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00:03:01.000It's a big day, and everybody's talking about it across the Twitter sphere, across mainstream news media, legacy news media, conservative news media.
00:03:42.000We now have enough circumstantial evidence, anecdotal.
00:03:46.000We also have the data to back it up that what the activists have been pushing for since one year ago today, and the death of George Floyd, and it is tragic.
00:04:41.000We have been all over these facts on the Charlie Kirk show.
00:04:44.000We will continue to stay on them as it's possible that that whole trial will be appealed and could possibly get over a turn on appeal.
00:04:51.000So we're going to be taking a close look at that as details roll in.
00:04:56.000Nevertheless, here we are a year later.
00:04:58.000We have seen the explosion of the defund police movement.
00:05:01.000We have seen rising crime across the country.
00:05:06.000And it's truly been tragic for America.
00:05:09.000Now, the left-wing media wants to blame this on the pandemic.
00:05:13.000The rising crime is all because of the pandemic, because of the lockdowns, and because of this unprecedented moment in our nation's history and the world history.
00:05:25.000I think common sense, reason, and the facts all back up the fact that this is Democrat-caused chaos raging across our country.
00:05:36.000The cities are returning to an era of urban blight that we have not seen since the 90s when finally the nation rose up and said, we've had enough.
00:05:49.000And they elected strong, tough on crime mayors in some of America's top cities, including Mayor Rudy Giuliani in New York.
00:05:57.000There was actually Richard Reardon, who was mayor of Los Angeles from 1993 to 2001, who also contributed in a massive way to bringing more police officers on the streets, thousands in Los Angeles.
00:06:13.000And just as the Israelites forgot the goodness of God who brought them out of slavery and bondage, the American people have forgot themselves and they have forgotten the way that we got the cities to a safe place, out of the crime-infested 80s and 90s, early 90s, into a place of booming prosperity, economic development.
00:06:37.000And yes, that nasty word gentrification, which comes with increased economic opportunity for businesses and developers.
00:07:03.000Now, part of that is because of the pandemic, certainly.
00:07:06.000But a large part of that, the nail in the coffin, so to speak.
00:07:10.000The pandemic maybe started the fleeing from the cities, but the BLM riots of the summer, BLM Inc., as we like to call them here on the Charlie Kirk show, certainly brought it to a whole new level.
00:07:26.000And I call her the professor of Turning Point USA, the professor of the Charlie Kirk show.
00:07:35.000She's certainly one of the main thought leaders on the right, Heather McDonald.
00:07:40.000She's a tremendous scholar, Manhattan Institute.
00:07:43.000She's a contributing editor, I believe, for the City Journal, which is phenomenal.
00:07:48.000She wrote a piece here for the Wall Street Journal that published last night Saying it was titled A Year After George Floyd's Murder, It's Open Season in Minneapolis, an app's title.
00:08:01.000And she starts it by essentially railing against Al Sharpton and civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump.
00:08:08.000This guy, Benjamin Crump, if you don't know who Benjamin Crump is, this guy is everywhere.
00:08:23.000Al Sharpton knows well enough how to stay relevant, so he brings him along with him.
00:08:27.000They let him march in downtown Minneapolis on Sunday in advance of this anniversary of George Floyd's death.
00:08:35.000What Heather does in this article is brilliant because she instantly takes it from the reports about the anniversary and all the emotionalism that's tied up in that.
00:08:46.000And then we quickly move on to the fact that they are not marching for the hundreds and hundreds and thousands of other black dead people as a result of the rise in violence that these protests and these riots, these mostly peaceful protests, which is just garbage.
00:09:42.000You've rarely seen this kind of focus and commitment.
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00:10:13.000Now, I want to get into, I was talking about before the break, this article in the Wall Street Journal by the one and only Heather McDonald, a friend of the show, a true thought leader.
00:10:24.000She's talking about the, in general, how we have scapegoated the wrong people.
00:10:31.000Now, this is a general theme that I'm going to be building out this entire hour: that the left has this glorification of the word activist.
00:10:39.000They lift up the word activist like it is, you might as well be a saint, a patron saint of George Floyd or whatever.
00:10:46.000They think activism is the end-all-be-all.
00:10:49.000They think that rioting and protesting are one and the same.
00:10:53.000And the problem with their activism and their protesting is that it's all chaos.
00:10:57.000It all destabilizes the institutions that we rely on, namely, in this instance, the police force.
00:11:40.000It doesn't line the pockets of Al Sharpton and Benjamin Crump.
00:11:45.000And yet, this is a 10-year-old that is fighting for his life right now.
00:11:51.000A victim of the violence that has exploded on the streets of Minneapolis, that is endemic of the same type of violence that has exploded on the streets of all of America's major cities because of jerks, opportunist race hustlers like Benjamin Crump and Al Sharpton.
00:12:09.000On May 15th, nine-year-old Trinity Audison Smith was jumping on a trampoline at a friend's house when bullets fired from a passing car struck her in the head.
00:12:17.000She is also in critical condition at North Memorial Hospital.
00:12:23.00019 children in Minneapolis have been shot this year.
00:13:29.000That woman's pain is real, and she will not get a protest.
00:13:36.000She will not get a $27 million settlement from the city of Minneapolis.
00:13:43.000That same day that Sherry Jennings held that press conference for her 10-year-old grandson, Ladavian, another six-year-old, Ania Allen, was caught in a shootout between rival gangs while in her mother's car.
00:15:24.000We're talking about the incredible rise in crime that's happening across the nation.
00:15:29.000One year later, we talk about the legacy of this.
00:15:32.000You're going to hear two different narratives emerge.
00:15:34.000You're going to hear the activist media and the left saying that this has been a change that has been long in the making, that we need to stamp out systemic racism in America.
00:15:46.000And then you're going to hear a minority of voices like Heather McDonald and the Wall Street Journal that are saying that you have scapegoated the good guys, that defunding the police is actually going to hurt and kill more black Americans than increasing funding to police.
00:16:03.000Refund the police is a whole movement.
00:16:05.000So we'll get into that in just a second, but I want to finish up here.
00:16:08.000We just played that clip from the grandmother of the 10-year-old.
00:16:12.000So it was Sherry Jennings, the 10-year-old boy, Ladavian, who was shot and is fighting for his life right now at North Memorial Health Hospital in Minneapolis.
00:16:24.000But if we talk about overall crime, it's terrifying.
00:16:30.000The increase in crime is absolutely historical.
00:16:36.000Now, the single largest year-over-year increase of crime before 2020 was 1968, after the assassination of Martin Luther King.
00:16:46.000Violent crime increased in the country after that assassination by about 12%.
00:18:13.000The Bronx, let me repeat, has seen an increase in shooting victims of 165.7% year over year.
00:18:20.000The media and Democrat politicians, this is straight from Heather McDonald, attribute this crime increase to the pandemic and attendant shutdowns.
00:18:28.000But the violent surge of 2020 began only after the George Floyd riots.
00:18:35.000That was more than two months after COVID-19 lockdowns.
00:18:39.000No other industrialized country saw a comparable crime increase.
00:18:45.000In fact, crime dropped in the UK and Canada, where lockdowns were more severe.
00:18:50.000So when the left tells you that, oh, this was a perfect storm of the pandemic and this and that, no.
00:18:56.000This is exactly because of the rioting and the violence of BLM Inc. and the bullying that happened by the mainstream news media against common sense Americans in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd.
00:22:34.000Qualified immunity is essentially a, it was established by the courts.
00:22:44.000It allows for cops to not be held personally liable if in good faith, if executing their duties in good faith, a violation of civil rights happens.
00:23:35.000So he's fighting to make sure that that's a part of this bill.
00:23:38.000Qualified immunity, folks, is what protects police officers.
00:23:44.000Now, if you don't understand just how difficult it is to be a police officer, you should go look at some of the crime footage that's coming out all across the country.
00:23:51.000We put it up all the time on Rumble, Charlie's Rumble page.
00:23:54.000So check out Rumble.com, look up the Charlie Kirk show, and we're constantly posting clips of this.
00:24:01.000And what you're doing, you're already seeing this attrition in the police departments across the country.
00:24:12.000New York PED experiences 75% increase in departures and retirements.
00:24:17.000More than 5,300 New York Police Department officers have retired or submitted paperwork to leave the force in 2020, a 75% increase from the previous year, according to department data.
00:24:28.000That's approximately 2,600 officers departed while another 2,700 filed for retirement.
00:24:37.000In Chicago, 560 officers retired in 2020 in a police department that had about 13,000 sworn officers as of March.
00:24:45.000That's about 15% more cops retiring than the previous year when the number of retirements rose by 30% that year.
00:24:51.000In Minneapolis, about 40 officers retired last year.
00:24:54.000Actually, I've seen that number at 200.
00:24:56.000Minneapolis is actually reporting that they have a third, they are a third underpoliced.
00:25:04.000And actually, Jacob Fry, the mayor, the weak mayor of Minneapolis, who tried to pander to these idiots, he is now calling on federal reinforcements to police the streets.
00:25:18.000Now, they've since gone back on the defund garbage, but they're still trying to restructure everything.
00:25:23.000Now, you are putting these police in a terrible situation.
00:25:25.000You're making them put their lives on the line, and then you are saying, hey, guess what?
00:25:30.000In the most difficult of circumstances, in the most life-risking moments where they literally have their lives on the line, and they are asking themselves, do I get to go home and see my kids?
00:25:41.000Do I get to go home and see my wife or my husband?
00:25:45.000Now you're going to take qualified immunity from them.
00:25:48.000And I got another clip from one of the squad.
00:25:52.000This is just, I mean, she's, she's, this is Representative Presley.
00:26:02.000Well, you know, qualified immunity is an unjust doctrine that has been codified in statute after statute that has allowed for law enforcement to operate with callous disregard of black and brown bodies with reckless impunity for our lives without any consequences.
00:26:20.000And we know that there can never truly be justice because justice would mean that George Floyd, it would mean they would all still be with us.
00:26:30.000So qualified immunity already has limitations, and people need to understand this, that if you violate somebody's, if you violate a widely established statute or procedure, you could still be held accountable.
00:26:42.000There are still means by which you can hold police officers accountable if they are way out of line.
00:26:47.000Qualified immunity would be a disaster.
00:26:50.000We will lose police all over the country if you pass this bill, Senator Tim Scott.
00:26:54.000You need to fight back with everything you've got.
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00:28:11.000Qualified immunity, and here's the definition of it, is a judicially created doctrine that shields government officials from being held personally liable for constitutional violations, like the right to be free from excessive police force.
00:28:23.000That's the typical reason that they use for money damages under federal law, so long as officials did not violate clearly established law.
00:28:31.000Now, even if they do it ignorantly, they can't be held liable.
00:28:35.000So left-wing activists are very upset that there are certain police officers that don't get charged when there is a tough call, when there is a close call, when there's a shooting involved, when officers have put their lives on the line.
00:28:51.000Again, more Americans than not want more funding for police, not less.
00:29:21.000He's one of these officers that has left the force as a result of all of this anti-police sentiment that's been drummed up in the wake of George Floyd's death.
00:30:02.000And what you see is chaos, violence, and reoccurring crime.
00:30:08.000You don't have to stop for the police anymore.
00:30:10.000And this is true, by the way, increasingly across the nation, where in California, you can rob a store as long as it's not over $1,000 of goods, approximately.
00:31:09.000It is exactly her gaslighting of the American public that is leading to the death of black and brown bodies in the streets.
00:31:17.000And a lot of them are little kids, as we covered before.
00:31:20.000The Justice and Policing Act was already passed by the House.
00:31:23.000Joe Biden's calling for it to be passed by the Senate.
00:31:26.000All that's holding it up right now is negotiations with the Senate Republicans.
00:31:32.000And who's leading that charge is Tim Scott, who's already pandering way too much on this issue.
00:31:39.000The House bill would ban chokeholds, carotid holds, and no-knock search warrants at the federal level.
00:31:45.000It will also tie federal funding for state and local law enforcement to officials banning those practices.
00:31:51.000It would make it easier to prosecute police and create a national database for police misconduct.
00:31:56.000The only part of that entire bill that I am in support of is the national database for police misconduct.
00:32:03.000That's the only part that makes any sense.
00:32:05.000Now, Tim Scott is trying to say, well, you know, if we're going to roll back qualified immunity, maybe we just, you know, we can hold police, entire police precincts accountable, or basically trying to get it off the personal level.