Louisiana Senator emphasizes the importance of family and education in reducing crime rates on 'Hannity'
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Democrats continue to
Democrats continue to
rush to judgment, exploiting
tragic officer involved,
shootings before any facts are
fully known to fuel vicious
anti cop Frederick.
We have lost over one hundred police
officers this year.
They vilify officers regularly.
Vice President Harris saying
folks will keep dying if we
dont fully address racial
injustice and inequalities in
our country from implicit bias
to broken systems.
Is this proven to be what
happened Madame Vice president
in Minnesota,
some Democrats, congresswoman
Tlaib, is one
they want to abolish the police
altogether.
That prompted Louisiana
Senator John Kennedy to say I
guess next time you get in
trouble, call a crackhead
joining us now Senator Kennedy
Senator it raises a fundamental
question.
Lets imagine the squads vision
is reality.
Okay,
somebodys breaking into your
house, wants to bring harm to
you and your family.
Who are you going to call?
What are you going to do?
I know what im going to do
im pretty sure. I know you well
enough that you know you would
do
im going to call a cop.
I think most people would,
you may not believe in God
you may not believe in guns,
but if somebody breaks into your
house
it might be too late
senator if youre waiting for a
cop,
it might be too late
yeah.
Well, if they break into my
house, I mean I have weapons to
defend myself
in terms of this entire
discussion about police officers
and race, it seems to me I can
tell you what I believe Sean
I dont think most or even many
Americans are racist.
I dont think most Americans
even think that much about race,
I think they think about
character.
I dont think that most cops are
even many cops are racist.
In fact, many of our police
departments are majority
minority.
I think they do the best they
can
the horrible incident that
happened north of Minneapolis. I
think it was yesterday that Dan
and Geraldo were discussing. I
was thinking as they were
talking and I hope nobody got
stabbed in the last segment
as they were talking. I was
thinking how many interactions
did police officers in this
country yesterday have with the
american people.
My guess is that it was in the
thousands tens of thousands
this instance that happened. It
was just horrible.
It was horrible for the person
killed for the persons family,
its horrible for the police
officer.
I think we owe it to ourselves
and to them to lets just wait
and try to get the facts about
what happened.
It doesnt appear to me that the
officer did it intentionally
and im, not pretending to be a
criminal lawyer and say she
committed this crime or that
crime,
but I think we owe it to all of
us ourselves and them to wait
and lets just get the facts,
but I meant what I said
if you think you know one
other quick point: when a
radical muslim jihadist blows up
a school were always told,
dont judge
all people of the muslim face by
the acts of a few, and I agree
with that.
How come the same rule doesnt
apply to police officers
and thats? Why? I said if you
hate cops just because there
cops im, not defending bad
policing, but if you hate cops is
because there cops then youre
wrong and next time you get in
trouble, just call a crackhead
and see how that works out. For
you
senator we have the
body cam footage.
I will tase you.
I will tase you
taser taser taser.
We here at discharge and Holy
Schiff. I just shopped
there guy.
I do believe in something called
due process.
The city manager got fired for
saying that even Joe Biden got
something right and he said it
too.
We need a full investigation.
This officer of twenty five years
deserves due process.
We talk about a fog of war.
This was an instance where
somebody was out on bail,
firearm, offense.
This person attempted resisted,
arrest and attempted to flee.
I dont know if its similar but
adrenaline was flowing.
Do you see that thats a
possibility that this was in
fact an accidental discharge,
of course,
but lets cut to the chase here?
Sean
instead of cursing the darkness?
Why dont we try lighting a
candle.
This debate lets call it like.
It is,
this is a debate about crime and
its relationship to race
thats. What this is about,
just as its a statistical fact
that more men than women commit
crimes, just as it is a fact,
statistically that more young
people than older people commit
crimes. It is a fact some ethnic
groups have higher crime rates.
Why
poverty?
Okay!
Nobody wants to be poor
if my democratic friends really
want to solve this problem,
theyll do two things:
theyll help us clean up some of
our inner city schools and stop
them from being failure.
Factories
number two well have a frank
discussion in this country about
family formation and the fact
that a child,
a single parent to six times
likely to grow poor than the
child of a two parent household
im, not saying that a single
mother cannot be a good parent
im, not saying that
im saying that the two incomes
are better than one.
If you want to do something
about poverty,
senator, let me
interrupt you for a second.
I want to bring something up.
We now have seen these deep blue
states run by Democrats for
decades. Cities run by Democrats
for decades, we pay more per
capita for a child on the
education, with the worst
results.
If you look at the cities that
are that are less safe and
secure,
Rudy Giuliani showed you could
clean up New York City
theres a way to do it and you
save lives by doing it,
it could be duplicated in places
like Chicago
they dont do it.
I would argue that if we care
about our national treasure our
children in every town in every
city, we owe it to them to keep
them safe and secure with law
and order, and we owe it to them
that they get a quality
education
that has not happened.
They have failed spectacularly.
Excuse me, im. Sorry,
you know what I would do in
New York. If I were king for a
day tomorrow,
I would take all of the money
that state and local government
puts up for elementary and
secondary education, and I would
go to the parent or parents of
every child in a city or F
School in New York, and I would
say, heres a check, take it
and go spend it at any school.
You want to
lets, have vouchers
lets have charter schools
lets have competition;
it will make public schools better.
It will help break the cycle of
poverty.
You will see. Violence is common
and learning is rare,
so often its determined by
zip code.
The people who need an education,
the most are in the worst
possible schools.
I dont see how my democratic
friends cant possibly want to
keep people trapped in failure.
Factories
ive got to run.
Transcript generated on 2021-04-15.