White House: Just Voting to Defund the Police 'Results' in Immediate and Retroactive Increase...

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White House: Just Voting to Defund the Police ‘Results’ in Immediate and Retroactive Increase in Murders

https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2020/08/white-house-just-voting-to-defund-the-police-results-in-immediate-and-retroactive-increase-in-murders/

Kayleigh McEnany is claiming that any movement toward defunding the police will cause an immediate and even retroactive increase in murders. The White House press secretary cited year over year homicide statistics in Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and New York City, directly blaming recent remarks by local elected officials for the increase in murders going back to January.

Calling it a “troubling trend” in “Democrat cities” at Tuesday afternoon’s press briefing McEnany told reporters that “in Los Angeles you had L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti proposing a cut of $150 million from the LAPD. L.A. Mayor said this: ‘It starts someplace, and we say we are going to be who we want to be or we’re going to continue being the killers that we are,’ was his quote in support of the Defund movement and as a result we saw a 14% rise in homicides this year over last year.”

McEnany did not mention that Garcetti made that comment two months ago, on June 5.

And that 14% increase is for the entire year to date, versus the same time period last year.

But McEnany says the murder rate increase is the “result” of Garcetti’s comment.

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1. Question, Kayleigh?

Actually, a couple of questions. First, it appears that Portland still has not complied with the President's order to burn to the ground. Any update on the administration's progress there?

And the other question, before he scuppered off to Ohio for yet another taxpayer-funded campaign appearance, did President Trump by any chance leave that comprehensive health care plan in your in box? He's been promising it for years, and most recently he promised to have it out there by last Monday. What's up with that ongoing broken promise?

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2. KayLie's on-point response:

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3. Oh, that's just so nasty