Tucker: Stupid people took control of our country

good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight one sunday afternoon last september a 16 year old boy called aaron pryor was shot to death in a driveway near his home in oakland california even by the standards of midday drive-by shootings it was an awful crime surveillance footage showed the killer firing more than a dozen rounds before fleeing no one was arrested for their murder but local media did not seem especially interested in finding out who did it because they already knew the coronavirus killed aaron pryor that's what they told us one local television station noted that violence in the area had risen since the pandemic began they must be connected pryor's football coach agreed with this it was kovid that really killed this kid he told reporters the coach didn't explain how exactly covett had done this killing or what kobut's motive might have been but no one asked everyone particularly people in power seemed happy to blame kovit the pandemic did it you heard that a lot and not just in california across the country in new york city mayor bill de blasio blamed blind rising crime rates squarely on the virus police organizations will say that part of the reason that crime is up is because there has been a cut in funding to the nypd what do you say to that this predates any funding decisions that's just the truth the perfect storm i mentioned started in march and april when everything's shut down and we saw the violence start in earnest may into june uh into july and it's clearly because things came unglued it must have been the pandemic that makes sense the quarantine did it we forced everyone to stay home and that's why there's so many people on the streets shooting each other and pushing strangers into oncoming subway cars does that make sense do you know it doesn't make sense to anyone but thankfully experts soon emerged to explain why something so obviously untrue must in fact be true quote because of the stresses of the pandemic they're everywhere explaining a former cia officer called jeff asher to the new york times you are seeing this everywhere except we're not seeing this everywhere that's not true the coronavirus may be global but rising crime rates are not global police in canada for example reported that crime fell by 18 between march and october of last year in the uk crime saw its biggest annual decrease in a decade in sweden and russia crime dropped too even in mexico which is the middle of a drug war there were fewer homicides in 2020 than there were in 2019. so for normal countries pretty much all countries the pandemic meant more netflix but less killing not here in the united states the opposite happened a lot of netflix even more killings you're seeing the data on your screen right now it's from a non-profit called the council on criminal justice and researchers at the university of missouri it shows the average weekly homicide rate in 21 major cities killings spiked in late may well after the pandemic began according to council on criminal justice quote homicides aggravated assaults gun assaults rose significantly beginning in late may and june of 2020 they jumped by 40 percent during the summer and 34 in the fall when compared to the previous summer and fall so far this year these sad trends have continued murders are up 800 percent in portland oregon they're up 56 percent in minneapolis seen of george floyd's death they're up 27 in la 22 in new york they're up 40 percent in philadelphia so you have to ask yourself because your life may depend on it why is this country different from say sweden or russia or mexico and you know the answer it's not covid it's that in our country stupid malicious people took full control the democratic party took full control of the country and their policies resulted in a huge number of killings that's not speculation they've bragged about it here they are bragging about their plans the folks in law enforcement that share the goals of reimagining policing imagining policing in the 21st century rethinking and reimagining policing community efforts to reimagine policing to reimagine policing we have to reimagine what policing looks like reimagining policing reimagining our public safety reimagine a citizen-led approach and begin to reimagine law enforcement reimagine public safety in this country what can we do to reimagine public safety reimagining public safety to reimagine public safety we must reimagine what public safety looks like well they definitely reimagined public safety they made the public much less safe according to a report in axios 20 major u.s cities have slashed their police budgets in the last year they defunded the police collectively they cut more than 840 million dollars from law enforcement in atlanta in a story that we love to read one city councilman who voted to strip 73 million from the police a genius called antonio brown just had his car stolen in broad daylight by children who were not held back by the police they'd been defunded must have been covid that did it meanwhile at least 25 cities have pulled police out of public schools they've canceled the contracts how's that going to work you know the answer at universities activists have pushed for the same total abolition of the police when they said we're going to defund the police they meant it at the university of chicago dozens of students swarmed the home of the college president one of them an especially entitled young lady called madeleine wright shouted this through a megaphone quote we're going to fight to abolish this effing system not reform it professors at the school joined her one of them a character called damon jones led seminars on the problem of over policing in the neighborhood around the university of chicago it's called hyde park it's where obama's from the professor wrote dozens of posts on twitter last summer explaining that because the university of chicago's police stop more african americans than white people in a predominantly black neighborhood keep in mind they're racist what's interesting is that damon jones hasn't said anything on twitter about the police since january of this year why january well that's when yerin fawn a thirty-year-old phd student at the university of chicago was murdered in a killing spree on chicago's south side along with two other people killed for being there and at that point it's possible that even morons like damon jones realized there's a reason the university of chicago has one of the largest private police forces outside the vatican why because the neighborhood around the school is a very dangerous place that's not the fault of the police that's the reason they have police and that could be true for the entire city of chicago which is dangerous and becoming more so by the day now why has that happened it's happened because people with a political agenda have taken over law enforcement it was in chicago for example that blm activists declared that looting stealing is a form of reparations watch they get upset when people start looting people in this city are struggling through a pandemic so i don't care if somebody decides to loot a gucci or a macy's or a nike because that makes sure that that person eats that makes sure that that person has clothes that makes sure that that person can make some kind of money because this city obviously doesn't care about them not only that that's reparations so you got to steal from gucci to eat stealing is reparations now that's insane and only a very sick society would listen to someone like that someone like that would be dismissed automatically in a healthy society but in this case not a single democratic politician pushed back so guess what happened well in the city of san francisco for example walgreens has closed 17 different stores why because prosecutors in san francisco and in many other places throughout the state of california for example but not just there no longer charge shoplifters so people steal whatever they want there is so much theft on such a scale that the stores cannot afford to stay open they're not closing as a political statement they're closing because they can't afford to have their merchandise stolen this is not the country you were born in here's what it looks like the walgreens at vanessa and eddie in san francisco will close its doors for good november 11th customers say the store is known for being a notoriously easy place to shoplift i've heard the walgreens is really easy to peel from because they don't chase you and neighbors agree shoplifting has been an ongoing problem at this location and may be a major factor in why it will soon be closed customers say the shelves are bare the company not even bothering to restock so to be clear it's not that americans have become more prone to steal it's that stealing is now allowed and when you allow something you get more of it so this is the result of intentional policies designed to give us more stealing designed to give us more murder more rate more pushing strangers in front of subway cars it's happened because the people in charge allowed it to happen and it's happening everywhere it's particularly happening in new york several candidates for mayor of new york people running to replace bill de blasio have announced that anyone who opposes stealing is quote criminalizing poverty who are the people of views like that they're not normal people they are it goes the saying pampered out of touch liberals they're the only ones who can afford views like that actress cynthia nixon certainly fits that description nixon expressed outrage the other day that the cvs in her neighborhood was trying to prevent thieves from walking off with their entire inventory quote i can't imagine thinking that the way to solve the problem of people stealing basic necessities out of desperation is to prosecute them so you've got to wonder what would happen if you showed up at cynthia nixon's place tonight and tried to help yourself to some quote basic necessities would cynthia nixon understand your theft as a profound form of social protest as a form of social justice would she applaud it or would she tell her bodyguards to shoot you and then thank them profusely when they did it's not a tough question you'd be dead in seconds cynthia nixon doesn't mean a word of what she says about crime none of them mean a word of what they say about crime they're just trying to feel like good people in a world that confuses destruction for virtue these people need help they should be nowhere near power unfortunately at the moment they run the democratic party and all of us are seeing the results of that hey sean hannity here hey click here to subscribe to fox news youtube page and catch our hottest interviews and most compelling analysis you will not get it anywhere else

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Length: 11min 16sec (676 seconds)

Published: Thu May 27 2021