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The video went viral.
And the punches never stopped.
A New York City Police officer tangled and wrestled with a 16-year-old boy for what seemed like the entire round of a boxing match at Madison Square Garden.
Cops finally subdued the teen — charging him with assault on a police officer and resisting arrest. Police say the teen jumped a turnstile in a subway station. Officers had previously arrested him for possession of a loaded gun and a robbery.
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This is just one example of recent assaults on police.
An assailant shot and killed Clark County, Ohio Sheriff’s Deputy Matthew Yates over the weekend. The entire police department of Kenly, N.C., quit recently, citing hostile work conditions.
Congress is taking notice.
The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing Tuesday on protecting police. Rising crime means this is an election issue.
Democratic pollster Cornell Belcher joined NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday and called on Democrats to talk about saving children’s lives and a women’s right to choose ahead of the midterm elections.
(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
Democrats facing competitive races know they need to put some distance between themselves and the progressive “defund the police” mantra. The slogan matured into the political mainstream two years ago after the murder of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter protests.
“We are funding the police and we should. But our work cannot end there,” said Judiciary Committee Chairman and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., pivoting to firearms. “We cannot ignore the dominant role of guns in assault and killings of police officers.”
Republicans are also converting violence against police into an election issue.
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“The rise in anti-police rhetoric in the summer of 2020, the progressive…
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