Between Friday and Saturday, correspondent Brynn Gingras appeared on several CNN shows with a report relating that Philadelphia was on the verge of breaking its all-time record number of homicides.
Instead of putting blame squarely on the left's hostility to police officers from the past several years -- led by the liberal media -- Gingras blamed factors like the pandemic and the availability of guns.
On Friday, Gingras appeared on CNN Newsroom in the morning and again in the afternoon. After beginning by recalling the city's recent increase in homicides that reached 500 last week, Gingras moved to blame several factors. Appearing live at 1:52 p.m. Eastern, she declared:
And there's a lot of issues here contributing to this. And like I said, there's no easy one solution as well. We're, of course, coming out of the pandemic -- the economy is contributing to this -- but the officials say the most significant problem that they're facing is the amount of guns that are on the street -- the availability of these guns. And, honestly, Jessica, if you talk to police departments all across this country, at least in major cities -- New York, like here, Los Angeles, Chicago -- they will tell you there are just too many guns on the streets.
She then plugged the Democratic push for more gun control as she added:
When you go to Philadelphia, they're pleading to the state legislature to help with that. They say it's too easy for those straw purchasers -- for people to get their hands on numerous guns and sell them again on the streets. And they're hoping if they do have even more help, they'll be able to help reduce all these horrific homicides that are happening, again, in Philadelphia. But we're seeing this across the country.
But the increase in homicides in Philadelphia mirrors the national increase in homicides that began occurring after the left's reaction to the August 2014 police-involved death of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. In 2021, there was an even bigger spike in murders after the renewed focus on police involved violence.
On New Day Saturday, Gingras appeared again and similarly observed:
This is a major issue that not only Philadelphia is dealing with, but of course we have seen this all across the country in major cities -- New York being one of them -- where the pandemic -- where the protests, the aftermath of all the protests with racial injustice and police brutality -- with the economy -- some of these factors are contributing to this. .. And all those leaders you just saw there -- they are also pleading with the state legislature in Pennsylvania to have stricter gun laws, essentially saying that people can just purchase as many guns as they want through straw purchases and then resell them on the streets, and that's also contributing to the gun violence that we're seeing.
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Transcripts follow:
CNN Newsroom with Ana Cabrera
November 26, 2021
1:51 p.m. Eastern
JESSICA DEAN:, FILL-IN HOST: The city of Philadelphia marking a grim milestone -- 500 homicides since the beginning of the year. That ties a record set in 1990. Authorities say the latest homicide Wednesday was believed to be domestic violence, but behind every number is a person and a life cut short. CNN's Brynn Gingras is following the story for us. Brynn, what more are we hearing from city officials about the efforts to stop the violence?
BRYNN GINGRAS: Yeah, Jessica, they're literally throwing millions of dollars into programs in the city of Philadelphia to help with crime production, crime prevention, hoping that it'll just help even a little bit, but, of course, this isn't a simple issue. I want to throw this statistic at you, though, for Philadelphia and that milestone that they hit. Well, they're averaging one homicide every 16 hours. City council members are literally saying, "Stop killing each other." I want you to hear now from the mayor.
MAYOR JIM KENNEY (D-PHILADELPHIA): At 299, 261, nobody ever asked me a question about homicides. I've been mayor for six years, and I don't remember getting all this attention to less than 300. So, I mean, one is too many -- one homicide is too many.
GINGRAS: And there's a lot of issues here contributing to this. And like I said, there's no easy one solution as well. We're, of course, coming out of the pandemic -- the economy is contributing to this -- but the officials say the most significant problem that they're facing is the amount of guns that are on the street -- the availability of these guns. And, honestly, Jessica, if you talk to police departments all across this country, at least in major cities -- New York, like here, Los Angeles, Chicago -- they will tell you there are just too many guns on the streets.
When you go to Philadelphia, they're pleading to the state legislature to help with that. They say it's too easy for those straw purchasers -- for people to get their hands on numerous guns and sell them again on the streets. And they're hoping if they do have even more help, they'll be able to help reduce all these horrific homicides that are happening, again, in Philadelphia. But we're seeing this across the country.
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CNN's New Day Saturday
November 27, 2021
6:32 a.m.
GINGRAS: This is a major issue that not only Philadelphia is dealing with, but of course we have seen this all across the country in major cities -- New York being one of them -- where the pandemic -- where the protests, the aftermath of all the protests with racial injustice and police brutality -- with the economy -- some of these factors are contributing to this. .. And all those leaders you just saw there -- they are also pleading with the state legislature in Pennsylvania to have stricter gun laws, essentially saying that people can just purchase as many guns as they want through straw purchases and then resell them on the streets, and that's also contributing to the gun violence that we're seeing.
They're also just throwing a lot of money at it -- millions of dollars -- to try to curb this violence in programs for people living in that city. And they're hoping just really the grim number of 500 people killed is going to be enough to try to get people to realize that every number is a life, and that hopefully the violence will stop.
