Michigan Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff told “The Story” Thursday that Detroit is “in trouble” as gun violence continues to escalate at troubling rates in the city.
“I think we are here for hard work,” LeDuff told presenter Martha McCallum. “I think you know it and the country knows it, the police do their job, [but] There is not enough police to do it and some are afraid to do it, but last week they took 106 weapons out of 117 detainees. Guns are everywhere. “
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LeDuff’s comments come a day after President Trump promised to deploy federal troops in several cities in the United States, including Detroit, to combat the increase in crime.
The “surge” of officers in troubled American cities is part of Operation Legend, named for 4-year-old LeGend Taliferro, who was shot dead while sleeping in a Kansas City apartment late last month, and is reportedly as federal police officers. I’ve already descended in Portland, Oregon, and Kansas City, Missouri.
LeDuff said the federal presence in Detroit is a relief to residents who are “scared … angry and want help.”
“Nobody seriously thinks that you should pay the police because, as we have spoken before, we have already done so and look at what is happening,” he said.
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LeDuff urged Michigan Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer to take matters into her own hands and enlist state police on major boulevards and allow police to patrol residential neighborhoods.
“We have more state soldiers than the president is sending federal agents,” he said.
“He’s not even talking about it,” added LeDuff, arguing that Whitmer is too “busy tweeting with the president.”
Fox News’ Andrew O’Reilly contributed to this report.
