut to]


[CNN stayed on air with this until the 1:43:10 mark LIVE – then the TV screen went black. As in “dead air”. Programming never returned.]

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