Kellyanne Conway on Violence in Cities: Americans Want Police-Presence in Their Communities

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CONWAY: “And then just overnight you have allegedly the Seattle police chief Carmen Best, who has been on your network many times, after serving 28 years and becoming a police chief there, African-American woman, is resigning because the council is making good on its promise to cut the budget there for law enforcement. It would have reduced over 100 officers. You know, this is in the shadow of the Gallup poll last week that showed 86% of Americans want the same or more police presence in their communities, and that includes 83% of Hispanic Americans and 81% of African-Americans. And what’s really regrettable is I see these mayors in their press conferences and really shameless, but not blameless and not nameless. What the most common word they say in their press conferences? Not police, not sympathy. ‘Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. We will not have the President and the feds here.’ Everybody is flexing their social media muscle. They are all so tough. And it just means that people are shoveling hate at police officers, shoveling hate at people who work here. I think that people are also worried that Donald Trump is going to get four more years and they’re starting to lose it.”