Detroit Police Chief James Craig joins Tucker Carlson with insight on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.'
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
Spread in Washington d dot C,
there are videos everywhere,
theres violence and riot
violence like appendicitis
doesnt go away because you
ignore it. It tends to get much
worse,
theres only one that stops it
and thats good policing.
One unlikely success story and a
great one is the city of
Detroit.
Somehow Detroit has managed to
keep a lid on violent protesters
while allowing people their
first amendment rights to
demonstrate
rioters. There have not looted or
destroyed a single business in
the city of Detroit, and the city,
of course, is famous for its
devastating riots of nineteen sixty seven,
so, chief thanks, so much for
coming on
youve been coming on fairly
regularly for the past couple of
months and weve been watching
Detroit, and Detroit has this
reputation going back fifty years
its worth finding out why
you know. I appreciate your
question because I am just
ecstatic over the men and women
of the Detroit Police
Department.
One thing I learned from my time
in LOS Angeles we dont retreat
here in Detroit. We are just not
going to do it.
You saw them in the streets
where there was lawlessness and
looting and burning no sight of
police officers.
We werent giving up ground to
the radicals. We just didnt do
it.
I saw what it was like after
Rodney King, in LOS Angeles, but
not only just that detroiters
are fed up with the is a radical
protests.
Im not talking about peaceful
protesters. Im talking about
these misguided radicals that
have tried to incite violence in
our city,
so that the great police
department and great leadership-
and we said Enough- is enough:
in the last two and a half
weeks, weve had three officer involved, shootings and all three
involved shootings and all three
shootings, these violent
offense
and then a self proclaimed
misinformed and misguided it.
Leader of this radical fringe,
had the audacity to change the
narrative.
I showed the video you may be
aware.
I put the video out and it
clearly depicted the officers
that were faced with an imminent
threat to their life.
This guide today, the same
misinformed leader, is calling
for my resignation.
Detroit will have nothing of
that. So when you talk about
whats different here, we have a
city that has stood together
and by the way I know theres a
lot of conversation about the
mayors and some of these big
cities.
Our mayor stands with the police
chief and stands with the police
department that we are not going
to tolerate this uptick in
violence,
thats key
thats, real key.
This conversation
just made my night
chief Craig. Congratulations on
my success.
Transcript generated on 2020-07-31.