Detroit Police Chief Slams Democrat Rashida Tlaib: ‘I’d Love To See Her Resign”

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Detroit police chief slams Rashida Tlaib: ‘I’d love to see her resign’

Detroit Police Chief James Craig also condemned statements by Rep. Maxine Waters

By: Evie Fordham | Fox News April 19, 2021|

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Detroit Police Chief James Craig went after Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., after her latest call for “no more policing” in the wake of 20-year-old Daunte Wright’s death after a police traffic stop in Minnesota

Tlaib has faced a mounting backlash after calling for an end to “policing, incarceration, and militarization” – the latest in a long string of controversial comments from the sophomore congresswoman.

“She’s reckless,” Craig told Fox 2 Detroit on Sunday. “I’d love to see her resign. I’d throw her a goodbye party.”

“Who is she speaking for?” he continued. “When you talk about abolishing police, incarceration, when you talk about safe cities – what do you think the residents in Detroit want? I know. I speak with them.”

Some of Tlaib’s fellow Democrats, including Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., distanced themselves from her “no more policing” tweet last week.
In this image from video, Detroit Police Chief James Craig speaks to reporters during a news conference held at his department’s headquarters in Detroit, Monday July 11, 2016. (AP Photo/Mike Householder)

In this image from video, Detroit Police Chief James Craig speaks to reporters during a news conference held at his department’s headquarters in Detroit, Monday July 11, 2016. (AP Photo/Mike Householder) (The Associated Press)

“It wasn’t an accident. Policing in our country is inherently [and] intentionally racist. Daunte Wright was met with aggression [and] violence. I am done with those who condone government funded murder. No more policing, incarceration, and militarization. It can’t be reformed,” Tlaib wrote on Twitter on April 12.

Craig also condemned Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., for telling protesters in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, to “get more confrontational” if Derek Chauvin isn’t convicted of murdering George Floyd.

“I will not let someone like a Tlaib or a Maxine Waters paint our profession with a broad brush. Are you aware of what the other U.S. rep said as recent as yesterday? You know what she said in response to Brooklyn Center? … Get more confrontational,” Craig said.

“I was the first chief in the nation that came out and denounced the murderous cop who killed George Floyd,” he said. “We suport free speech, we support social justice, but are we encouraging, we make reckless statements like that, to create criminal behavior?”

Craig said that if he made comments like Tlaib’s, he’d have to resign.

“Is she truly representing the people, or is she representing a fringe group?” he said. “She does not speak for Black and Brown people in our city.”

Tlaib’s spokesman Denzel McCampbell called Craig’s comments “disappointing and unproductive” in a statement to Fox News on Monday.

“At a time where report after report cites the city of Detroit’s harmful treatment of Black Lives Matter protesters – and the enormous waste of taxpayer money to lose embarrassingly in court after trying to intimidate them, the city’s use of discriminatory facial recognition technology, and the fact that people still do not feel safe despite spending $300 million per year on police – it’s disappointing and unproductive for Chief Craig to run to the cameras to call for Congresswoman Tlaib’s resignation,” McCampbell said. “One would think Chief Craig has more important things to do.”

Craig has previously criticized Tlaib, whose district includes part of Detroit.

In July 2020, he pushed back against her claims that Detroit police officers abused peaceful protesters.

In an interview on “Fox News @ Night” with host Shannon Bream, Craig explained that there was “something very different” going on when police squad cars were seen on video running over protesters that had surrounded them.

“To suggest that this protest was peaceful all night certainly is totally inaccurate,” he said.

According to Craig, while the “vast majority” of protesters were peaceful, there were 20 to 30 “agitators” in the group, and “that’s when things went bad.”

“I know that the congresswoman is making claims that they were peacefully marching when we intersected and intentionally hit peaceful protesters. [That is] not the case,” he said.

“They [surrounded] the vehicle, they began to pelt the vehicle –­ not just one of our police cruisers but two of them –­ and in one instance the rear window of one of our SUVs was broken out. And, the information I got from the officer in that vehicle was that he thought he was being shot at,” Craig said.

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