Well, if you are in one of the black sections of Philadelphia, and the neighborhood is full of criminal animals—which I am afraid is true of a large part of Philadelphia, then what he said was perfectly true.
And in part, at least, they are criminal animals because they have been taught—by rappers, by friends, by the culture—that this is what black kids do. It’s how they express themselves.
Still, it’s not very tactful to put it that way. Maybe they should have suspended him for a week. Fire him? Well, I kind of hope this smug little itty-bitty girly journalist gets mugged and needs a policeman sometime soon. Then maybe she’ll learn what it’s all about.