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In response to a Saturday shooting in the heart of New York City in broad daylight, which left two women and a child injured, New York City Republican mayoral candidate Fernando Mateo blamed “radical left Democrats” for the uptick in crime and offered a cash reward for information regarding the perpetrator’s whereabouts.

A group of California residents came together for a pro-law enforcement rally and parade on Saturday that started in La Quinta and ended up in Palm Springs.

Detroit Police Chief James Craig will reportedly announce his retirement Monday and may declare he is running for Michigan governor.

Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed House Bill 286 into law on Friday that prevents law enforcement from being defunded in the state.

A group of House Democrats, including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ayanna Presley (D-MA), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), are asking House appropriators to defund a police program in order to help criminal illegal aliens evade deportation from the United States.

Terrorist mobs have destroyed 25 police emergency response stations in Bogotá, Colombia, alone as of Wednesday night in a spate of violent attacks nationwide. Eyewitnesses say the assailants were attempting to burn police officers alive and, in some cases, succeeded in setting them on fire.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) says that unlike other states trying to defund their police departments, he is offering bonuses to every police officer, firefighter, paramedic, and emergency medical technician (EMT) in the state.

Sacramento is set to push back against the “defund the police” movement while planning to reveal its highest police budget on record.

Police and law enforcement agencies have a higher approval rating than President Joe Biden.

Representative Kat Cammack (R-FL) on Tuesday weighed in on the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which has passed the House but stalled in the Senate.

Monday on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) railed against the defund the police movement in the wake of recent police-involved shootings.

A poll released Monday by Fox News shows the majority of voters oppose reducing any type of funding that goes towards police departments.

Police are less likely to “make split-second decisions to save lives” if they fear false accusations “of being racist,” Ken Blackwell said.

Monday on Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) sounded off on the push from the far left to defund the police.

Representative Cori Bush (D-MO) said Friday on ABC’s “The View” that she was pushing to a call to “defund our police departments.”

Atlanta and other Democrat-run large cities are seeing an increase in violent crime due to Democrats’ undermining of law enforcement, Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA) said on Thursday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with special guest host Jerome Hudson, author of 50 Things They Don’t Want You to Know.

“The American establishment did not want another summer of Black rebellion,” said a BLM UK spokesman of Derek Chauvin’s conviction.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is considering a new policy requiring police to obtain permission from supervisors to begin foot chases.

Most Americans are concerned anti-police rhetoric, routinely touted by Democrats and radical leftists, will lead to a shortage of police officers and ultimately endanger public safety, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Wednesday found.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) doubled down on Tuesday following the guilty verdict against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, concluding that the results are “not a substitute for policy change” in the United States.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), who last week called for the end of policing and incarceration, said Tuesday’s guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial should mark the beginning of a “more fair, just, and equitable society” and vowed to “make all of this a reality” moving forward.

Black Lives Matter UK said they will continue to fight “white supremacy” and to “defund the police” following the George Floyd trial.

“It’s not justice,” said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of the Derek Chauvin trial, saying “systemic institutional racism” continues.

Left-wing documentary  filmmaker Michael Moore celebrated the jury’s guilty verdict of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, calling for an end of “white supremacy and white privilege” and demanding the U.S. to “end policing as we know it.”

Seventh Generation, a company specializing in household cleaning products, publicized its commitment to supporting efforts to defund the police, citing “deep racial inequity in our society” and the “continued killing of Black and Brown people at the hands of the police.”

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti proposed a new program Monday to use therapy rather than policing to respond to some nonviolent emergencies, outlining the idea in his “State of the City” speech.

Catholic League president Bill Donohue slammed Rep. Maxine Waters Monday for her attempts “to racially divide America” by waging a war on police.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) on Monday addressed her call to outlaw the policing of neighborhoods and incarceration, claiming without evidence that law enforcement organizations are built on “structural racism.”

WINTER HAVEN, Florida– Corporate media is one of the “most divisive forces” in the country, and Democrat politicians such as Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) are contributing to the civil unrest across the country, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview immediately following his signing of the state’s anti-riot bill on Monday.

Defunding law enforcement is effectively “off the table” in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) told Breitbart News on Monday, shortly after signing the state’s anti-riot legislation into law.

Representative Karen Bass (D-CA) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Republicans were working in “good faith” on police reform legislation.

Tom Cotton said Democrats’ push for court packing would turn the Supreme Court into a “super legislature” resembling the “House of Lords.”

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) distanced himself from members of the radical left Wednesday, stressing he does not agree with those who say “we should disrespect police.”

Left-wing comedian and producer Chelsea Handler asked on Wednesday if police officers in America are being given “some extra incentive for every person of color they kill or permanently paralyze?” 

Appearing Thursday on Conversations with Bill Kristol, veteran Democrat strategist James Carville expressed concern about the “Defund the Police” movement’s impact on the Democrat Party, calling it a “terrible drag.”