On Monday’s edition of CNN This Morning, senior national correspondent Kyung Lah reported on the out-of-control crime in Oakland, California, with murders in broad day light and undeterred gang groups targeting everyone. The network gawked as residents fled the city and were being told by police to carry airhorns for protection. The biggest concern for one CNN talking head was that runaway crime in liberal cities was a boon to Republican arguments about law and order.
“While homicides are down, robberies, burglaries and rape are all up by double-digit percentages. Everyone we talked to says it doesn't matter your race, your income, everyone seems to be a target,” Lah noted after (figuratively) parachuting into the city to gawk at the situation.
Lah interviewed one resident who was fleeing the city, fearing for the life of her son. On the flip side, there was one resident who chose to stay and was following the police department’s ridiculous recommendation to arm herself with an airhorn. Surprisingly, airhorns didn’t stop her neighbor from being shot and killed in broad day light.
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