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Join Jim and Greg as they highlight the best moments of Tuesday evening at the Republican National Convention, including a pardon, a citizenship ceremony, and rising GOP figure. They also lament the latest destruction and violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin, following a police-involved shooting a few days ago. And they react to a sudden call from CNN host Don Lemon for Joe Biden to condemn the violence in cities because “it’s showing up in the polling.”
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When black people with violent criminal records and especially when currently holding a lethal weapon in their hand, don’t seem to think anything should happen to them if they refuse to drop the weapon and instead reach into their car when ordered not to, possibly to obtain an even more lethal weapon, POLICE reform is not the issue.
Remember, Jim Geraghty is always wrong.
He praised Barack Obama’s “good intentions”, when addressing racial violence during his eight years in office.
But this time, Greg pulled him up short, reminding him that Obama’s statements, like “Trayvon Martin could have been my son”, usually made things worse.
I’ll have to listen again, I don’t remember Greg saying that.
Democrats always make things worse.
Okay, he did say that.
And maybe I keep missing this in the coverage, but wasn’t this guy Jacob Blake is currently accused of “third-degree sexual assault, trespassing and disorderly conduct in connection with domestic abuse”, and was armed with a knife, and about to get in a car with children, potentially putting them at grave risk? That in his recent past he was also know for “pulling a gun”?:
The stories seem to only be concerned that the children saw what happened, not about what might have happened to them. There is a reasonable case to be made that the officer was protecting those kids, as well as himself, his fellow officers and the public.
Also true. But either way, that the kids saw their father get shot, sure as hell wasn’t the COPS’ fault.