St. Louis officer killed by barricaded gunman; Fox News contributor Dan Bongino weighs in.
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Brian, we are back with this Fox
Brian. We are back with this Fox
news alert,
not good news.
St Louis police officer has
died, shot in the head by a
barricaded gunman
29 year old, Bow Hannah with the
department
first officer killed in the line
of duty since two thousand and eleven
Steve his family has released a
letter saying in part he is a
hero to many, but most
importantly, to his loving wife
and three incredible children,
Emily a second officer shot in
the knee and out of the
hospital,
the suspect is in custody, but no
charges have been filed.
Brian lets bring in Dan
Bongino Fox NEWS, contributor,
former secret service agent and
Nypd officer.
We want to talk to you about the
myriad of riots and protests
taking place over the weekend,
but then we wake up to this
news.
You know Brian tough, ask
yourselves right.
How did we get to this point?
I think we can all agree. Emily,
Brian and Steve all growing up
played cops and robbers.
We wanted to be the cop right,
noble wanted to be the robber.
How did we get to the point
where our education and system
and political leaders and our
culture has failed this country
so deeply and profoundly that
now there are people who
actually want to be the robber
and the cops are somehow the bad
guy.
I mean think about it.
The worst moments of your life
right,
if something, God forbid, were to
happen,
a crime committed against you,
you are in a car accident,
your child is missing,
you are robbed.
Who is the first one there
its? Not your mom,
its, not your dad,
you may want them to be your mom
and dad
its not
its the cops,
its its the police officers
every single day.
You know these are the heroes
and it really it rips. The
country is being shredded.
You know what do they say?
Sizzles is a thin crust on a you
have Cano.
These are the heroes.
I will never forget
September 11th, right
hearing, all the stories of the
emergency services cops and
truck seven, the Swat guys
essentially running into the
building.
Do you know what I can never get
out of my head after that?
That truck seven,
those cops Brian, those were
some of the same guys who turned
out of the precinct. I worked in
the 7 5 Nypd police officer.
Can I never forget the idea that
I may have walked past some of
those ideas who are now no
longer with us.
These are the real heroes
we have got to fix something in
this broken culture. We have now
Steve absolutely.
You know Dan. For a very long
time,
people referred to New York City
as the safest, big city in
America,
but that is quaint. Now, because
we are certain liver heading, the
wrong direction:
the New York City, PBA Police,
Benevolent association. Yesterday
morning, at this time, tweeted
this out,
twenty five people were shot from
Saturday morning to 700 a dot m
Sunday morning.
That makes fifty eight people shot this
week,
thats one hundred percent increase in
shooting victims from the same
week last year,
and then there was a story here
in New York City about how,
yesterday the day before
yesterday, 1100 in the morning
on a subway platform in broad
daylight right over here, 63Rd
and Lexington, a guy tried to
rape a 24 year old woman and
nobody. You know everybody is
going hey dont, do that
the guy got away. Eventually,
he was apprehended with the use,
I think, of facial recognition,
software up town,
but nonetheless there is a
feeling that the city is
spiraling out of control, and
that is why it is currently
impossible to book a U haul,
because everybody is trying to
get the hell out of this town
yeah
I mean this is Gotham
its like a really bad dystopian
Batman book from a dark knight
series or something
this is insane
its attributable Steve to
very real things.
I was a member of the PBA as a
police officer, myself,
im glad theyre putting this
out there
simple
when I was with the police
Department, Rudy Giuliani, and to
be fair falling into the Michael
Bloomberg era as well.
They followed broken windows,
policing.
You jumped the turnstile.
You went to jail
years before it didnt work that
way Steve
you didnt, take people to jail
for jumping the turnstile,
the attitude not serious. Let
them go! You dont want to take a
cop off the street,
the guy who jumped the turnstile
same guy with a firearm who was
going to shoot or rob someone on
the train
with you, punched them for
jumping the turnstile.
He didnt commit the robbery.
This was not complicated.
They followed this for ten years
twenty years I would say,
and all of that success as you
guys are witnessing sadly, first
hand with our officers and
studios in New York,
all of it something dismantled
by De Blasio, almost overnight
its heart breaking to watch
Emily thats exactly right,
Dan.
One note quick on that subway
note:
he walls, a repeat offender.
He had been arrested over fourteen
times.
I want to take a step back and
get your thoughts too on the
global look on the level of
organization. Behind these
violent protests.
Now we have g dot, Op Ken Buck,
doubling down on Rand Pauls
calls for an actual department
of Justice Investigation into
the funding of these violent
protests.
Now he tweeted out, he said the
Justice Department needs to open
up an investigation into who is
funding these violent riots.
What are your thoughts on that
Dan?
Well, after walking out of
the White House for the
acceptance speech event with
President Trump on Friday into
salute madness?
I think you could see that
video,
thank God by the way border
patrol guys who walked with me
and my wife.
That was not a protest.
It was not a protest
period.
Okay,
anyone in the media who is
telling you that that was some
kind of forget, peaceful,
throw that word out the window.
What you saw out there was an
organized mob of people
im not kidding guys.
I know its morning
threatening to rape. My wife
will make you watch
calling my wife, the B word
think not just once. By the way
that video you saw- which is my
wife, I told them get them on
tape, because people need to see
this,
you need to see first hand from
what my wife saw
an immigrant to this country, who
escaped the drug ravaged streets
of Coley Columbia as a kid to
walk out onto the streets of an
american city in Washington,
D, DOT c
outlines of our White House and
be called a hooker, be called.
I cant, even say it because its
a morning show-
and we have FCC rules here-
the things that were said to me
and my wife were disgusting.
People threatening, I will meet
you outside of the hotel in the
morning.
The only thing that stopped
them im not kidding was art,
Brandon, Judd and border patrol
guys who walked with us as we
walked a mile long gauntlet of
animals.
These were not protests.
There may be peaceful protests
going on during the day and God
bless you.
The next day I heard there was a
protest at the mall was very
peaceful
good for you.
That was not a protest
that was a violent mob of
aggressive maniacs. Trying to
frighten the hell out of
american citizens because they
had the gull to attend a
political event,
Brian Dan think about this.
So many of them you cant, get
violent with them.
You are not going to end up on
top
plus you have your wife with
you. Forget it
put that out of your head
thats what they want.
Brian believe me: it happened
to me
thats their job,
someone is paying them,
someone is taking them and then
trying to make America better.
They are desperate to get to
you, respond and punch one of
them in the face, so they can sue
you and say: look violent Fox
news, host attacks, peaceful
protesters,
thats, listen for as painful
as it was for me to allow these
lunatics to call my wife these
things and to sit there. All I
could do was get between them
and her.
They want you.
They want you desperately to
respond.
These are they know exactly
what to do?
They want violence,
they pray for it,
and the best thing can you do is
get it on tape and show America
exactly who these people are.
They are not protesting
anything Brian,
no one even asked us how we feel
about black lives or anything
like that.
Brian. Listen!
We rolled that tape. When you
there were, and already over
time
to think full circle.
The american people are
Outradgesd by that thats. Why
Joe Biden left his basement?
He knows there is only one
politician condemning it and is
he a Republican
and they were sitting on the
sideline
and thats why you have got to
speak out
and I tweeted last night- and I
meant it-
you should have spoke out before
the city started- burning
its no good to speak out now.
You are three months too late,
sorry,
Brian! There is no sincerity in
it,
Steve Dan. Thank you very much
for dropping by and sharing the
story.
Sorry, your family went through.
Transcript generated on 2020-08-31.