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the headline here in new york this evening, a bold escape attempt from rikers island.rities say an inmate scaled a wall at the jail, jumping into the east river, trying to swim away. two corrections officers jumped in after him, pulled him out. he's back behind bars tonight. >>> we do have a passing to note this evening, the last surviving sibling of president john f. kennedy. jean kennedy smith has died. the eighth of nine children. she was largely out of the spotlight until 1993, when she was appointed ambassador to ireland by president clinton, playing a pivotal role in the northern ireland peace process. jean kennedy smith was 92. >>> when we come back here tonight, we remember the beloved singer who helped families all over the world, give them hope that their loved ones would come home from war. thpelehould or kentucky. or illinois. where you'll find our workers and dealers and engineers and technicians. building for america. we're proud to employ more hourly workers than any other automaker in this country. because we build for this country. hey you, yeah you.mo

about an attempted escape at new york's rikers island. authorities say the inmate was in the recreational area when he climbed a fence, dove into the river trying to make a swim for it heading towards laguardia airport. two correctional officers nearby saw the attempted escape and dove in after him. >> our officers, you know, were able to prevent this inmate from escaping, so we are a very significant part of public safety. >> reporter: the inmate caught and brought back into custody and those two corrections officers seen here drying up are now being hailed as heroes. >> our officers are still, you know, subjected to assault. they're still subjected to having urine and feces thrown on them, but today we were able to do something to protect the public from this guy going back on the street. >> reporter: the corrections officers weren't seriously injured but did receive treatment for minor injuries to their legs. kenneth and andrea. >> that is some cold water. all right, alex, thank you. >>> coming up, a problem with pocket change. why ame

since his release a few months ago from rikers island he's been arrested for six new crimes includingorcible touching, rubbing a makeup store and robbing a person at knife point. after each new arrest he was given a court date and released. speaking of repeat offenders, 31-year-old rashida rivage was walking in manhattan when a 92 year old woman walks past him. he pops her in the face and hits her head on a fire hydrant. he kept walking but was later arrested for the 104th time including sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl, which was supposed to disqualify him for early release and yet, here he is. the woman was recovering physically but mentally she says she will never walk alone in manhattan there's 38 murders which is twice as many as the last time period. overall, mergers and 2020 of 25% over the last year. one nypd official substitute trend is the worst in seven years. >> tucker: trace gallagher, thanks so much for that. you can't protect old ladies as they walk alone, you are feeling. carol, thanks so much for coming on. there's so much lying, give us if you would an accurate sn

now this, at least 250 convicted, accused criminals freed from new york's rikers island prison sincemore than once for a grand total of 450 rearrests. welcome independent women's forum senior policy analyst kelsey bollar for her reaction. kelsey, your take on this story? >> first liberal politicians want to release a bunch of criminals into our cities and now they want to defund the police so there are no forms of law enforcement to respond to them. this is really a handful of stunning policies we've seen, these far left politicians respond to lately. i think it takes away from bipartisan efforts that we've seen the trump administration come out and support, advocate for criminal justice reform. also for police reform but unfortunately when these policies get taken so far out of hand, it reduces the open students to have productive conversations about how to enact sensible reforms while also still protecting our communities from violent criminals who still do exist. elizabeth: you know, kelsey the mass release of convicted and accused criminals of new york, it is happening as violent

the man, facing assault charges, climbed to the rikers island roof a few days ago. he jumped into the east river trying to swim to laguardia airport before being caught. >>> an update on the deaths of two siblings in idaho whose remains were found on the property of their mother's new husband. court documents reveal that lori vallow was convinced that her kids had become zombies. relatives say vallow and her husband chad daybell both in jail now were part of a doomsday cult. cell phone pings led police to the children's bodies. vallow's brother's cell phone was traced to the property the days each child went missing. he died of natural causes in december. >>> the university of southern california is remembering former football player max tuerk. >> the 26-year-old he died saturday while on a hiking trip with his family in his native california. no details about his death were provided. tuerk played in the nfl with arizona in 2017. >>> comedian d.l. hughley is recovering this morning after a scare during a show. the 57-year-old collapsed friday on stage in nashville.

me from my but i ran the new york city police department at 55000 strong and before that i ran rikers island000 staff in about a hundred 33000 inmates admissions. i never had a problem with the black community. i never have these types of problems. did we have individual events, yes we do, but here's what i can say, at the conclusion of my time in office in rudy giuliani's time in office, violent crime in new york city dropped 63%. homicide drop 70. in the black communities in new york city, homicide drop close to 80 - 85% in some of those immunities. why? because we were going where the crime was an today, that's regarding his question or his statement, but steve, i think you are touching on something that nobody's talking about, and it forgot to talk about police reform, let's talk about some things that nobody's talking about, like the communities that you mentioned, they're all run by democrats. new york city has the highest crime rate in the country's history. it was the murder capital of the world. it wasn't until 2002 that we dropped violent crime and we dropped the murder, never done

he has run rikers island. he is talking about, the bail reform movement, the idea of turning people back on the loose on the street especially in the middle of mob violence is utterly insane. another great new york policy. they keep coming up with these. they are utterly destructive of new york. it is very unfortunate. but again you got a president in president trump who says look, if governors and locals like mayor de blasio won't provide enough police, won't provide enough aggressive protection of americans on the street, he will do the job and this is first a local and state responsibility but we have a president who is ready to push back in there and to keep americans safe. department of homeland security, the largest law enforcement organization in the country, we've been doing that with hundreds of officers being surged in washington. you've seen officers go up and violence go down. there is a direct correlation. people like cuomo and de blasio who don't want to learn that lesson, their citizens paid the

down. 1/5 of people rearrested in new york city, they were released and rearrested, released from rikers island you're seeing a massive amount of shootings wee haven't seen. many say its back to the '70s here in new york city. >> yes. elizabeth: your final word? democrat senator joe manchin says it is crazy to defund the police. it is the craziest thing he ever heard. democrats say you can't have that with what is going on in the streets. your final word on this? >> government's first role is to protect the people. giuliani cleaned up new york with the broken windows policy putting petty criminals behind bars. people knew they would get punished for crime. out here in california they're releasing prisoners from jail. they're closing prisons. we are having a crime wave. and it is going to get worse in california. newsom will have to take responsibility for this. and it is really going to be troubling for the people of this state. i really am fearful of the future in terms of security here. elizabeth: okay. john cox, great to have you on again. come back soon. >> great. i will. thanks, liz. eliza

release from rikers island due to crime.s that we have not seen. many people say it's back to the 70s here in new york city. your final word. by the way, democratic senator said it is "crazy to defund the police." the craziest thing he has ever heard. even democrats say you cannot have that with what's going on in the f streets. your final word on that. >> well, governments first role is to protect the people. giuliani cleaned up new york by putting petty criminals behind bars. people knew they would get punished for crime. out here in california they are releasing prisoners from jail. they are closing prisons. we are having a crime wave and it will get worse in california. newsom will have to take responsibility for this. it will really be troubling for the people of this state. i am fearful of the future in terms of security here. >> okay. wait to have you on again. come back soon. >> great. i will. thanks, liz. liz: okay. good. a growing problem for gretchen witmer. michigan state senator peter libido said governor witmer

we had 30,000 in rikers island on labor day. we had 3200 people.ropped likes hand grenade last january. the streets are on fire and what does the de blasio the cowardly lion propose, let's reduce them. i got an idea? let's defund the politicians. that is where we start with this is absolute madness, honestly it is dangerous. it is extremely, extremely dangerous. connell: right. they would bring up certainly safety concerns. is there any room for nuance in all of this? because i think the word defunding is so loaded, sounds like you, maybe some people do seeing talked about in minneapolis want to get rid of police departments but what about the idea i heard spoken about, maybe nothing to this either, the idea that police forces are stretched a little too thin. they're dealing with everything from cabinetry to murder investigation. we should move money around and have other agencies trained to deal with certain circumstances? is there any nuance there that you think is even worth looking into or? >> there may be. i'm not certain if there is in new yo

of the 2500 inmates released from rikers island, 250 of them have re-offended.ose 250 have been arrested 450 times. 27-year-old jonathan martinez, who was convicted in 2014 of strangling his girlfriend. since his release a few months ago he's been arrested for six new crimes, including forcible touching, robbing a makeup store and robbing a person at knife point. after each newro arrest, he was given a court date and released and speaking of repeat offenders, 31-year-old was walking in manhattan when a 92-year-old woman walks past him. he pops a her in the face, she falls to the ground, hitting her head on a fire hydrant. he kept watching, but was later arrested fordr the 104th time, including abusing a 13-year-old girl and ten other offenses, which is supposed to disqualify him for early release, and yet here he is. the 92-year-old woman is recovering physically, but a mentally says she will never again walk alone in manhattan. finally, over the past 28 days in new york, serafin 38 murders, that's twice as many as the same time period last year. overall the new

i was allowed to get help, get off drugs and alcohol and today, i'll go to a place like rikers islandith a a meeting, and that sort of thing, and they're pretty much guilty of the same things that i've done, but you know, when the meeting ends, i can leave and it's pretty much skin color that determines that so clearly we're in a crazy broken system and i just feel like this society has no right to call itself civilized until all of its citizens are treated with equality. you know >> jimmy: yeah >> i mean, that's the bottom line >> jimmy: i agree. >> so i'm just working on listening and educating myself as much as possible. >> jimmy: me too >> yes >> jimmy: i didn't get a chance to talk to you, but since we've talked on the show, you have a a little baby in your life >> yes, yes. my wife and i have a a 9-month-old little girl named lena thank you. >> jimmy: oh, it's the best. >> yeah! it's the greatest. >> jimmy: is she saying words? >> she did just say -- you know, we were reading this book and all of a sudden, she started saying the word "da-da." it was incredible. yeah, i know actu

back in the united states, 17 workers at rikers island will face disciplinary action for the death of layleen polanco, a transgender afro-latinx woman who was found dead in her jail cell in june. it was last year. four offfficers were suspended without pay. and inin more e news from new y, thousands took to the ststreets sunday for the second annual queer liberation march. protesters carried signs that lives matterans and defined the police, and they held banners with the names of transgender people who have been killed. the march made its through the streets of lower manhattan to the legendary stonewall inn, gathering near washington square park, where police officers descended on crowds, unleashing pepper spray and arresting at least four people. this weekend marked the 51st anniversary of the stonewall riots led by black and brown trans women, which sparked the modern day lgbtq movement. the queer liberation march emerged last year as an alternative to the corporate-sponsored lgbtq pride parade. that was held virtually this year due to the pandemic. and those are some of the headli

. >>> here in new york, a bold attempt to escape from rikers island jail was quickly foiled.the east river and tried to swim to freedom. that must have been cold. two correction officers dove in after him and pulled him out. the inmate, initially jailed for alleged assault, may now face additional charges. >>> that mountain lion caught on camera prowling around downtown san francisco has been captured. animal control officers say they found the male cub near oracle cub, where the baseball giants play. with help from police, they managed to catch him with a large net without using tranqs. the cat is now under the care of wildlife specialists at the oakland zoo. he's set to be released in the wild somewhere safe. >> poor kitty. he's just lost. >> earlier we showed him in the parking lot of our abc station kgo. hey, abc 7 news, you guys are safe now. the kitty's gone. there might be others, though, the mama might be looking for him. >> watch your back. >>> when we come back, jimmy kimmel's big announcement and big surprise from matt damon. >>> what raven-symone just did that's g

. >>> an inmate at new york city's >>> an inmate at new york city's rikers island jail has been caughtecond escape attempt. yesterday the 37-year-old only made it as far as the roof. a few days ago that same man jumped into the east river. >>> a racist act aimed at the only black full-time driver on nascar's top circuit. nascar says a noose was found in bubba wallace's garage at talladega's super speedway in alabama. nascar called the act heinous and says an investigation is under way. the incident comes two weeks after wallace called on officials to ban the confederate flag from its tracks and properties. he responded to this noose incident on twitter writing, this will not break me, i will not give in, nor will i back down, i will continue to proudly stand for what i believe in. nascar's next race is this afternoon in talladega. >>> a massive dust storm may be headed toward you. >> the plume started in the sahara desert in africa and is traveling across the atlantic. you can barely see the african coastline from orbit. >> look at how hazy it makes everything in st. bart's and the car

the outbreak on inmates and staff at rikers island. i especially to recognize the efforts of the congressional black caucus and his leadership of karen bass in focusing on this issue and holding virtual town halls to discuss it, , what of which included the participation of our speaker nancy pelosi. i've also work with breakfast in the vascular capacity of the subcommittee to write repeatedly to the justice department on several occasions urging aggressive action with respect to prisoners held in the bureau of prisons and detainees held by the marshal service. attorney general and for julie has been slow to act. we have heard some of our witnesses, the been quite perverse. not taking necessary action to an appropriate degree -- granted to the dj under the care act which was enacted in march. the fact staring into this authority has been -- and physical changes resulting heartache to families of prisoners who are vulnerable to covid-19. that's why include additional authority in the heroes act to address the situation of federal prisons

i have rikers island here in my district. the new york city police department has a $6 billion a year budget. that is more than we spend on youth, housing, health care and homelessness combined in new york city. and so the problem is not a lack of resources here. in fact, many folks here in our community say that the problem is the opposite. not enough resources are being put into the very kinds of social programming and investments that prevent crime and social discord in the first place and so what a lot of folks are talking about, when it comes to this movement, is that they're asking for the same budget priorities that many affluent suburbs already have. it may sound strange, but many affluent suburbs have essentially already begun pursuing a defunding of the police in that they fund schools, they fund housing and they fund health care more as their number one priorities. >> why is it necessary to take the money from the police? i understand your argument you're making about expanding social services and investing in soci

over the weekend we learned, that since the covid-19 pandemic started 250 people were let out of rikers islandted for committing more crimes 450 times your reaction to bail reform law that laws criminalize back on streets, because they don't have to have bail and then they are gone. >> look, we better -- did a study when president obama was in office 11 million people a year in our jails waiting trial many of them are not a threat to society, after con providing serve average 23 days, so that is not the a risk to society and we have to be smart about this people not the a risk we should not incarcerate them many simply because they are poor, so i think bail reform is necessary, we just have to make sure that we are looking at each individual case determining whether or not that person is actually, a threat to society before we incarcerate them. >> as if i think new yorkers would say its hasn't worked in new york. >> well you know i am not living in new york so i feel that i -- i do realize how many people are poor, are incarcerated awaiting trial that isn't fair either imagine what happens to

. >> sandra: a new york city jailbreak sparking a manhunt and trying to escape rikers island, climbings along the island's edge and swift currents keeping him from swimming away. two corrections officers tracking him down with their canine partners sending him ba back. when backpackers are at it again this time emailing people about black lives matter explaining the movement based by many americans following the death of george floyd. adam, good morning. >> good morning, thank you for having me. >> ed: what you seeing out there that people should be on the lookout for? >> we have seen a lot of different scams especially during the covid period which we are still living through right now as well as anything involving an issue of national or international import, and the black lives matter movement has become an international incident, an international issue, and a lot of people are interested in it and a lot of people are clicking on links, opening thing is i would relate it. >> ed: an expert in the field saying the fishing actors often capitalize on current events as you suggest, using

county jail, and rikers island prison. i see a problem with that. where have social services gone? those issues are all dumped on the doorstep of law enforcement. should we fund social services more? absolutely. i will be the first want to say that we should. should it be at the costs of defunding law enforcement? at the same time we are having these conversations, we are being told that officers need more de-escalation and use of force training, leadership training, more training in dealing with mental health, etc. . these trainings are not free, they caused money. you want a professional law enforcement agency? you have to invest in the training of those officers. host: what is the role of community? to what level our relationships being built? it varies across the country, we are unique country. we have 18,000 law enforcement agencies across the united states and every one of those has done different things to develop relationships with their community. what i would tell anybody in any community, if you feel that your law enforcement agency isn't invested in your community, step

at the same time they're emptying rikers island. they want to disband it all together.riminal justice reformers, in our state legislature, used the pandemic as well as bill de blasio to empty out the jails even more. and so, you have whim sexually assaulted by people who have been let out of jail because of the pandemic. there was no plan for what to do with these people where they were going to live. it is just this free-for-all. almost like, you know, the joker movie where you let the inmates out of the asylum and poor people on the streets of new york just don't know what's hit them. that poor 92-year-old woman, walking down the street, minding her own business, pushing her little shopping trolley and this thug walks past her and gratuitously shoved her into the ground. she could have been killed. she is a frail old woman. she is now terrified, once proudly able to get up and around and live a normal life. now she is terrified to leave the front door by herself. jedediah: yeah. miranda, horrific case that was. unfortunately there are probably others like it. also imp