DETROIT AND MANY HAVE FLOODED
BASEMENTS.
WHAT SOME ARE UP AGAINST.
>> DEVIN: FIRST, PRESIDENT TRUMP
PUTS DETROIT AND CRIME RATES IN
THE SPOTLIGHT DURING LAST
NIGHT’S REPUBLICAN NATIONAL
CONVENTION.
TOPPING NEWS AT 6:00, THE
COMMENTS CAME DURING HIS SPEECH
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
>> KAREN: HE CRITICIZED SEVERAL
CITIES, INCLUDING DETROIT.
GRANT, ALL OF THEM HAD ONE THING
IN COMMON.
>> YEAH, KAREN, THAT THING IS,
THEY HAVE DEMOCRATIC MAYORS AND
THE PRESIDENT LEANED INTO HIS
LAW AND ORDER MESSAGE LAST NIGHT
POINTING TO THE NATION’S CITIES
WITH HIGH CRIME RATES AND WHERE
POLICE AND PROTESTERS HAVE
CLASHED OVER THE SISTER.
DETROIT PRACTICALLY TOPS THAT
LIST.
>> DURING HIS ACCEPTANCE SPEECH
LAST NIGHT, THE PRESIDENT
PUTTING THE BLAME OF THE SPIKE
IN CRIME IN MAJOR AMERICAN
CITIES AT THE FEET OF DEMOCRATIC
MAYORS, INCLUDING DETROIT MAYOR
MIKE DUGGAN.
HIS COMMENTS COMING AFTER DAYS
OF PROTESTS IN OPPOSITION OF THE
PRESENCE OF FEDERAL OFFICERS IN
DOWNTOWN DETROIT, WHICH LED TO
DOZENS OF ARRESTS AND THE SAME
DAY DPD ASKED FOR HELP DURING
THE SHOOTING IN JULY.
>> THERE ARE VIOLENCE AND DANGER
IN MANY OF THE DEMOCRAT-RUN
CITIES IN AMERICA.
THIS PROBLEM COULD EASILY BE
FIXED IF THEY WANTED TO.
JUST CALL.
WE’RE READY TO GO IN.
WE’LL TAKE CARE OF YOUR PROBLEM
WE’LL TAKE CARE OF YOUR PROBLEM
IN A MATTER OF HOURS, JUST CALL.
WE HAVE TO WAIT TILL THEY CALL.
>> MAYOR DUGGAN AND POLICE CHIEF
JAMES CRAIG SUPPORTED THE
CURRENT NUMBER OF FEDERAL
OFFICERS IN DETROIT SENT TO THE
CITY AS PART AFTER SEVEN-CITY
CAMPAIGN CALLED OPERATION
LEGEND.
WHEN ASKED WHETHER HE FELT THE
NEED TO CALL THE PRESIDENT FOR
MORE FEDERAL INTERVENTION, MAYOR
MORE FEDERAL INTERVENTION, MAYOR
MIKE DUGGAN POINTED TO THE
ADMINISTRATION’S RESPONSE TO THE
PANDEMIC.
THE ADMINISTRATION TOLD US TO
JUST CALL IF WE NEED HELP
RESPONDING TO COVID.
WE CALLED ARE STILL WAITING.
NOW, THE PRESIDENT IS HOPING
THAT IF HE FOCUSES ON CRIME
RATES AND RACIAL UNREST, IT WILL
HELP HIM IN THE SUBURBS.
AROUND METRO DETROIT THOSE
SUBURBS WERE SOME OF THE MOST
SUBURBS WERE SOME OF THE MOST
CRUCIAL TO HIS VICTORY IN 2016
