Jon Stewart has apologised to a San Bernardino D.A. on Friday after including a local incident where a man died in custody after he had been detained using a Taser in a longer list of police shootings of black men.

The notoriously forthright talk show host made the error in a segment aired on Monday’s ‘The Daily Show’ (December 1st), where he wryly mocked political commentators for denying that the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson was part of a wider national trend in which black men were being shot unjustifiably by police.

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Jon Stewart mistakenly included a San Bernardino Tasering incident in a list of police shootings

"This is an isolated incident, like the police shoting of Tamir Rice in Cleveland, or Dante Parker in San Bernardino County, or Kendrec McDade in Pasadena," Stewart said sarcastically.

But Michael Ramos, San Bernardino County’s District Attorney, criticised Stewart strongly for getting his facts wrong about the Parker case, saying that the coroner’s report ruled that he died from a combination PCP intoxication and cardiovascular disease, not from anything that the police did.

In a four minute video clip, Ramos said “they had their facts all wrong. He talked about sheriff’s deputies shooting Dante Parker in our county. He was so wrong about those facts. They did not shoot him; they Tasered him.”

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Ramos also appeared to criticise the kind of coverage that the wider topic is getting in the national media, asking “We lead the state in California of officers being killed in the line of duty; why isn’t anybody protesting and marching about that?”

Stewart apologised over Twitter on Friday, saying: “You’re right re Dante Parker. Sloppy to put him in our list of shootings.” But not before adding “wider point still stands.” A formal apology will come on this coming Monday’s ‘The Daily Show’.

Stewart is known to be particularly impassioned about this topic generally, appearing upset on Wednesday’s show after a Grand Jury in New York declined to indict Justin Damico for the illegal chokehold that resulted in the death of Eric Garner.

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