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>> COULD THIS BE THE WAY TO END
AMERICA’S CRIME CRISIS.
PHILADELPHIA’S PROGRESSIVE D.A.
LARRY KRASNER TRYING TO FEND OFF
AN EFFORT BY REPUBLICAN
LAWMAKERS TO IMPEACH HIM OVER
THE CITY’S EXPLODING CRIME RATE.
SINCE HE TOOK OFFICE IN 2017,
MURDERS HAVE JUMPED 78%.
IN THE LATEST LUNACY FROM HIS
OFFICE SAW A CONVICTED KILLER HE
EXONERATED AND LET OUT OF PRISON
NOW WANTED IN CONNECTION WITH
ANOTHER MURDER.
HE SAYS ATTACKING HIS POLICIES
IS PART OF A REPUBLICAN PLAY
BOOK.
>> STRAIGHT UP, THIS IS AN
EFFORT TO IMPEACH SOMEONE FOR
POLITICAL PURPOSES WHO HAS DONE
NOTHING CORRUPT AND NOTHING
ILLEGAL BECAUSE THEY WANT TO
ERASE PHILADELPHIA’S VOTES, PART
OF THE REPUBLICAN PLAY BOOK AS
YOU WELL KNOW IS TO POINT A
FINGER AT LARGE, DIVERSE CITIES
AND SAY LARGE, DIVERSE CITIES
ARE LAWLESS.
WHAT WE SEE HERE IS THE SAME OLD
PLAY BOOK, WHICH IS ABOUT CODED,
RACIST MESSAGING, ABOUT BLAMING
THE BIGGEST CITY IN PENNSYLVANIA
WITH THE MOST DIVERSE POPULATION
FOR HAVING THE SAME NATIONAL
STRUGGLE THAT WE HAVE WITH GUN
VIOLENCE EVERYWHERE.
>> THAT COMES AFTER PRESIDENT
BIDEN OFFERS HIS MOST CONFUSING
COMMENT YET ON RISING CRIME.
>> AHEAD OF THESE MIDTERMS HOW
BIG AN ISSUE IS CRIME?
>> I THINK IT IS A REAL ISSUE
AND WE HAVE A GREAT RECORD ON
IT.
>> JESSE, SEEMS LIKE KRASNER IS
MORE UPSET WITH THE QUOTE
REPUBLICAN PLAY BOOK THAN
CONVICTED MURDERER HE EXONERATED
COMING BACK AND MURDERING
SOMEONE ELSE.
>> Jesse: HE THINKS HE IS A
MOVIE STAR.
THE STATE LEGISLATURE ASKED HIM
TO TESTIFY BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
ABOUT HIS CRIME POLICIES AND HE
TURNED THEM DOWN, THEN HE FLEW
FROM PHILLY TO HARRISBURG AND
WENT TO THE CAPITOL STEPS AND
HELD A PRESS CONFERENCE AND
CALLED THE REPUBLICANS RACIST,
SAID THEY WERE PURSUING A
SOUTHERN STRATEGY.
REPUBLICANS ARE UPSET BECAUSE A
WHITE DEMOCRAT D.A. IS LETTING
BLACK PEOPLE KILL EACH OTHER AND
THAT’S RACIST.
THAT’S LARRY KRASNER’S THEORY
THERE.
LARRY KRASNER LET OUT A GUY WHO
RAN OVER A WOMAN AND HER BABY
DAUGHTER KILLING THEM, LET HIM
OUT ON BAIL, THEN HE WENT UP AND
SHOT A HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
PRACTICE.
LARRY KRASNER HAD A GUY THAT WAS
IN PRISON FOR MURDER AND HE HAD
AN INTEGRITY UNIT LET HIM OUT,
NOWESQUE CHARGED WITH ANOTHER
MURDER AND ANOTHER THAT’S ON THE
LAM.
HE IS THE WORST D.A. IN THIS
COUNTRY AND DESERVES EVERYTHING
COMING TO HIM.
>> JUDGE, THIS ISN’T JUST ABOUT
REPUBLICANS, IT IS REAL VICTIMS
THAT ARE VICTIMS OF CRIMES,
WOMEN RAPED ON PUBLIC
TRANSPORTATION.
WE SAT DOWN TO TALK ABOUT CRIME
AND SAFETY.
LISTEN TO THAT AND GET YOUR
TAKE.
>> HOW MANY WOMEN FEEL IT IS
SAFE FOR THEM TO PUMP YOUR GAS
HERE?
NO HANDS.
WHO FEELS IT IS UNSAFE.
YEAH.
AND IT IS NOT JUST THE WOMEN.
DEFUND THE POLICE MESSAGE HURT
THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA AND
CRIME ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.
RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU BELIEVE
THE DEFUND THE POLICE MESSAGE
HURT US.
>> YEAH.
LAWRENCE SAID ALL OF THOSE
PEOPLE PLAN TO VOTE FOR
REPUBLICANS, JUDGE.
>> Jeanine: FIRST OF ALL, LARRY
KRASNER IS INEPT, HE IS A LIAR,
HE SHOULD NOT BE D.A.
HE SHOULD BE THE PUBLIC
DEFENDER.
LARRY KRASNER TO STAND UP THERE
AND SAY THAT THIS IS ABOUT
ERASING VOTES, IT HAS NOTHING TO
DO WITH THAT.
ONE OF THE CRIMES THAT JESSE
TALKED ABOUT, ONE OF THE MURDERS
THAT LARRY KRASNER, WHAT IS IT,
HIS, I THINK CONVICTION
INTEGRITY UNIT DECIDED TO
RELEASE SOMEONE WHO HAD BEEN
CONVICTED AFTER A JURY TRIAL,
AND THEN HE GOES OUT AND KILLS
AGAIN.
THE FIRST MURDER, JESSE, WAS
WHEN THIS GUY GOES OUT AND HE
KILLS A MAN, A FATHER, IN FRONT
OF HIS FIVE-YEAR-OLD SON POINT
BLANK, IN FRONT OF HIS SON, TWO
DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS, AND
KRASNER’S CONVICTION INTEGRITY
UNIT DECIDES THIS IS A MAN THAT
DESERVES MERCY.
THIS IS A UNIT SUPPORTED BY
FETTERMAN.
LOOK, THE DEMOCRATS OWN THIS
CRIME CRISIS IN THE UNITED
STATES.
THEY OWN IT.
PEOPLE LIKE KRASNER SHOULD BE
GONE.
GEORGE GAS CONE, ALVIN BRAG, TAR
SELL CLARK, ALL THESE
PROGRESSIVE D.A.s DO NOT BELONG
IN THOSE JOBS.
EVERY WOMAN I KNOW NOW IS AFRAID
TO WEAR JEWELRY, AFRAID TO DRIVE
A GOOD CAR, AFRAID SHE’S GOING
TO BE FOLLOWED HOME, AND THERE
ARE LEGITIMATELY GOOD REASONS TO
BE AFRAID, AND IT IS BECAUSE
DEMOCRATS DECIDED THAT’S THE WAY
TO GO FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE WHICH
NO ONE DEFINED.
I STILL DON’T KNOW WHAT SOCIAL
JUSTICE IS.
>> OBVIOUSLY PEOPLE ARE BEING
KILLED, THE WORST OF IT, THIS
ALSO HAS A NEGATIVE ECONOMIC
IMPACT.
STORES ARE CLOSING IN PLACES
LIKE PHILADELPHIA, WASHINGTON,
D.C. BECAUSE IT IS TOO
DANGEROUS, THEN OF COURSE THE
COMMUNITIES THAT LIVE THERE HAVE
LESS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY TO
BETTER THEIR COMMUNITIES.
>> RIGHT.
I AM AS CONCERNED AS ANY AS TO
THE HUMAN TOLL AND THREATS
PEOPLE FEEL FOR THEIR SAFETY.
I DON’T VIEW IT AS A DEMOCRATIC
OR REPUBLICAN PROBLEM.
IT IS A NATIONAL CHALLENGE.
WE HAVE POOR THINKING,
INEFFECTIVE INDIVIDUALS THAT
HAPPEN TO BE DEMOCRATS IN SOME
OF THESE JOBS.
THIS D.A. IS RIGHT IN ONE
REGARD.
I DON’T KNOW IF YOU CAN IMPEACH
HIM IF HE DIDN’T DO ANYTHING
CORRUPT, THEY SHOULD DO ANYTHING
THEY CAN TO GET HIM OUT OF
OFFICE.
JESSE, YOU SAID IT WELL.
SOMETIMES YOU TRY TO BE
POLITICAL AND COY, YOU WERE
RIGHT, HE WENT TO HARRISBURG AND
SAID THAT THEY WERE RACIST
BECAUSE THEY WANTED HIM TO
PROSECUTE CRIMINALS WHO WERE
IMPARTING HARM AND FEAR ON THE
PARTS OF MAJORITY OF THE DIVERSE
POPULATION THAT HE TALKED ABOUT.
HE SHOULDN’T BE D.A.
NOT BECAUSE HE’S NOT A DECENT
GUY THAT WANTS TO DO WELL, BUT
HIS POLICIES ARE NOT WORKING.
THESE D.A.s WHO ARE STILL
EMPLOYING AND PURSUING THIS
PLATFORM WANTING TO RELEASE
PEOPLE FROM JAIL THAT COMMIT
VIOLENT, MURDEROUS ACTS, I DON’T
KNOW WHAT THAT’S ACCOMPLISHING.
SEEMS TO ME THERE’S NO SOCIAL OR
JUSTICE IN ANY OF THAT.
THE COMMUNITIES THEY’RE BRINGING
HARM TO, ASK THOSE COMMUNITIES
IF THEY FEEL THIS IS AN ACT OF
SOCIAL JUSTICE, IT IS NOT.
WERE YOU RIGHT ABOUT US OWNING
THIS?
IF WE DON’T HAVE A NATIONAL
MESSAGE THAT DENOUNCES CASHLESS
BAIL FOR VIOLENT OFFENDERS, IF
WE DON’T MAKE CLEAR EVERY TIME
THE PRESIDENT SPEAKS THE NEXT
TWO WEEKS, HE MUST SAY WE FULLY
FUNDED THE POLICE, PASSED A
POLICING BILL IN THE HOUSE, NOT
ONE REPUBLICAN VOTED FOR IT,
THAT’S WHAT HE MEANS WHEN HE
SAID HE THOUGHT THEY WERE DOING
BETTER.
WE CAN’T BE FOR CASHLESS BAIL,
DEMOCRATS, IF WE WANT SAFER
COMMUNITIES, ESPECIALLY IF YOU
WANT SAFE COMMUNITIES FOR PEOPLE
LIKE ME AND FOR PEOPLE THAT LOOK
LIKE ME.
>> I THINK A KID SOLVES THIS.
WE USED TO PLAY A GAME, COPS AND
ROBBERS.
>> Jesse: GUESS WHO’S WHO.
>> I AM JEALOUS OF THE ROBBER.
AS A FAT KID, I COULD NEVER GET
AWAY.
I NEVER BOTHERED.
I WOULD GET A DRAGNET AND CLOSE
THE CAP.
WE CREATED A SYSTEM THAT HAS
MORE EMPATHY FOR THE CRIMINAL
THAN THE COP, THIS IS THE
RESIDUAL EFFECT OF THIS.
WHAT I AM SO BLOWN AWAY ABOUT,
THE NARRATIVE PUSHED ON THE LEFT
THAT REPUBLICANS ARE EVIL FOR
HIGHLIGHTING ALL THE CRIME.
WE’RE THE ONES BRINGING
ATTENTION TO IT TO STOP IT.
THEY’RE THE 911 OPERATORS
LETTING IT GO TO VOICE MAIL
PLAYING CANDY CRUSH ON THE
PHONE.
IF WE JUST ACCEPT THAT, I THINK