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The issue with what Rosenberg did is the platform he did it on. He's a white guy on a white station with white co-hosts who have no idea who the kid was outside of he was a rapper. So the first thing that then comes out of his mouth is something demeaning his character, intentionally or not, a picture gets painted that the black rapper kid deserved getting gunned down because he was no angel.
I understand why he said it, but he was a kid who talked about dying a lot and he had several violent incidents in his past. He wasn't Lecrae.
So Joe needed to provide context of what else he said.