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Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd dunked on a liberal reporter who asked how his department’s new gang task force can do more to “help gang members” rather than arrest them.
“It strikes me that the victim has a mother that cared about him, didn’t want him in that life anymore,” the reporter asked Judd during a press conference last Thursday detailing a gang-related murder case.
“We have this 19-year-old who’s young….how does the gang task force try to get young people, young kids, not to go into this life?”
Judd shut that line of questioning down, calling it a “bunch of hooey.”
“That soft and cuddly feeling, ‘we’re gonna hug a thug and if we give them another popsicle and an icy and a day out at the park they’re gonna be good…’ — Ya’ll need to wake up,” he said.
“These dudes are taking y’all for fools. These are hardcore gangsters, gang bangers. They’ll eat your ice cream on Saturday and shoot up their rivals on Saturday night — and smile at you in the meantime.”
“So at the end of the day, it all starts with parenting at home when they’re young and keeping them away from this lifestyle,” he continued. “But when we’re having these ‘neighborhood events’ for these 15, 16, 17 year old hard core gang bangers…they’re smiling at you in the daytime and going up and dressing like this at night (shows a teen in gang banger attire).”
“This kind of person, I’m not talking about everybody, this kind of person is paying no attention,” he added.
The conference was detailing the arrest of La’Darion Chandler for allegedly shooting 33-year old John McGee, who was shot in the back last December and was expected to recover.
But McGee died in January after refusing medication doctors claimed he needed to recover, according to FOX 13 Tampa Bay.
The reporter’s question is indicative of the Democrat Party’s soft-on-crime policies that have led to huge spikes in violent crime in blue cities.