Fox News host Harris Faulkner criticized Black Lives Matter (BLM) and left-wing narratives that assert America “hates black people” on Monday, following the acquittal of Daniel Penny. A Manhattan jury found Penny, a 26-year-old former Marine, not guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the case involving the death of Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old homeless man. During her show, “The Faulkner Focus,” Faulkner pointed out that BLM leaders were present outside the courthouse after the verdict, urging “black vigilantes” to seek retribution for Neely’s death.
“We don’t know what the road home would have been like right after this, but I’m sure they get some protection for some period of time during the trial. But you go back to your life and you’re part of that community that potentially is going to jump on the subway in the next few days and how can you – just think about that. There are threats outside to take people out because this hinged on race suddenly, like suddenly this hinged on race. Black Lives Matter group getting together and saying, ‘If you do this you’ — what did the woman say?” Faulkner asked. “She said, ‘America hates black people.’ I mean that was so far afield from what we’re watching here I can’t even imagine how we got there.”
“Paul Mauro, attorney, former NYPD inspector and Fox News contributor [is here]. Paul, it’s really important that we get an idea of what the NYPD is facing at this hour because these threats were real. They were a news conference, they were loud, they were on display for the whole nation to see and there was a threat of burning buildings and burning cars because black people aren’t loved in this country,” Faulkner said. Mauro described how the city had returned to a more “racialized” culture, criticizing Democratic District Attorney Alvin Bragg for “bringing” them “back 30 years.” Faulkner then questioned Bragg’s inaction, asking why he was not warning those who intended to protest violently.
“When you say that you want to burn stuff that affects everybody, and you’re gonna hinge because you think people who have my skin color are so hated in America that you [have to] set New York on fire? That puts everybody in victim mode,” Faulkner continued. “I mean how is that even tolerated? Where is Alvin Bragg? He should come out on the steps of the courthouse right now and say, ‘You will be protected. Justice has been adjudicated in this building so you will not riot tonight. We will come after people who do.’ Like where is his voice?”
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