Donald Trump made an appearance and spoke at slain NYPD officer Jonathan Diller's wake on Thursday to show his support for the grieving family. Diller was fatally shot on Monday evening while carrying out a routine traffic stop in Queens, by a "thug" who had previously been arrested 21 times and remained on the streets.
Jack Posobiec hosted David Zere on Human Events Daily Thursday while he was reporting live from the funeral. Zere described the heartbreaking situation unfolding in New York in light of the shooting, saying that "people feel they can get away with murder, literally, and the rich people step over their bodies on the way to Starbucks."
After Trump's motorcade left the scene, Zere stated that "things have to change in New York City. And they have to toughen up on crime, especially violent crime, which has been so rampant in New York City."
He delivered statistics such as there only being 29,000 police in the NYPD, down from 40,000 under Mayor Rudy Giuliani around 2 decades ago. He also said that transit crimes have been up 53% in the city since 2019.
"It feels to me like there's a war on cops in the city in New York," Posobiec said.
Zere concurred, reiterating that it has been increasingly difficult for New York police to do their jobs since the City Council called for their defunding after George Floyd.
He said that "the cops are retiring before they're even reached near 20 years and where they get fully vested with their pensions, you know, so the situation is pretty dire in New York City."
Zere said that "the people of New York don't feel safe, and the embattled police officers have to deal with the City Council and a mayor who's not tough enough, I think, on the DA Alvin Bragg."
"This," he said, "is a direct result of things like bail reform."
The career criminal who shot Jonathan Diller had been arrested 21 times prior to the incident.
"There's no regard for the law in New York City. People feel they can get away with murder, literally. And the rich people step over their bodies on the way to Starbucks Jack," Zere stated. "You know, they they're just, you know, oblivious to what's going on. Something's got to change."
"Trump, I think, is making a play here in New York to put it front and center," he said.
"And New York City is directly tied to Trump in so many ways," Posobiec pointed out. "This is his city. This is the city where he was born. He's from Queens, Trump is from Queens himself. He was born there, grew up there with his family before obviously moving into Manhattan. This was a city that, by and large, he took with Giuliani through the 80s and then the 90s, brought it from the brink of destruction all the way back to where it was for so many years after Giuliani, but now it's sinking back again. So the fact that he's there today I think is it's even more symbolic because of the situation the city's in and because it's Trump."
Watch the full episode below.
