Governor Wes Moore has the best response to Trump's deployment of the military under the pretext of fighting crime

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Maryland Governor Wes Moore joined Ari Melber today:

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...you know, when I think about the president's comments that he literally made from the oval office yesterday where he was talking about how this is a good political issue for for them to use and utilize when it comes to to the midterm elections.

Uh, you know, one thing that is and again as we hear it for all of us who had to live and exist in these communities that have been chronically neglected, who have had to live and exist and grow up in communities where we knew that our safety was not a concern for people in very high perches and people who were in power, for people who knew they they spoke about us and never having conversations with us.

Unfortunately, the comments of the president of the United States just validates what so many of us felt as we were coming up inside of those communities that there actually is not a concern about our safety, that this is just a game - and it rings in incredibly incredibly frustrating for those of us who actually are serious about this work.

When I first came on board, I remember the year before I became the governor in 2022, Baltimore City had was averaging almost a homicide a day. That for the eight years under my predecessor, we saw the homicide rate nearly double. The non-fatal shooting rate did double.

And we came in with a completely new philosophy about the way we're going to address violence and public safety in our community, that we're going to work with local elected officials like the mayor and the state's attorney. And we made historic investments in local law enforcement, historic investments in technology, historic investments in the community, and has produced not just encouraging results, but historic drops in violent crime in Baltimore City.

It's because we actually take the work seriously and we're not seeing that from the White House right now.

It's the reason why I actually invited him and I said come you know especially when when ignorant comments are made the only way to address ignorance is education. So come and learn come and spend time in our communities. Come and spend time with community violence intervention groups like we are us who are actually on the ground doing the work. Come and spend time with our local law enforcement who are on the beat; come and spend time with the mayor and the state's attorney; and come see what we see as we walk our communities every single day.

And of course, the, you know, the response that I received from the president of the of the United States, uh, with his with his, you know, with his laughing crowd around him was just simply making a snide personal comment about me.

And so it does become very frustrating when we actually know what can work. We know that instead of doing things like cutting $30 million of gun violence prevention like the president has just done for the state of Maryland, that we know if he could do things like invest in license plate readers and actually pass federal legislation that bans ghost guns, things we have been calling for.

But they have just scoffed off because they said bring in the National Guard to, you know, to to, you know, to do to pick up litter is somehow a better strategy to fight crime inside of our society. We know that there is a better way and we know that if we actually had a partner inside of Washington, we could demonstrate what a better way looks like to continue producing the kind of results that the people in our communities hope for.

[SuzyandPuffpuff]

1. Spot on

Bless this man

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2. he is right on

...always the same decent, engaging, determined pol, in every situation or event.