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Sen. Kennedy has two tips for Democrats to fix policing

2021-04-14 | 🔗
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.