Journalist Ryan Girdusky told a CNN panel on Tuesday about the Ferguson Effect, which left them shocked and exposed them as uninformed.
Discussing hypothetical riots in America, one CNN anchor cited Donald Trump’s proposal to bring in the National Guard to deal with violent uprisings.
Defending Trump, Girdusky explained that over 15,000 black men were killed as a result of the 2020 BLM riots after the death of George Floyd.
I mentioned the Ferguson and Floyd Effect on CNN… surprisingly, none of the Democrats on the panel had ever heard of it. pic.twitter.com/DckpbqzElS
— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) October 16, 2024
Another CNN panelist chimed in, clearly frustrated at Girdusky’s claim, asking him to explain “how George Floyd’s death” caused a spike in black deaths.
Girdusky stated, “After the Ferguson riot and after the Floyd riot, policemen in fear of their jobs many times and political coverage, pulled back from their jobs resulting in an increased level of homicides across the country.”
Several of the CNN hosts, who were mostly black, began talking over the journalist and asked him where he was getting his claims.
CNN host Abby Phillip said, “Ryan, we gotta stop you there because you’re literally making a connection out of your own conjecture. You cannot just do that!”
He answered, “No! It’s a real thing. Look up the Ferguson Effect, look up the Floyd Effect. It is a real term. I didn’t make this up.”
“You cannot just invent a connection between two things just because you want that connection to be there,” Phillip added.
The panel then broke out into a free-for-all as the angry CNN hosts chastised Girdusky.
Political commentator Bakari Sellers spoke down to the journalist, telling him, “I think there needs to be a level of intellectual honesty… The dishonesty for me is you cannot say that what happened during that time period is to blame for the deaths of other black men due to violence or what have you.”
Ironically, CNN itself actually published an article in 2015 with the headline, “FBI chief tries to deal with the ‘Ferguson effect,’” which focused on “the idea that restraint by cops in the wake of criticism is at least partly to blame for a surge in violent crime in some cities.”
“The Ferguson Effect” even has its own Wikipedia page detailing how the chief of the St. Louis Police Department coined the term in the aftermath of the 2014 Ferguson riots when murder rates spiked in major U.S. cities.
A 2022 study published in the Journal of Public Economics by university economists Cheng Cheng and Wei Long revealed a decline in arrests following the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, resulted in a rise in homicides and aggravated assaults for at least the next two years.
The conversation about crime comes as the media is trying to cover up the Biden-Harris administration’s lies about national crime rates allegedly dropping.
It was revealed this week the feds have been lying about crime statistics, claiming U.S. violent crime rates fell by 2.1% when they actually increased by 4.5% in 2022.
The CNN hosts exposed themselves as uninformed race-baiters during the news segment.
