Oct. 4, 2023 - Candace Owens
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| I very much struggle to understand how it's possible that any person, especially a person | |
| that has a family, is choosing to live in an inner city community at this moment in | |
| American history, where the crimes are so abhorrent, they are so outrageous, criminals | |
| are so emboldened by leftist policies, which essentially in inner cities say, if you commit | |
| a crime, it's totally fine, we'll re-release you back onto the streets, because we're more | |
| interested in being able to show a statistic at the end of the year that we don't have | |
| that many people in prison, and that somehow means that we're a good city. | |
| We haven't imprisoned too many black men or Hispanic men, so that makes us a good city. | |
| We just release them back onto the streets. | |
| It's incredible. The videos that I see coming out of Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia. | |
| I used to live in Philadelphia a few short years ago. | |
| And when I see the total and utter degradation of the city, it actually saddens me. | |
| This is one example. I want you to watch this video because I don't think I've ever seen anything like it. | |
| I don't know if this is a biker gang, whatever it is, a bunch of bikers that are lined up and suddenly one of them gets the idea to just smash in somebody's car while they are driving with their young children. | |
| Take a look. So here you have it. | |
| You see that there is a light that they are coming to. | |
| This guy just gets off of his bike and bam! | |
| Kicks in that back window and children are in the car. | |
| She's got two children in the car. | |
| She stands up to him. She doesn't see that he has a gun. | |
| He's grabbing his hip. He does have a gun. | |
| He pushes her. | |
| I mean, this is just incredible. | |
| She did nothing. She's just waiting for the light to turn. | |
| She pushes him off of his bike. | |
| He gets back up onto it and he is now leaving. | |
| So the police are looking for that person and she is very much willing to testify. | |
| She spoke out. | |
| The mother that you see in that video, her name is Nikki Bullock. | |
| The police have obviously put out some information regarding that individual, what tattoo they have, | |
| and they're looking to make an arrest and she is very much willing to have him prosecuted | |
| because her children in the backseat were absolutely terrified. | |
| And fortunately, they were not impacted by all the glass shards which fell into the car. | |
| But can you imagine just being a young child and having that happen? | |
| You're just driving home, and suddenly the back window just completely blasts in because, I don't know, it's Philadelphia, and this guy felt like getting off of his bike and kicking in your car windows. | |
| Yeah, so that's Philadelphia for you in a nutshell. | |
| So here are some of their crime statistics at the moment. | |
| This is in 2022, slightly down from 2021, I should mention. | |
| There were 504 homicides, 593 rapes, 2,910 instances of a robbery with a gun, 2,807 instances of a robbery without a gun, and 3,523 incidents of an aggravated assault with a gun and 4,890 instances of an aggravated assault not featuring a gun. | |
| Maybe they had a knife. Who knows? | |
| Very scary numbers. | |
| It would be absolutely foolish for any person to defend that and to pretend that the city | |
| was safe, you would think. | |
| But leave it to anybody that's on the left, because they, despite overwhelming evidence, | |
| want you to believe somehow that things are just swell. | |
| Democrat policies are working, and there seems to be no person more committed to that delusion, | |
| or used to be committed to that delusion, than Josh Krueger. | |
| Josh Krueger was a Philadelphia journalist who routinely mocked crime concerns. | |
| And this is his Twitter bio that I'm showing you. | |
| It reads, He wrote, look, it's that lawless land of liberals in Philly where shootings are dropping to levels not seen in years. | |
| So he is defending the fact that, well, we've had less shootings in 2022 than we had in 2021, so that somehow means the city is not dangerous. | |
| I mean, completely ridiculous. He also tweeted, some idiot just said you're more likely to get shot and killed than die of COVID in Philly to make some insensitive rhetorical point for his side. | |
| Folks, four times as many Philadelphians have died of COVID and gunshots this year. | |
| I understand math is hard, but do better. | |
| So again, I mean, virtually every single leftist talking point he routinely defended on his Twitter feed. | |
| He also tweeted this, The city isn't ruined, and just because Larry Krasner keeps winning in landslides doesn't mean Philly is a heap of cinders and ashes, no matter how much people say. | |
| Like the rest of the country, we are dealing with upticks in crimes. | |
| Today I learned there is apparently a quote-unquote crippling crime wave destroying all cities, according to Stephen Miller, which includes presumably Philly. | |
| My house is not on fire and chaos is not raining in the street. | |
| I saw a man get a parking ticket yesterday and my trash got picked up. | |
| And just to show you how committed he is to let this ideologies, he routinely tweets about how drug dealers should not get arrested, how drug users should not get arrested, because he was a former drug addict himself. | |
| But he got really fired up when he saw that somebody knocked down a tree. | |
| Yeah, he's an environmentalist, so it's okay for you to do drugs, but knocking down a tree? | |
| Oh no. He tweeted, what kind of miserable loser kills a famous beloved tree? | |
| Vandals? Whoever it is needs his ass beat. | |
| I remain convinced a key problem today is not enough people have gotten into physical fights. | |
| You'd be amazed at how reluctant people are to talk or act crazy after a whooping. | |
| Yes, so Josh Krueger wanted to whoop someone's A-double-S because they chopped down a tree. | |
| But he's fine with the crime, just an uptick in Philadelphia, and totally fine with drug | |
| dealers and routinely tweeting at conservatives for what he believes is just hyperbolic hysteria, | |
| that there is no crime in his city. | |
| Well, an unfortunate update is that Josh Krueger was murdered in his own home in Philadelphia. | |
| Deputy Police Commissioner Frank Venore told the Philadelphia Inquirer, which is one of | |
| the places that Josh wrote for, that officers from his department responded to reports of | |
| gunshots and screams and arrived at the residence to find Krueger lying in the street outside. | |
| Benora told Kruger's former employer that his investigators believe that Kruger was shot at the base of the interior stairs and then collapsed after running outside to get help. | |
| He was pronounced dead at a hospital a short time later, cops said, with an incident report putting the time of death at 2.13 a.m. | |
| There have been no arrests made and no weapons have been recovered, and cops from the force said that they are continuing to search for any leads. | |
| An unfortunate ending, not something to be mocked. | |
| People are on his Twitter feed laughing and asking if he's changed his opinion on an uptick in crimes. | |
| It's very sad that people can delude themselves into not recognizing problems because they are so committed to a political belief. | |
| And unfortunately, that is how he is going to be remembered as somebody who defended | |
| the criminality in his city, you know, and now has met an unfortunate end, now has become | |
| a statistic, a statistic that he defended ruthlessly on his Twitter feed, mocking conservatives | |
| for being concerned about crime. | |
| Perhaps he deluded himself so far that he didn't take certain precautions. | |
| I am guessing that his is going to be a statistic that is, they were likely just trying to rob | |
| him and things went haywire and they shot and they killed him. | |
| So there was a lesson in all that, that you should never become so deluded and so committed | |
| to a political belief that you can't see what is in front of you. | |
| And as I said, his ending might have been different had he had been committed to being safe in a very unsafe city. | |
| Philadelphia is an unsafe city. | |
| Of that there can be no question. | |
| And while I understand he did a lot of work in the community with drug addicts, he should not be confused that a lot of the times the people that are committing these crimes are also drug addicts. | |
| And the best way to deal with these individuals is to lock them up, not to release them back into the streets because you feel empathetic or that you feel compassionate. | |
| All right, if you liked this video, you are going to like the full episode even better. |
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