President Donald Trump has been reviewing proposals on police reform, and after Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and senior advisor Jared Kushner had a "very positive meeting" with Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., the administration believes it will have "proactive" plans on the issue, either through legislation or with an executive order, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Wednesday.
Earlier this week, a law enforcement roundtable at the White House proved productive, McEnany told Fox News' "Fox and Friends," adding that she believes "the police want to see some sort of reform too."
"They recognize the deep injustice that was done to George Floyd, and we all want to move together as one united country while keeping in mind the great work our law enforcement officers do," said McEnany. "They are after all the thin blue line that divides us from chaos and order and keeps us on the side of order."
Meanwhile, she blasted calls to defund police departments, commenting that it's "ludicrous to take police out of society."
"Let's just look at LA (Los Angeles) for a second," she said. "When the LA mayor said I'm going to remove $150 million from the LAPD, what happened the next week? We saw homicides go up in LA by 250% and shootings go up by 56%. It is anarchy, it is chaos when we don't recognize that police serve a valuable function in this society and most police officers, the vast majority, are good domestic heroes out there protecting us each and every day."
McEnany also downplayed reports in Wednesday's Washington Post claiming that the Republican Party has decided to move its convention to Jacksonville, Florida, after disagreeing with North Carolina's pandemic safeguards.
"There have been a number of cities under consideration," she said. "The president loves the state of North Carolina. He really wanted to have it there but unfortunately, you have a governor there whose not willing to say yes, so you can move forward."
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