A male caller on “The Breakfast Club” on Wednesday accused the popular radio show’s hosts of lacking “common sense” when discussing crime in Washington, D.C.
President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he was declaring a “public safety emergency” and deploying the National Guard to combat violent crime in the nation’s capital. On the “Get It Off Your Chest” segment of the show, the caller praised Trump’s crackdown and suggested the hosts were downplaying juvenile criminal activity by so-called “YN’s.”
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“I’m just trying to basically come to some common sense about this whole DC thing. Across the nation, they need to do the exact same thing that they doing. I’m from Milwaukee, and the YN’s everywhere,” the caller said. “When you got people like me working hard, grinding, getting to it, paying mortgages, paying multiple things, tenants, kids in school, why should we be disrupted by a YN that got nothing going for theirself?”
“Y’all need to show some common sense when it comes to these stuff that he’s trying to put in place, man,” he continued. “I don’t agree with everything, but guess what? This is common sense, man. Y’all know it’s bad out there, but y’all need to speak to that sometimes. Y’all try to avoid that.”
Co-hosts DJ Envy and Charlamagne disagreed with the caller’s claim that they were evasive on the issue.
“Y’all just don’t like our solutions. I don’t think we need to live in a police state. Can we try giving some of these little YN’s some resources? Can we try putting these kids in trade school, giving them some proper mental health resources, making the schools better?” Charlamagne asked. “Can we make sure they got some food in their stomach so they don’t have to resort to things like crime? Can we try that first? ‘Cause there’s a lot of people in the communities that are down to implement things like that, but they need the funding.”
The caller disagreed with Charlamagne that increasing resources for the youth would solve the issue.
“I can respect everybody’s view, Envy and Charla … And it’s no disrespect, but at the end of the day I had these resources growing up. I grew up in the hood. I grew up wildin’, but guess what? … It’s a point where you got to realize what’s going on, man,” he said. “And we got to take back control, man. Like y’all can’t let the youngest run the country, bro. That’s just plain and simple.”
Envy and Charlamagne agreed about adults needing to assert dominance over the youth in America. However, when the caller said there were YMCA’s and other options for the youth and that he didn’t “want to hear nothing about no resources,” Charlamagne asserted YMCA’s and other community resources were closing.
“[Y]’all know some of this comes down to the parents as well, bro,” the caller retorted, which Charlamange and Envy agreed.
“[A]t the end of the day, bro, black folks got common sense, bro. Y’all know right from wrong. Y’all need to chill out, man … Y’all seem to avoid the hot topic, though, bro,” the caller added. “Like black people are killed by black people in massive numbers, bro. Like come on. Wake up, y’all.”
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro of the District of Columbia said on “Hannity” Monday that there were groups of teens who commit crimes in the nation’s capital because they are “below the age of criminal responsibility unless they commit the crime of murder, rape one, armed robbery or burglary in the first degree.”
MSNBC justice and legal affairs analyst Anthony Coley also asserted on Wednesday that Washington, D.C., residents are “frustrated” by juvenile crime.
The FBI’s figures show that homicides have remained elevated compared to pre-pandemic levels in the years since 2020, except for 2021, a year when the district filed faulty data, according to Axios.
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