On June 13 , 2015 , while discussing the 2015 attack on the Dallas police headquarters , host Fredricka Whitfield referred to the gunman , James Boulware , as " courageous and brave , if not crazy " . The comment received immediate backlash and calls for her to apologize . The next day , Whitfield stated on air that she misspoke and in no way believed the gunman was courageous or brave . After the backlash continued , she issued another on-air apology on June 15 , saying she terribly misused those words , now understood how offensive it was and was sincerely sorry
2015 attack on the Dallas police headquarters
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