VP JD Vance Asked Point Blank If Trump Will Send Soldiers To Atlanta After D.C. Crackdown

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At an event in Peachtree, Georgia on Thursday, Vice President JD Vance was asked if the Trump administration would send soldiers to Atlanta after the crackdown in DC.

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00:00And let's do a few more questions here, and then I'm going to have to hit the road.

00:08Sir.

00:10Where have we got a microphone?

00:11Good afternoon, Vice President.

00:12Raul Valli, WAVE Radio here in Atlanta.

00:15I wanted to ask you about something, your final topic on safety.

00:18Do you see the administration putting soldiers in the city of Atlanta?

00:23Well, look, what we've done is we have focused on Washington, D.C., because it's a federal

00:28city under our jurisdiction, but we certainly hope that whether it's Atlanta or anywhere

00:33else, people are going to look around and say, we don't have to live like this.

00:36It turns out if you just go and arrest the bad guys, you can have cities and streets that

00:40are safe again, and we hope that people see what we're doing in Washington, D.C., and follow

00:45our example all across the country.

00:47I'm a big fan.

00:48Look, I grew up in a small town.

00:50I love our beautiful countryside and our rural areas, but I love our big cities, too.

00:55And I want you to be able to go shopping or go and get a nice meal with your family without

00:59the fear that you're going to get mugged or even worse, because you have the audacity

01:03to take your family out for a day in one of our great American cities.

01:08We don't have to live like this.

01:10All we need is politicians who actually care more about public safety for American citizens

01:16than they do for violent criminals.

01:18In Washington, D.C., in 10 days, 10 days of what Donald Trump has done in Washington,

01:24D.C., did you know armed robberies are down 55 percent in our nation's capital?

01:28It's amazing.

01:34You know, murders in Washington, D.C. are down over 35 percent.

01:38Again, that's in a week and a half of just taking crime seriously.

01:41And there's something, you know, Democrats had this weird sickness in the head five,

01:49six years ago where they decided that all law enforcement was racist.

01:53You know who suffers the most, especially in our urban areas, when you don't allow the

01:58police to enforce the laws against bad guys?

02:01It is the good citizens, disproportionately black Atlantans, who suffer the most from high

02:08violent crime, because you've got more or at least a disproportionate number of black

02:12Georgians living in Atlanta compared to other places.

02:15So when you empower police to prosecute violent criminals, that's not racism.

02:21That's empowering everybody, black or white, to live safely in their communities.

02:25And that should be the God-given right of every American citizen to walk down the street

02:30in safety and comfort.

02:32God bless you, sir.

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