L.A. County Sheriff Responds Accordingly to AOC’s Bizarro ‘Smash and Grab’ Denials – Opinion

When discussions of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) come up in conservative circles, not less than one if not two acquainted themes invariably get talked about.

The primary one goes one thing like “AOC is dumber than a field of rocks/doesn’t know what the hell she’s doing.” The opposite one goes one thing like “though her concepts are insane, AOC is smarter than we predict and is aware of precisely what she’s saying/doing.”

Whereas I lean in the direction of the latter sentiment, one factor that’s for positive is what she stated a number of days in the past in casting doubt on the wave of “smash and seize” looting situations plaguing sure components of the nation – with California on the receiving finish of the brunt of them – had been weapons-grade silly.

“Lots of these allegations of organized retail theft should not really panning out,” Ocasio-Cortez advised The Washington Occasions.

“I consider it’s a Walgreens in California [that] cited it, however the information didn’t again it up,” she added.

As we documented extensively right here, Walgreens, retail business leaders and Republican lawmakers pushed again on AOC’s claims, with Walgreens, particularly, noting that “organized retail crime is without doubt one of the prime challenges” they’re coping with. Additionally they acknowledged that the issue has “advanced past shoplifting and petty theft to the sale of stolen and counterfeit items on-line.”

With all that in thoughts, we flip to what L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva needed to say in response to AOC’s suggestion that the difficulty was being overblown.

Villanueva, a Democrat who’s doesn’t mince phrases and who continuously calls out the ridiculousness that’s continuously on show in his personal occasion – particularly on the problems of funding and preventing crime, had the suitable description of her tactic:

“Within the phrases of John Adams, ‘Info are cussed issues; and no matter could also be our needs, our inclinations, or the dictates of our ardour, they can’t alter the state of info and proof,’” Villanueva started. “Irrespective of how badly sure politicians wish to carry out the Jedi thoughts trick to additional their political narrative, the info and proof can’t be altered.”

Can’t actually argue a lot with that, though I feel it’s protected to say that AOC just isn’t the kind of individual the Jedi would wish to carry into The Pressure’s fold. As a result of she’d flip into an Anakin Skywalker actual fast, in case you catch my that means.

Happily, Villanueva isn’t the one distinguished left coast Democrat who hasn’t misplaced his marbles, although he’s considered one of valuable few.

Final week, Oakland’s Democrat Mayor Libby Schaff made her most aggressive push up to now in demanding the town council rerverse course on their June vote to partially defund the police.

After Schaff, who was being interviewed by CNN, expressed horror over the homicide of personal safety guard Kevin Nishita as he protected a information crew that was submitting a report on a latest smash and seize theft, she started speaking about how the town desperately wanted extra cops. She claimed that the town “appreciated” them but in addition urged that “the defund rhetoric is difficult our skill to draw and retain recruits. And we all know that that’s not distinctive to Oakland.”

She additionally hinted that controversial bail reform measures supported by Democrats, which some have blamed partly for the horrific Waukesha, Wisconsin automotive plowing bloodbath that killed six, had been among the many issues that needs to be reconsidered in an effort to fight what she known as a “spike in violence.”

San Francisco’s Democrat Mayor London Breed, then again, has a unique sort of “resolution” to the looting sprees, which as my Opinion Kira Davis reported revolves round “proscribing parking and entry to retail areas” and canceling holidays for cops.

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