Reaction from 'Fox & Friends' police panel: Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon Jr., Blue Lives Matter New York City founder Joseph Imperatrice and former NYPD Lieutenant Darrin Porcher.
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what they were trained on,
what they were trained on
exactly what that training
module is step by stem example
right to the second on what
these officers did on that
scene.
They dont have the ability to
go off script, say and to do
different things.
They have to follow exactly the
way they are trained
will thats the Rochester New
York police president defending
the actions of their officers of
Daniel Prude.
This comes as recently released
body cam triggered violent
protests across the city.
Here is Suffolk, county police
and Joseph
trees.
As you look at the video, the
Daniel Prude was this police
procedure proper change, proper
execution, or do you see mistakes
made that led to the death of
Daniel Prude
as a former police
practitioner? I saw this as a
sound practice.
The placing of a spit hood over
this individual is something
that runs within the performance
of the directors of that
department.
One thing thats being left out.
This happened in March.
This was at the apex of the
Covid 19 pandemic.
Therefore, a septic environment
was of optimum importance
when we saw the way the officers
engaged this individual. It was
in accordance with the
departments, rules and
regulations.
One of the things I believe that
the police chief and the mayor
had agreed that the
investigation was sound and it
was behind them.
This is subsequently reemerged
and thats what we are seeing.
The fanfare in connection with
with the extreme left thats
protesting this death as a
result,
yeah Errol. This was a
moment where Daniel Prude was
allegedly saying he had
coronavirus weighs spitting
seem to give indication why they
used a spit hood.
What about the process of using
a body weight to lean on a
suspect,
its similar, not exact but
similar, to what we saw in the
George Floyd case? Is that also
good procedure, leaning on a
suspect when they are on the
ground?
You know, first of all, and
thank you for having me on.
You know its very important
that if the officers feel that
there is a threat to themselves
or the individuals continuing to
get up, we do know this
individual had mental health
issues, which could be a reason
why they wanted to try and keep
him in place.
I believe he was partially nude
or completely nude,
and so you know we dont know
what was going on in those
police officers minds,
but we do know that whats going
on throughout our country. You
know the police are using
reasonable force to really try
to restrain individuals and also
from self harm or harming
others
will yes
Joseph. I want to ask you about
this.
There is movement in New York
City when it comes to crime.
Look at this one hundred and sixty six percent rise
in shootings. In August
forty seven percent rise in murders.
This comes at the same time that
Governor Andrew Cuomo is
introducing or suggesting you
will not have indoor dining in
New York City until there is a
four thousand person Nypd force to
ensure social distancing inside
of restaurants,
so crime on the rise, but we
dont open restaurants again
until four thousand cops can be out
there. Ensuring people are six
feet apart.
I want to get your reaction.
Joseph
politicians like him pick and
choose when they want officers
to enforce the law.
What happens? Is they pit the
officers against the community,
which is never good?
We saw the situation with Mayor
De Blasio when he wanted
officers in New York City to
enforce the rule and that
didnt go too well and officers
got in trouble for doing their
jobs.
Allow the business owners, be
adults, listen to the rules and
function and provide food on the
table for their families.
Everything would work out
perfectly
will are officers want ones you
want to send in four thousand shops to
gotten sure people are six feet
apart.
Is this where officers and Nypd
resources should be allocated in
the current crime environment?
Joseph?
Absolutely? Not
first of all, we have shootings
on the rise.
They just canceled the class of
one thousand two hundred officers.
They used to have something
called separation impact where
high visibility to deter crimes.
You want officers to go out
there and enforce the laws in
New York City, where shootings
are happening every single day
in communities of color.
We have to go to the
neighborhoods target. The crime
get the bad guys off the street
and not worry whether or not
somebody is sitting down and
having dinner with a facebook
mask
will. Let me return to Rochester
for a moment.
I would love to put this back to
you officer Porcher.
We see protests rising in
intensity.
Obviously we see what we have
seen in Portland.
In Seattle we see highways being
shut down there. The state police
are pulling people out of cars
to get the traffic back moving
in Rochester. In response to the
Daniel Prude Incident.
Last night there was videos of
protesters, flipping tables,
running people out of
restaurants.
How should law enforcement be
handling these escalating
protests?
We need to put a moratorium
on riots.
A protest is if its a lawfully
conducted protest and it falls
within the pursue of the first
amendment, thats sound,
but rioters we need to bring.
We need to eradicate these riots
and stop them
when we see what just happened
here in New York City recently,
we had a contingent of rioters
that converged on a vehicle and
those people in the car were
under siege and they had to do
what was necessary to get away.
So when we look at what is
happening in Portland, Seattle
and Chicago
democratic leaders have done
nothing and doing nothing has
subsequently led to this
criminal behavior festering,
subsequently creating more
people that are hurt. As a
result,
will these protests escalating
into riots.
Transcript generated on 2020-09-08.