{"id":1365242,"date":"2022-03-08T15:21:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T20:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1365242"},"modified":"2022-03-08T15:21:07","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T20:21:07","slug":"rep-cori-bush-claims-colleagues-spew-lies-asserts-that-police-are-the-real-killers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-cori-bush-claims-colleagues-spew-lies-asserts-that-police-are-the-real-killers\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Cori Bush Claims Colleagues \u2018Spew Lies,\u2019 Asserts That Police Are The Real Killers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frep-cori-bush-claims-colleagues-spew-lies-asserts-that-police-are-the-real-killers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1365242&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Democratic Missouri Rep. Cori Bush claimed during a Tuesday hearing that law enforcement officials frequently kill Americans, and that opponents of defunding police \u201cspew lies\u201d about her position.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat too many of my colleagues do not want us to talk about what, what they don\u2019t want us talking about, is that as they trip over each other, rushing to spew lies and right-wing talking points about police funding, they are saying nothing about the rise of violence by the police,\u201d Bush said. \u201cEven after millions of people marched in our streets demanding an end to police brutality, there were only fifteen, one-five, fifteen days in 2021 in which police officers didn\u2019t kill someone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police killed 1,055 Americans in 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/investigations\/police-shootings-database\/\">according<\/a> to a database compiled by The Washington Post. However, despite the claims of activists, the vast majority of suspects were armed, primarily with guns. Thirty-four individuals killed by police were unarmed, according to the database.<\/p>\n<p>Bush, who has marched in Black Lives Matter protests since 2014, frequently <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/05\/cori-bush-defund-the-police-racist-narrative-private-security\/\">calls<\/a> for cities and states to defund police, even as fellow Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/12\/02\/squad-blasts-obama-against-defund-police-slogan-ilhan-omar-rashida-tlaib-ayanna-pressley\/\">criticize<\/a> her for <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/09\/cori-bush-defund-police-democrats-crime-spike\/\">imperiling<\/a> their congressional majorities. She criticized President Joe Biden\u2019s State of the Union call to \u201cfund the police,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CoriBush\/status\/1498866983835783171\">ripping<\/a> Biden for not \u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">mention[ing] saving Black lives once<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bush has also <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/16\/cori-bush-wants-defund-police-spent-70000-private-security\/\">spent<\/a> thousands of dollars on private security, despite her opposition to increased police activity. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/13\/two-sheriff-deputies-fired-working-private-security-cori-bush-missouri-st-louis\/\"><strong>(RELATED: Two Police Officers Fired After Working Private Security For Rep. Cori Bush)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year we started a 911 diversion program that has diverted mental health, domestic violence, drug overdose, and trespassing calls to licensed and trained practitioners. Before it started, there were few options for people in crisis: a trip to the emergency room, spending a night in jail, or receiving no help at all,\u201d she continued. \u201cIn the almost one year since implementation, our 911 diversion program answered nearly seven hundred calls, with seventy-five percent not resulting in a response by law enforcement. The program saved two thousand hours of police and EMS time. At the same time, despite no increases in the local police budget, homicide and gun assaults also fell down by more than 25 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>St. Louis set a record for total murders, as well as murder rate, in 2020. The city <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/04\/st-louis-missouri-murder-rate-breaks-record-2020\/\">saw<\/a> 263 murders overall, at a rate of 87 per 100,000 residents. Both numbers dropped in 2021, to 196 total <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/online\/homicides-in-st-louis-1970-2021\/table_5e4f1d5c-0808-57be-b4cf-1ad8fa7acc62.html\">murders<\/a> at a rate of 65 per 100,000 residents. Those numbers were still the third-highest overall for the city since 1995, according to a compilation from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen some of my colleagues try to tell you that transforming public safety, that that will mean when you call 911 no first responder will answer, that is a lie. When there\u2019s an emergency and you need help, no one will show up. That\u2019s what they tell you, but that is a lie,\u201d Bush added.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly one-third of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/crime-and-courts\/almost-one-third-of-all-911-calls-in-st-louis-last-year-were-delayed-new\/article_1f976b71-d8a7-59b6-b811-f5998f209a47.html\">callers<\/a> to the St. Louis police department\u2019s 9-1-1 dispatch line were put on hold in 2020, and delays continued into 2021 and 2022. Mayor Tishaura Jones <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksdk.com\/article\/news\/local\/st-louis-leaders-unveil-speed-up-911-response-times\/63-e2c1024d-c6d8-4338-aed7-9c27e5fcd2f2\">announced<\/a> in August 2021 that police, fire, and EMS dispatchers would all operate out of the same call center in an effort to lower response times, although the city <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksdk.com\/article\/news\/crime\/st-louis-misses-deadline-consolidate-911-dispatchers\/63-ba18085f-cda6-4684-ace4-99401a3dad22\">missed<\/a> its self-imposed deadline to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Missouri Rep. Cori Bush claimed during a Tuesday hearing that law enforcement officials frequently kill Americans, and that opponents of defunding police \u201cspew lies\u201d about her position.\u201cWhat too many<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1365242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1365242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1365242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1365242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1365242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}