Juno News - Calls to defund the police are just leftist nonsense

00:00:00.000 The death of George Floyd nearly two weeks ago at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer who,

00:00:11.520 with his knee on the neck of Floyd, ignored gasping claims that he couldn't breathe,

00:00:17.240 and that was indeed tragic. His death has triggered protests in cities across America,

00:00:24.360 but also in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, and Halifax. Looting also erupted in Montreal and,

00:00:31.920 to a lesser degree, Toronto. Looting and torching of premises in Minneapolis, Los Angeles,

00:00:39.200 and a number of other cities. They were burning minority-owned businesses, and in the process

00:00:46.500 killed a number of people, including a retired St. Louis police captain who was doing security

00:00:53.400 for a friend's pawn shop business. Some of the worst examples were in New York City,

00:01:00.840 in Manhattan, and Brooklyn. Now first off, let me say that there's no excuse for police brutality.

00:01:10.120 The police are entitled by law to use force in the execution of their duties, but only as much force

00:01:17.320 as is necessary. Police who use force are criminally responsible for any excess thereof. And so it is

00:01:26.600 with the Minneapolis officer. One has been charged with second-degree murder, and the other two are

00:01:33.160 charged with aiding and abetting the crime of murder too. All have been fired. Perhaps once that was done,

00:01:41.720 one might have thought that that would have been the end of it. But no, the protests, and I use the term

00:01:49.160 loosely, has not been the case, and continues today unabated. But the most ridiculous overreaction that has

00:02:00.600 emanated from all of this have been the calls to defund the police. With what exactly clear,

00:02:08.360 we have heard suggestions of rapid response social force. What? Are they suggesting having a social

00:02:18.120 worker respond to an armed bank robbery? What will they do when they arrive on the scene? Commiserate

00:02:24.840 with the perpetrator about what a tough childhood they had? The mind boggles with all the stupidity of it

00:02:32.440 all. Doing the job of a police officer is incredibly difficult. It vacillates between moments of sheer

00:02:39.720 boredom to moments of abject terror, often with just a few moments in between. The concept of a collection

00:02:49.000 of social workers responding to a drunken bar fight or a domestic dispute faced with a drunken irrational

00:02:58.920 brute further boggles the mind. During an analysis of the incident and adjusting training methods,

00:03:08.280 including use of force guidelines and creating policy and procedures make sense. But to defund the police

00:03:17.080 is sheer madness. This is all left-wing drivel, of course, as is typical.

00:03:22.920 This is all left-wing drivel. Knee-jerk ideas that come without the benefit of any actual thought or analysis.

00:03:31.400 They just have to control you in any way they can. For True North, I'm Leo Knight.

Juno News - June 07, 2020