‘How Is That Even Tolerated?’: Harris Faulkner Unloads On BLM, Left-Wing Race Rhetoric Following Penny Acquittal

Fox News host Harris Faulkner called out Black Lives Matter (BLM) and left-wing rhetoric that claims America “hates black people” on Monday, after Daniel Penny was found not guilty.

A Manhattan jury acquitted Penny, a 26-year-old former Marine, of criminally negligent homicide in connection with the death of 30-year-old homeless man Jordan Neely. On “The Faulkner Focus,” the host began by noting that BLM leaders were outside the courthouse following the verdict, advocating for “black vigilantes” to avenge Neely’s death.

“We don’t know what the road home would have been like right after this, but I’m sure they get some protection for some period of time during the trial. But you go back to your life and you’re part of that community that potentially is going to jump on the subway in the next few days and how can you – just think about that. There are threats outside to take people out because this hinged on race suddenly, like suddenly this hinged on race. Black Lives Matter group getting together and saying, ‘If you do this you’ — what did the woman say?” Faulkner asked. “She said, ‘America hates black people.’ I mean that was so far afield from what we’re watching here I can’t even imagine how we got there.”

“Paul Mauro, attorney, former NYPD inspector and Fox News contributor . Paul, it’s really important that we get an idea of what the NYPD is facing at this hour because these threats were real. They were a news conference, they were loud, they were on display for the whole nation to see and there was a threat of burning buildings and burning cars because black people aren’t loved in this country,” Faulkner said.

Mauro went on to describe how the city has reverted to a more “racialized” culture, calling out Democratic District Attorney Alvin Bragg for “bringing” them “back 30 years.” Faulkner then criticized Bragg and questioned why he wasn’t warning those threatening to violently protest.