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CNN Anchor Apologizes After Calling Zetas “Gang Members”!!!

<div><span style&equals;"-webkit-text-size-adjust&colon; auto&semi; background-color&colon; rgba&lpar;255&comma; 255&comma; 255&comma; 0&rpar;&semi; text-decoration&colon; -webkit-letterpress&semi;">CNN anchor Erin Burnett publicly apologized to Zeta Phi Beta inc&period; the other day after she &ast;accidentally&ast; referred to a group of women from the sorority as gang members&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div style&equals;"text-decoration&colon; -webkit-letterpress&semi;"><span style&equals;"-webkit-text-size-adjust&colon; auto&semi; background-color&colon; rgba&lpar;255&comma; 255&comma; 255&comma; 0&rpar;&semi;"><br &sol;><&sol;span><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div style&equals;"text-decoration&colon; -webkit-letterpress&semi;"><span style&equals;"-webkit-text-size-adjust&colon; auto&semi; background-color&colon; rgba&lpar;255&comma; 255&comma; 255&comma; 0&rpar;&semi;">What happened was as she was describing the many types of people who had shown up to protest for Freddie Gray&comma; she mentioned &nbsp&semi;that Crips were also there and for some reason the camera cut to the Zetas&excl; Awkward&excl;&excl;<&sol;span><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div style&equals;"text-decoration&colon; -webkit-letterpress&semi;"><span style&equals;"-webkit-text-size-adjust&colon; auto&semi; background-color&colon; rgba&lpar;255&comma; 255&comma; 255&comma; 0&rpar;&semi;"><br &sol;><&sol;span><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div style&equals;"text-decoration&colon; -webkit-letterpress&semi;"><span style&equals;"-webkit-text-size-adjust&colon; auto&semi;">Burnett left this on air statement as an apology&colon;<&sol;span><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div style&equals;"text-decoration&colon; -webkit-letterpress&semi;">&NewLine;<blockquote><p><span style&equals;"line-height&colon; normal&semi; -webkit-text-size-adjust&colon; auto&semi; background-color&colon; rgba&lpar;255&comma; 255&comma; 255&comma; 0&rpar;&semi;">&&num;8220&semi;A brief note on a segment from earlier this week&colon; We talked with Baltimore Reverend Jamal Bryant about a community town hall he was hosting on Tuesday&period; He stressed the importance of gang members attending&period; Immediately after that interview&comma; we showed a live picture of the town hall&period; I noted the reverend said gang members were attending&comma; along with other members of the community&comma; members of the sorority Zeta Phi Beta were shown in that live picture&period; We’re sorry if anyone got the impression we were calling that sorority gang members&semi; that wasn’t our intention&period; Zeta Phi Beta&comma; by the way&comma; is a 95-year old organization which right now is distributing supplies to seniors in Baltimore&comma; cleaning up the city&comma; and getting ready to host a meeting on youth and law enforcement&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"color&colon; rgb&lpar;0&comma; 0&comma; 0&rpar;&semi; font-family&colon; Helvetica&comma; Arial&comma; sans-serif&semi; line-height&colon; 24px&semi; -webkit-tap-highlight-color&colon; rgba&lpar;26&comma; 26&comma; 26&comma; 0&period;301961&rpar;&semi; -webkit-text-size-adjust&colon; auto&semi; background-color&colon; rgb&lpar;231&comma; 231&comma; 231&rpar;&semi;"><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div style&equals;"text-decoration&colon; -webkit-letterpress&semi;"><span style&equals;"-webkit-text-size-adjust&colon; auto&semi; background-color&colon; rgba&lpar;255&comma; 255&comma; 255&comma; 0&rpar;&semi;"><br &sol;><&sol;span><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div style&equals;"text-decoration&colon; -webkit-letterpress&semi;"><span style&equals;"-webkit-text-size-adjust&colon; auto&semi; background-color&colon; rgba&lpar;255&comma; 255&comma; 255&comma; 0&rpar;&semi;">Roommates&comma; do you think it was an accident on Erin&&num;8217&semi;s part or do you think she did it on purpose and is backtracking&quest; Leave us some comments&excl;<&sol;span><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div style&equals;"text-decoration&colon; -webkit-letterpress&semi;"><span style&equals;"-webkit-text-size-adjust&colon; auto&semi; background-color&colon; 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