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Secretary, can you talk a little bit about the experience of the officer and some of his background? | |
| How much training did he have? | ||
| How much training in these types of situations did he have, even if he's from the region? | ||
| Yeah, I'm not going to get specific to this officer, but he's an experienced officer that has served a number of years, and we recognize that he acted according to his training. | ||
| And we have expected all the policies and procedures of review will be exactly that he acted appropriately to protect his life and the life of his colleagues and fellow law enforcement officers that were there and people that were surrounding him. | ||
| I'd like to get your reaction on some of the rhetoric here in New York City. | ||
| Mayor Zoro Mangani responded to the shooting yesterday saying that this is only the latest horror in a year full of cruelty. | ||
| He called it an attack on us all and that New York stands with immigrants today and every day. | ||
| Also, council members last night at the protest called this fascism. | ||
| The New York City's public advocate, Jamani Williams, said that your administration is, quote, doing the devil's work, and he asked New York City to stand up and show up. | ||
| Quote, it's going to be difficult and there are going to be casualties. | ||
| And the last comment that was made last night at the protest was from New York State Representative Alex Boros, also a Democrat. | ||
| Quote, not only was the ICE agent's hand on the gun, but Secretary Noam's hand was on the gun. | ||
| President Trump's hand was on the gun. | ||
| What is your response to New York Democratic leaders, those particular comments, and the protesters that are outside of the country? | ||
| I would say those comments are why we're standing where we are today. | ||
| That kind of language and that kind of provocative talk, inciting people to take action and perpetuate violence in some cases, is unacceptable, and especially of elected leaders. | ||
| We have a responsibility to state the facts, to go out and enforce the law. | ||
| Your mayor just said in that statement that he was going to stand with illegal people who have broken our law before he's going to put New York City citizens first. | ||
| His job and why he was elected was to protect the people who live here that had the opportunity to vote for him and have the opportunity to live in this city. | ||
| They pay their taxes. | ||
| They go to work every day. | ||
| And instead, the mayor in that statement chose to stand with illegals instead of those individuals who just want the chance to raise their families in New York City and have a part of the American dream. | ||
| I'd like to know where they've been and why they're not out on the streets investigating all of these people that are harassing and inciting violence on law enforcement officers right now. | ||
| They're allowing the situation to be volatile. | ||
| They're not doing their work. | ||
| They haven't for years, and maybe they should get to work a little bit on the unprecedented fraud that we've seen in Minnesota and in Minneapolis by people that stole from American citizens and diverted funds away from vulnerable people and programs and services that they needed and put it into their own pockets. | ||
| Minnesota is a train wreck. | ||
| It is corrupt, and it was under the leadership of Governor Walls and this mayor that they allowed it to happen and they let criminals and illegals and people abuse programs and steal the money and now they're allowing violence to go forward on the streets as well. | ||
| well i won't put a blanket statement out like those other individuals will What I would say is I welcome them to come and help us. | ||
| Come help us make sure that the streets are safe, that laws are enforced, and that we can do the right thing to make sure that American citizens come first. | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
| They have not been cut out. | ||
| They don't have any jurisdiction in this investigation. | ||
| Yes, go ahead. | ||
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Could you give us some more? | |
| I'm going to speak to this individual right now. | ||
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Thank you, Secretary. | |
| Jay Dow from WPIX TV. | ||
| How do you respond to Americans who have been listening to your comments that this was an act of domestic terrorism, that the officer was hitting the city? | ||
| Anytime you take something. | ||
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Is in direct contradiction to what they are seeing and watching in the multiple angles that have been released 24 hours. | |
| This vehicle was used to hit this officer. | ||
| It was used as a weapon, and the officer feels as though his life was in jeopardy. | ||
| It was used to perpetuate a violent act that this officer took action to protect himself and to protect his fellow law enforcement officers. | ||
| So we'll let this continue to go forward and follow the same policies and procedures that every use of force situation does. | ||
| But we've had almost over a hundred times that these vehicles have been used to ram law enforcement officers and to do damage and to harm them. | ||
| When you take an action and use a weapon to harm someone and to incite violence against them and try to cause them injury or death, then it needs to be labeled exactly what it was. | ||
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Do you believe the use of force in this instance was commensurate with both actions of that vehicle and the driver? | |
| I would say that when these individuals use their vehicles to try to ram our law enforcement and put their lives in jeopardy, that that law enforcement officer has to make a decision to protect his life and the individuals around him as well. | ||
| Yes. | ||
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What did you make of Tom Homan's comments yesterday that we should wait for an investigation before determining, as you have, that in this incident it was self-defense and that he felt that his life was in danger? | |
| You know, I didn't see those comments, but from what I understand, he also put out a statement later as well. | ||
| So I'll let Tom speak to that. | ||
| But all of us are on the same page in the fact that this law enforcement officer followed his training and that he defended and acted in defense of his life and those around him. | ||
| Yes. | ||
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Hi, Darla Miles, ABC7, New York. | |
| Two quick questions. | ||
| First, you said these protesters had been following the ICE agents. | ||
| Do you have a little bit more of a timeline and can you share with us some of those other initial encounters prior to the fatal shooting? | ||
| And then secondly, can you speak to the closure of the ICE office at Rikers by Leon Donnie? | ||
| There will be more details coming out as this goes forward in the coming days. | ||
| And I'll talk more about that closure in the future. | ||
| Is there anything else? | ||
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So can you say that there was how many times a day they had been threatened? | |
| Like how many other times they had? | ||
| It had been ongoing throughout the day. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Yes. | ||
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Thank you, Madam Secretary. | |
| Whatever happened in Minneapolis, a mother of three is dead, an American citizen. | ||
| Do you have a message for her family today? | ||
| Yes, absolutely. | ||
| And I reiterated this yesterday when I had my press conference in Minneapolis. | ||
| I asked everybody not to just pray for the officer, but also pray for the deceased family and her loved ones as well. | ||
| It was a tragic situation that I hope we never see happen again. | ||
| That's why I'm encouraging all elected leaders to work together so that we can be cooperative in getting dangerous criminals off of our streets. | ||
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Do you feel like that you go in and you go in with a lot of publicity about these operations? | |
| Do you feel like that needs to be revisited so that maybe you go in a little more covertly or do you need to change the approach at all? | ||
| I would say that we have all different kinds of law enforcement operations ongoing with the department at all times. | ||
| We don't telegraph what they are, the details or specifics, or where we're going to be operating. | ||
| I would say that there's different tactics utilized for what's appropriate for the situation and the criminal activity we see in a city. | ||
| Last question. | ||
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Do you know the details of Rene Good's harassment of ICE officers early in the day? | |
| Were any of those details shared with you? | ||
| Because apparently it wasn't just that one incident. | ||
| It was earlier in the day as well. | ||
| Yes, it was. | ||
| And that will be a part of some of the details that we will be sharing in the future. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you all for being here. | ||
| And I appreciate you focusing on this operation and the 54 criminals that we have gotten off the streets because of the work of this team behind me. | ||
| We thank all of them for their service and recognize it. | ||
| Again, I'll remind you: tomorrow is law enforcement day. | ||
| Please take the time to thank a law enforcement officer who's out there keeping us and our families safe. | ||
| Have a wonderful day. | ||
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| Maryland Democratic Representative Stenny Hoyer, who previously served as House Majority Leader, announced that he would not seek re-election in November. | ||
| In remarks on the House floor here, he speaks about his more than four decades in Congress. | ||
| Mr. Scalise, where's my one minute when I need it? | ||
| Mr. Speaker, my dear and close friend Steve Womack, Madam Speaker, thank you for being here. | ||
| My colleagues, my dear friends, Mr. Scalese, the majority leader, and Mr. Emmer, the majority whip, thank you for being here. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I arise today with obviously mixed emotions and reluctant conviction. | ||
| There's a true story I've told many times over the past 60 years. | ||
| It's about a young man, myself, who was a student at the University of Maryland College Park just a few miles from this place. | ||
| As a freshman, like many young people, I lacked a vision for my future. | ||
| I nearly flunked out of college and didn't even roll in the 1958 fall semester. | ||
| Fortunately for me, I re-enrolled the following spring. | ||
| There was a spring convocation April 27, 1959. | ||
| Classes were canceled from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. so that we could all go hear the guest speaker. | ||
| Frankly, I had planned not to attend. | ||
| However, I was walking up the hill near Coldfield House where the event was located and I saw our guest drive up in a 1958 Pontiac convertible. | ||
| That, Mr. Speaker, was a cool car. | ||
| So cool that I decided to go to this convocation. | ||
| That walk was my road to Damascus. | ||
| It changed my life. | ||
| The Speaker was John F. Kennedy. | ||
| In his remarks, he urged us to do our duty in those days of world chaos. | ||
| In particular, he charged us students to become more active in our communities. | ||
| Nancy heard those same words. | ||
| Like many hundreds of thousands of young people, I was deeply inspired by Senator Kennedy and his words. | ||
| Jack Kemp, who was my colleague when I first came here, had a similar story. | ||
| A week later, I changed my major from business to political science. | ||
| Seven years later, in 1966, five months out of Georgetown Law School, I was elected to the Maryland State Senate. | ||
| 15 years after that, in 1981, the voters of the 5th District elected me to the United States House of Representatives. | ||
| I stand here now after some 60 years in public service, including nearly 45 years as a member of this House. | ||
| I won elections and lost a couple, celebrated triumphs and suffered setbacks, enjoyed friendships and endured hardships. | ||
| As the song says, some days are diamonds, some days are stone. | ||
| Happily, I've experienced more diamonds than stone. | ||
| Shakespeare advised us all, this, above all else, to thine own self be true. | ||
| And it must follow as night to day, thou canst not be false to any man or to any woman. | ||
| In that vein, Mr. Speaker, I have decided not to seek another term in the People's House. | ||
| I make this decision with sadness, for I love this House, an institution the framers designed to reflect the will of the American people and to serve as the guardian of their liberty and their democracy. | ||
| Through the past 45 years, I have come to know many good, decent, patriotic members chosen by their neighbors to represent them. | ||
| They come from both parties and all parts of the ideological spectrum. | ||
| The Congress I entered in in 1981 was somewhat different. | ||
| Most Republicans and Democrats worked together in a collegial, productive way. | ||
| The leaders of the House, Tip O'Neill and Bob Michael, fostered that environment. | ||
| It was, of course, not a Congress without conflict. | ||
| In the year to come, I will have much more to say about the issues we have grappled with and the ways this House has changed during my time. | ||
| At the outset, I said that I spoke with reluctant conviction. | ||
| That reluctance is because I am deeply concerned that this House is not living up to the Founders' goals. | ||
| I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to examine their conscience, renew their courage, and carry out the responsibilities that the first article of the Constitution demands. | ||
| Only in that way can we ensure that our 250 years will be a preface to a stronger, brighter beacon in a free and principled democracy. | ||
| A nation of laws, not of men. | ||
| A nation respected around the world for its strength, certainly, but even more for the ideals it represents and the justice with which it acts. | ||
| That effort must extend beyond this House. | ||
| I fear that America is heading not toward greatness, but towards smallness, pettiness, divisiveness, lawnness, and disdainfulness. | ||
| We must respect and love one another. | ||
| We must remember that we are not great or unique because we say we're great, but because we are just, generous, and fair. | ||
| I hope that spirit can guide us the rest of this Congress, because I still have much I want to do in the coming year, not least of which is keeping the government open. | ||
| To do that, we must send all our appropriations bills to the President in a bipartisan, timely fashion. | ||
| There are many people I intend to thank in the coming months, but there are a few I will recognize now. | ||
| First, to my family, which has borne much of the burden of my service. | ||
| Stand up, family. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| My late wife, Judy, who died too young and gave so much. | ||
| My beloved daughters, Susan, Stephanie, and Ann, who paid a price for dad's absences. | ||
| To my grandchildren and great-grandchildren for giving me great joy. | ||
| My mother, who thankfully lived to see her son become the president of the Maryland State Senate. | ||
| To my staff for serving me and their nation with great loyalty and ability. | ||
| To my colleagues for trusting me with leadership. | ||
| To the people of Prince George's County, particularly the African American community, without whom I would not have won my elections. | ||
| To the people of the 5th District who gave me a majority of their votes 23 times. | ||
| And to my wife, Dr. Elaine Kmark, who has made my life whole and happy. | ||
| Thank you, babe, and to God for sending me down this road so many years ago that I call the road to Damascus. | ||
| I want to thank all of my colleagues. | ||
| Extraordinary people, decent people, people whom their neighbors respect and sent them here. | ||
| The only way you got here was your neighbors said they wanted you to represent them. | ||
| Thank you all. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, with tremendous gratitude, I yield back. |