“It was the liberal politicians that did this to you. You the listeners in the big cities. You the listeners right now whose homes are being burglarized, whose kids are being robbed,” Bongino said.
Dan Bongino spoke to Sean Hannity on Tuesday night after yet another weekend of shocking crimes were reported in American cities. The nation's biggest cities have been hard hit by a deadly combination of "defund the police" policies and pandemic-era crime increases that have left residents and cops struggling for answers.
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View on XHannity showed tape of the "shocking violent crime" that took place in New York City, where a man could be seen chasing a 16-year-old around a city sidewalk in broad daylight, then shooting the teen on Sunday afternoon in Queens. He showed a footage of a teen "shot dead" in the back of a car, a crime for which a 15-year-old has been arrested. This, Hannity said, is believed to be an act of gang violence.
In another incident, early Sunday morning, body camera footage captured a man, who was arrested twice for attacking police officers, assaulting a New York Police Department cop on a Brooklyn street corner by smashing a glass bottle over his head. The 27-year-old suspect, who has previously been arrested for assaulting officers, was identified as Tyshaun Holloway of Hackensack, New Jersey.
"These," Hannity said, "are the deadly, predictable consequences of defund, dismantle the police agenda, no-bail laws, and the consequences of not enforcing law and order, and the consequences of demonizing the police."
He asked Bongino, a former cop, for his perspective on his take that if "we keep up with this defund, dismantle, and we keep up with these no-bail laws this never ends and this gets worse."
"We both hope you're wrong," Bongino said. "Because there will be more body bags if there's not." Bongino addressed the causes of these crime increases, saying that "the worst part about it is the liberals," saying "it was the liberal politicians that did this to you. You the listeners in the big cities. You the listeners right now whose homes are being burglarized, whose kids are being robbed, whose cars are being broken into."
"The larcenies being committed in your stores," Bongino continued. "In San Francisco, and elsewhere, in LA, people walking out of stores with hundreds of dollars worth of stuff. The people who did to you knew this was gonna happen."
Bongino pulled out a few headlines from the Washington Post that exemplified his point. Among them, were articles on Washington, DC's City Council plans to defund police, contrasted with a recent story about how DC's Mayor Murial Bowser is now interested in bringing back some funds for the police.
"Do you think these people are stupid?" Bongino asked. "They did this to you! When are you gonna wake up? They did this to you! Your neighborhoods are turning into hell holes because they did it he said."
As to why, he said that "These people are weak," and Bongino is "disgusted" by weakness. "I hate weak people," he said, "I can't stand weakness. These politicians were weak 'cause they didn't have the cojones to stand up to these radical leftist lunatics, like the AOC members of the Squad, and say 'y'know what, I'm not gonna cut funding to my police because people are gonna die.'
"They didn't have the guts, because they're weak, pathetic losers. And that's why people are dead, because of them. And people need to wake up and vote these chumps out."
"If we do that," Hannity said, "things will get better."
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