ARE HIGHLY UNDER ATTACK AND WHY
WE HAVE 100% INCREASE IN CRIME.
>> Harris: JASON RANTZ IS A
SEATTLE AREA RADIO HOST AND ON
THE ISSUES WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT
AND WHERE WE ARE AT THIS MOMENT.
YOUR TOP LINE THOUGHTS.
>> I HOPE EVERYONE IS AT
OUTRAGED AND EMBARRASSED BY
THIS AS YOU AND I ARE.
YOU HAVE OFFICERS IN CHICAGO
AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY EVERY
DAY THAT PUT ON THE UNIFORM
KNOWING THEY MIGHT NOT COME
HOME AFTER THAT SHIFT AND ELLA
FRENCH DIDN’T GET TO GO HOME.
HER PARTNER IS STILL FIGHTING
FOR HIS LIFE AND THEY ARE OWED
RESPECT.
THESE OFFICERS REELING FROM
WHAT HAS BEEN GOING ON, LOSING
NOT JUST A MEMBER OF THE TEAM,
A MEMBER OF THEIR FAMILY, BUT
REALIZING THAT THEY ALSO ARE
GOING THROUGH SOMETHING AND
THEY ARE NOT BEING TREATED WITH
ANY SORT OF COMPASSION.
IT IS INCREDIBLY DISTURBING
THAT ANYONE WOULD TREAT A
SACRED RITUAL LIKE THIS THE WAY
THEY DID.
IT IS INDICATIVE HOW LITTLE
SUPPORT AND CARE MAYOR
LIGHTFOOT AND HER
ADMINISTRATION HAVE FOR COPS.
IT IS A SYMPTOM OF THAT ISSUE.
>> Harris: WE’RE TALKING ABOUT
A SITUATION, TOO, WHERE THEY
ARE HAVING TO PUT MONEY BACK
INTO LAW ENFORCEMENT IN THAT
CITY AFTER DEFUNDING.
LOOK, THERE IS A WHOLE LOT OF
-- I’VE TALKED TO A LOT OF
OFFICIALS FROM THERE AND ACROSS
THE COUNTRY WHO DON’T LIKE THE
WORD DEFUND THE POLICE.
THEY SAY THEY ARE MIMICKING
WHAT THEY SEE IN THE STREETS.
I DON’T KNOW WHAT THEY’RE
TALKING ABOUT.
WHEN YOU TAKE MONEY AWAY FROM
THINGS AND REALLOCATE OR
WHATEVER WORD YOU WANT TO
REDEFINE THAT SOME ON THE LEFT
LIKE TO DO THE BOTTOM LINE IS
YOU’VE TAKEN RESOURCES AWAY.
THAT’S ANOTHER THING THAT THIS
MAYOR, LORI LIGHTFOOT, IS
HAVING TO GO BACKWARDS ON NOW
AND SAY WE NEED MONEY FOR MORE
COPS.
>> ABSOLUTELY.
LOOK, THERE WOULD PROBABLY BE A
LITTLE BIT OF ROOM FOR ERRORS
LIKE WHAT HAPPENED RUSHING
THROUGH A RITUAL IF THESE
OFFICERS FELT SOME LEVEL OF
SUPPORT.
BUT TO BE CLEAR, MAYOR
LIGHTFOOT AND DEMOCRATS AROUND
THE COUNTRY HAVE EMBOLDENED THE
CRIMINALS BY PUSHING POLICIES
THAT MAKE COMMUNITIES UNSAFE.
THEY BLAME TRUMP OR THEY BLAME
GUNS OR EVERYTHING EXCEPT THE
ACTUAL CRIMINALS BECAUSE IT
WINS THEM POLITICAL POINTS.
THEN THEY PRETEND SOMEONE
CALLING YOU OUT FOR NOT DOING A
VERY GOOD JOB WELL, YOU DON’T
UNDERSTAND THE DEFUND MOVEMENT
OR YOU ARE COMING AFTER ME
BECAUSE IT’S SEXIST AND RACIST.
SOMETHING MORE DANGEROUS THAN
THE GANG BANGERS ARE THE
DEMOCRATS THAT ARE EMBOLDENING
THEM TO DO THAT AND COPS ARE
SICK OF IT AND THIS IS WHAT
THEY’RE DOING IN RESPONSE.
THEY ARE TURNING THEIR BACKS,
THEY ARE TELLING THE MAYOR AS
THEY DID LAST NIGHT DON’T COME
TO OUR GATHERING.
DON’T COME TO OUR MEETING.
WE DON’T WANT ANYTHING TO DO
WITH YOU.
WHEN YOU HAVE LOST YOUR COPS
LIKE THAT, IT’S NOT A GOOD SIGN
FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP SKILLS NOR
IS IT A GOOD SIGN OF WHAT’S TO
COME.
>> Harris: AND THE PEOPLE THAT
MATTER ARE THE PEOPLE YOU HAVE
TO PROTECT AGAINST THE PEOPLE
WHO WANT TO HARM THE REST OF US.
THE CHAIRMAN OF MINNEAPOLIS
FARMER LABOR PARTY IS FACING
BLOWBACK -- AN OP-ED READ THIS
WAY.
LIKE IT OR NOT SETTING THE
THIRD PRECINCT ON FIRE WAS A
GENUINE REVOLUTIONARY MOMENT
AND ACT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS TO
OPEN NEW WORLDS OF
UNDERSTANDING.
AGAIN THAT’S A QUOTE.
HE LATER TRIED TO CLARIFY THOSE
REMARKS OR WHAT WE SAY CLEAN IT
UP.
PEOPLE HAVE SEIZED ON THE WORD
RIGHTEOUSNESS AS IF I AM THE
ONE ASSIGNING IT MORAL VALUE.
THAT IS NOT THE CASE, THE QUOTE
GOES ON.
IT IS MEANT TO CONVEY HOW THE
PROTESTORS FELT AT THE TIME.
THIS AS A JUDGE HAS ORDERED
MINNEAPOLIS TO HIRE AT LEAST
730 NEW POLICE OFFICERS BY NEXT
SUMMER.
EVEN AS THE CITY SAYS IT PLANS
TO VOTE ON A PROPOSAL TO
DISMANTLE THE ENTIRE POLICE
DEPARTMENT.
SO AGAIN, OH MY GOSH, TAKE IT
AWAY BUT YOU NEED IT.
MAKE SENSE OF THIS, JASON.
>> THERE IS NO SENSE OF THIS,
RIGHT?
WHEN YOU LISTEN TO ACTIVISTS IN
THE COMMUNITY YOU END UP MAKING
REALLY SILLY MOVES.
WHEN YOU HAVE A LARGE WING OF
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, THE
PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT, WHICH HAS
SO MUCH POWER RIGHT NOW WITHIN
THE PARTY, HOLDING THESE
POSITIONS.
HE CAN BACKTRACK ALL HE WANTS.
HE VERY CLEARLY WAS SUPPORTIVE
OF THE VIOLENCE BECAUSE WHEN
YOU ARE BEING TOLD AND WHEN YOU
BELIEVE THAT EVERY INSTITUTION
IN THIS COUNTRY HAS BEEN BUILT
ON WHITE SUPREMACY AND HAS TO
BE DISMANTLED OF COURSE PEOPLE
WILL GET VIOLENT.
WHEN YOU ARE BEING TOLD OVER
AND OVER AGAIN AS A COMMUNITY
THAT YOU ARE THE VICTIMS OF
WHITE SUPREMACY AND THE ONLY
THING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT IS TO
DISMANTLE, WHAT DO YOU THINK
THEY ARE GOING TO DO?
THEY WILL TAKE THAT LITERALLY.
WE SAW THAT HAPPENING IN THE
STREETS.
>> Harris: JASON, THIS SEEMS TO
BE FURTHER.
IT ALMOST SOUNDS LIKE THIS DFL
CHAIRMAN AND DFL IS THE LEFT
PARTY IN MINNEAPOLIS IN
MINNESOTA.
THEY DON’T JUST CALL THEM
DEMOCRATS TRADITIONALLY, IT’S
THE DFL.
HE IS ACTUALLY ALMOST
CELEBRATING WHAT WAS GOING ON.
HE IS A REVOLUTIONARY MOMENT.
THAT’S LIFTING IT UP TO A WHOLE
NEW LEVEL THAN JUST VIOLENCE
THAT BROKE OUT.
>> IT IS PRAISE.
THEY ARE PRAISING IT BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE IT IS JUSTIFIED
THEY BELIEVE IT IS JUSTIFIED
AND BELIEVE IT IS A
REVOLUTIONARY MOMENT FOR THEM.
ON JANUARY 6th PEOPLE BROKE THE
LAW AND THEY THOUGHT WE WERE
JUSTIFIED AND WE CALLED IT OUT
AS WRONG.
YET WHEN BLM OR ANTIFA RADICALS
DO IT ALL OF A SUDDEN WE SHOULD
UNDERSTAND THEIR PERSPECTIVE.
THIS IS WHAT THEY WERE THINKING
AT THE TIME.
I THIT THE INCONSISTENCY HAVE
TO BE CALLED OUT.
IT’S DANGEROUS.
ONE GROUP OF PEOPLE NOW AND THE
LAST YEAR ENGAGING IN THIS KIND
OF DOMESTIC TERRORISM.
WHEN YOU ARE USING YOUR
IDEOLOGY TO COMMIT ACTS OF
VIOLENCE LIKE THIS TO
INTIMIDATE POLITICIANS OR
COMPLETELY SHUT DOWN ANYONE
FROM SPEAKING UP AGAINST YOU,
THAT’S WHAT THIS IS, TERRORISM.
WE SHOULDN’T EMBRACE IT.
WE DON’T HAVE TO JUSTIFY IT OR
UNDERSTAND THE UNDERLYING
CONDITIONS WHY THEY DID IT.
VIOLENCE IS WRONG.
IF YOU CAN’T SAY THAT, IT’S
WEIRD TO ME.
>> Harris: A NEW FOX POLL FINDS
THAT ONLY 39% OF PEOPLE APPROVE
OF HOW PRESIDENT BIDEN IS
HANDLING THE CRIME CRISIS.
WE HAVE A LOT OF CRISES, ONE AT
THE BORDER, THIS ONE AFFECTS
EVERY AMERICAN AS WELL, AND HE
IS UNDERWATER ON IT.
>> YEAH, CORY BOOKER TRIED TO
DO SOME CLEANUP THIS WEEK WITH
WHATEVER HE DID ON THE SENATE
FLOOR.
A WEIRD FREAK-OUT HE HAD.
DEMOCRATS DON’T SUPPORT
DEFUNDING.
THE CAT IS OUT OF THE BAG.
EVERYONE KNOWS WE HAVE ACCESS
TO VIDEO AND QUOTES OF
DEMOCRATS EMBRACING THE
MOVEMENT.
NOTHING THAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT
IT.
I WISH THEY WOULD LOOK AT THE
POLLING AND SAY MAYBE WE SHOULD
TAKE IT MORE SERIOUSLY INSTEAD
OF JUST TALKING ABOUT TAKING IT
SERIOUSLY.