Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong gave an impassioned speech after the all-democrat city council voted to defund over 18 million from the city’s police budget amid a major crime surge. This from therightscoop.com.
Here’s some of what Armstrong had to say:
“Today we find ourselves in a crisis. We find ourselves reeling from a weekend of violence where we’ve seen four homicides over a three day period. It now has us currently at 65 homicides for the year. That’s a 90% increase compared to last year. Our shootings are up over 70% this year. Our robberies are up 11% this year. There’ve been 1,300 robberies in this city already this year. Our carjackings are up nearly 88%. So we see clearly that crime is out of control in the city of Oakland and our response was for less policing resources.”
Click HERE to view Armstrong’s impassioned plea.
He then addressed a comment by one of the city council members, who suggested this crime surge was just a ‘speed bump’, that there would be challenges but everything would be okay:
Well for me, those speed bumps are 65 lives so far this year, victims who have suffered at the hands of violence whether it’s shootings, robberies, carjackings, sexual assaults. All of these crimes are not speed bumps. These are people. Far too often in these meetings we are talking about numbers, money and cost. I don’t know what the cost of life is, but I know not having resources makes our city less safe. It concerns me that we would ever consider that to be a bump in the road, that when you look at this screen and you see these are true people, these are people who lost their lives in this city.
Armstrong continued, even pausing after he presumably felt himself getting choked up at the people he’s had to deal with after these violent crimes, which a city council member suggests are just speed bumps.
Meanwhile, consider the backdrop yesterday as this police chief was giving this speech. You’ve got the White House’s Jen Psaki defending the falsity that Republicans are the ones defunding police departments because they didn’t vote for Biden’s craptastic spending bill earlier this year. Biden and his henchmen are trying to twist reality into some crazy, absurd, woke version of itself which they hope to sell to the public, when it is literally Democratic city councils who are voting to defund police.
No longer is it only Republicans disgusted with democrat leadership and speaking out against democrat malfeasance. Even those who have been life-long democrats now fully realize progressive liberal democrat socialist communists are incapable of adequately managing anything, besides improving the lives of all Americans just as we have witnessed under the Trump administration.
Thank goodness President Trump is still out there in the public realm amplifying the transgressions of the democrat occupation. He is our major sounding board and front line of defense in saving America from communism.
