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<\/p>\nBRETT: Jerry in Binghamton, New York. Jerry, welcome to the show. What\u2019s on your mind, sir?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, I have a few problems with some of the people being interviewed on radio today saying that policemen should start shooting people in the leg or in the arm and just wounding them instead of, quote, “killing them.” Policemen, first of all, are not trained — and I speak because I\u2019m a retired policeman.<\/p>\n
BRETT: Thank you for your service.<\/p>\n
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‘CALLER: I speak with some authority. Policemen are not trained to wound. We\u2019re trained to eliminate a threat. We\u2019re not trained to wound. We\u2019re not trained to kill. We\u2019re trained to eliminate a threat. Point in fact is that if a person with a knife is standing 15 or more feet away from a policeman with his gun drawn aimed at the person, that policeman stands a better chance of being killed by that man charging him. Even though he shoots him, he\u2019s still gonna get to him, and if he wants to, kill the policeman.<\/p>\n
BRETT: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Policemen are not trained marksmen. It\u2019s very hard to hit an object.<\/p>\n
BRETT: Sure.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Most gunfights, actually, occur within three to four feet with police involved. And you never know how you\u2019re gonna react, first of all. But even in that distance, police and other people miss all the time!<\/p>\n
BRETT: Yes.<\/p>\n
CALLER: More shots are missed at that distance than made. It\u2019s ludicrous to say that a policeman should be shooting people to wound them. It\u2019s ridiculous.<\/p>\n
BRETT: Uh-oh. Look, it\u2019s a great point you raise, and thank you so much for your service and helping to keep your community safe there as a law enforcement officer. You know better than anybody — and I\u2019d be willing to bet the vast majority of these people opining on how the police should do their jobs, have never even gone on a ride-along with law enforcement. You can do it as a citizen.<\/p>\n
I just wonder how many of them would be willing to do it.<\/p>\n
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BRETT: The debate about policing in the United States of America continues to rage on, and people from all different sides are coming at this challenge with a whole variety of different solutions. But if we take the 50,000-foot view for a quick second at the landscape across this country, one thing is pretty clear. There is a population of people…<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t believe it\u2019s as large as it\u2019s made out to be, but there\u2019s a population of people who just don\u2019t like law enforcement. They\u2019re just in opposition to what it is that law enforcement officers do — and law enforcement doesn\u2019t necessarily just mean the local cop on the beat or the state trooper. Let\u2019s be honest here. There has been a war on law enforcement for a very long time, waged in a number of different ways.<\/p>\n
During the border crisis that took place in 2018, you had the absolute vilification of men and women serving there in the Border Patrol, Customs and Border Patrol, ICE, what have you. These are people who are committed to stopping human trafficking, drug smuggling, gun smuggling, art theft, whatever it is that they are responsible for, and they were reviled. They were called Nazis.<\/p>\n
I remember watching Tom Homan, the acting chief, sit there and have to answer those questions from the representatives there in the committee hearings. And he would talk about finding, you know, dozens of people dead in the back of it a tractor-trailer truck who are being smuggled into the United States and how it broke his heart to see that.<\/p>\n
Law enforcement officers do a job nobody would ever want to do, by and large. If I didn\u2019t tell you it was being a police officer, but instead just described to you the duties and responsibilities and the current station in life in our social culture, nobody would that job. They wouldn\u2019t take that job for 10 times the money that the police officers, the men and women are taking right now.<\/p>\n
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It is about public service, and in a country that\u2019s got well north of a million law enforcement professionals — especially when you work in the retired men and women — you realize very quickly, very quickly that this is a thankless job that you\u2019re always gonna be said is being done wrong, wrongly. And that\u2019s unfortunate. That\u2019s unfortunate because we have the case of Ma\u2019Khia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio. There\u2019s a case moving now out of Elizabeth City, North Carolina, Pasquotank County.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s gonna be coming come out and it will be a big story in the coming hours and days of an officer-involved shooting. But one person that I would always have thought like really kind of understood this because she was a chief of police in Orlando, Florida, and that would be Florida congresswoman Val Demings.<\/p>\n
She is a Democrat she was one of the impeachment managers I think in the first impeachment of Donald Trump, she was an impeachment manager, she was the chief of police in Orlando, Florida, she was on CBS\u2019 Face the Nation. She said this about the police shooting of Ma\u2019Khia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio.<\/p>\n
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DEMINGS: The limited information that I know in viewing the video, it appears that the officer responded as he was trained to do with the main thought of preventing a tragedy and a loss of life of the person who was about to be assaulted.<\/p>\n
BRETT: So that\u2019s a pretty big explanation, and it\u2019s direct. And it\u2019s coming from somebody who knows about policing, who knows about those responsibilities, to preserve life, to preserve innocent life, to protect and serve the public. In fact, truth be told on my own show, I thought that Val Demings might have actually been an effective choice for vice president for President Biden to pick because she understands law enforcement.<\/p>\n
If you look at the current vice president, Kamala Harris, she was a district attorney and an AG, but doesn\u2019t really show any kind of interest or desire to get into the meat and potatoes of law enforcement itself, which is exhibited by her inability to even get to the border and cites covid as the issue. But Val Demings, I think, with a terrific explanation. And I think none of this is new. None of this is unexpected. This is all absolutely expected — and, in fact, Rush talked about cops being in the crosshairs.<\/a><\/p>\n RUSH: Just a reminder to every police officer in this country, you are being watched, and I\u2019m very serious about this. You cops had better keep a sharp eye, because the powers that be are looking to find another cop they can accuse of racial assassination and railroad indict, and convict.<\/p>\n They failed to get what they wanted in Ferguson. They\u2019re gonna find a way. They didn\u2019t really get what they wanted out of Florida and the “white Hispanic” George Zimmerman and all that. They didn\u2019t get what they wanted in the Duke lacrosse case. They really want a win. And the cops are the focus, the target for that next win.<\/p>\n BRETT: This isn\u2019t the sort of thing that just manifested itself overnight. We\u2019ve been at this now — in this current iteration — really almost a decade, right? You go back to 2014 when Black Lives Matter starts to take shape in the wake of the death of Trayvon Martin, and you see that movement begin to take root and to expand across the country.<\/p>\n And one of the things I think it\u2019s worth tracking back to is, Where does this anti-law enforcement sort of POV…? Where does it come from? I go back to the radical 1960s. Go back to the radical 1960s, you have the anti-war movement. Back then people in the military were the devil, right? Men who were coming back from Vietnam were spit upon.<\/p>\n They were were mistreated in airports, were told not to wear their uniforms out in public, were told not to wear the uniforms when they were come back home from tours of duty in Vietnam, that it was dangerous; it was rough. You move into the 1970s, the early 1970s; that\u2019s the heyday of the Weather Underground, right? And Bill Ayers. And Bill Ayers is out there leading that organization.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/APP-20201-041321-Rush-Police-car.jpg\")
Police officers in this country are in dangerous jobs at great risk right now because they have a target on them. They have a bull\u2019s-eye that is being painted, that\u2019s being drawn by the highest positions of power in this country. It\u2019s a very dangerous circumstance, very dangerous situation taking place here, folks. And the cops right now are in the crosshairs of the most powerful forces in this country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n