Daily Show apologizes to San Bernardino district attorney for 'sloppy' mistake

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (KABC) -- The Daily Show has issued an apology after San Bernardino District Attorney Mike Ramos railed host Jon Stewart for linking a Victorville man who died after a confrontation with a sheriff's deputy to police shootings across the country.

The apology came in a tweet, which owned up to the show's "sloppy" mistake regarding the death of Dante Parker.

Monday, Stewart compared Parker's death to the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri by including Parker on a list of cases of police shootings throughout the country.

Ramos criticized Stewart's comments in a video posted Wednesday to the district attorney's YouTube account.

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In the video, Ramos said Parker did not belong on the list because officers did not shoot him. Parker was Tased and died from medical complications.