Political analyst Gianno Caldwell, whose 18-year-old brother was killed in a shooting in Chicago last month, said the July 4 parade mass shooting is the result of “soft-on-crime” policies.
“The ‘defund the police’ mantra has become like a disease that’s spreading from the inner cities to suburbs everywhere,” Caldwell told the New York Post on July 4.
He added, “The idea of defunding the police and reallocating those funds comes with a mentality that criminals are embracing, which is that the police can’t touch me.”
Now criminals “don’t fear” the police because police officers “are handicapped from doing their jobs,” Caldwell said….