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Fox News personality Tucker Carlson sparked considerable controversy after he referred to the city of Baltimore, Maryland as "a little bit of Haiti in the Mid-Atlantic," his rant was accompanied by a chyron that denigrated the city as a "hellscape" a stone's throw from Washington, D.C.

While Carlson's critics have acknowledged issues within Baltimore–including a high crime rate that has often served as political fodder on conservative media networks–they have widely condemned his remarks, about a city with a majority Black population, as evidence of racial animus.