Requesting more proof after watching the Spring Valley video
Lemon ended 2015 on a sour note after he suggested that more information was necessary before passing judgment on South Carolina Deputy Ben Fields, the student resources officer who dragged a black female student from her desk in October.

After video of the incident went viral, Fields was fired, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Justice Department opened a civil-rights investigation into the case.

Following his controversial remarks, Black Twitter was convinced that Lemon was trolling everyone:


Tanisha Long
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@tanishalong
Can we send Raven & Don Lemon to a secluded island where the only thing they can use for survival is their internalized racism?

11:52 AM - Oct 28, 2015
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Sarah Hagi
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When life gives u don lemon let it rot in your fridge over the course of a few months

2:29 PM - Oct 28, 2015
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Franchesca Ramsey
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I’m prepared to trade @ravensymone @donlemon and Ben Carson for @MattMcGorry. Who can help make this happen?

11:24 AM - Oct 28, 2015
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Members of the black community are tired of Lemon—so tired, in fact, that a petition to remove him from CNN received nearly 40,000 supporters. "Lemon has consistently antagonized and defamed the characteristics of African-Americans on the national scale in his mass communications," the petition says.