The Democrats' embrace of Black Lives Matter is "insane," a former New York City Police detective told Newsmax TV Friday.
During an appearance on "The Steve Malzberg Show," Harry Houck said there has to be law and order.
"You've got the liberal Democrats out there embracing the Black Lives Matter group. It's totally insane to me," Houck said. "You got to look at this and say to yourself, do they really want law and order in their cities?'
"You just look at what they do and as soon as they get elected, they turn their backs on minorities and the same thing goes on in the inner cities. What's it going to take? I think it's going to take someone like Donald Trump to get in there and tell those people, 'listen, I care about you. We want you to be able to go outside with your children, take them to the park hand in hand and let them play and not have to worry about two thugs shooting out and killing your child.'"
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Houck also weighed in on the Freddie Gray case in Baltimore, in which all remaining charges were dropped against the six police officers charged in Gray's 2015 death.
"There was no evidence at all," he said. "This was a malicious prosecution and I'm actually calling for a special prosecutor to take a look at her and charger her with official misconduct."
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