Gowdy: Why Would Portland Tolerate Rocks, Bottle Rockets, Lasers Being Used Against Cops?

GOWDY: “You know, Paul, it’s a good thing I am not running in Portland, because that would end tonight. I’m trying to remember that line from ‘Tombstone’: ‘I’m coming and hell is coming with me.’ Why would anyone tolerate rocks, bottle rockets, lasers being used towards cops? I mean, it’s just incomprehensible to me.”
MAURO: “And this is where the Trump Administration is on very firm ground. These are federal officers and federal facilities that are being obstructed from enforcing federal law. Consequently, not only is he fully within his powers to send in other federal officers, that is other three-letter agency agents, FBI, HSI, etc., but even the National Guard, because federal law is being obstructed. And then the other piece to this, Trey, as you and I both know, is that the local police are just MIA on these issues. When you see these riots going on, finally, out in Chicago, you’ve got the state police there, but they have the intel on what’s going on, they know what’s coming at them, many of these groups are quite public. Here in New York, the NYPD is very adept at pinning protesters in so that they get to exercise their First Amendment rights, but that we don’t get a riot as they do so. You don’t see the local police doing that. And you have to imagine that those orders, from the reporting that we hear, are coming from the mayors’ offices. The mayors in these towns, these blue, blue cities, just have their cops standing down. As a result, ICE officers are getting less protection than the average citizen.”