{O/C} Violence and extremism are strutting their way through America's heart, and attacks on law enforcement are sickening.
That's the fiery sentiment President Joe Biden amplified during a speech in Pennsylvania.
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This is the paradox.
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JOE BIDEN, U.S. President:
Don't tell me you support law enforcement if you won't condemn what happened on the 6th.
For God's sake, whose side are you on? Whose side are you on?
You can't be pro-law enforcement and pro-insurrection. You can't be a party of law and order and call the people who attacked the police on January 6th "patriots."
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Against the backdrop of gun violence and attacks on the FBI, President Biden couldn't help but fiercely defend law enforcement and called the attacks "sickening."
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But now it's sickening to see the new attacks on the FBI, threatening the life of law enforcement agents and their families for simply carrying out the law and doing their job.
There is no place in this country, no place for endangering the lives of law enforcement.
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The President's speech at Wilkes University in Pennsylvania continued with a stinging criticism of the Republican Party's "Make America Great Again", or MAGA, fever that's obliterating democracy.
In addition to his pitch to win the momentous November mid-term elections, he also singled out Republicans who proposed defunding the FBI.
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When it comes to public safety in this nation the answer is not "defund the police", it's "fund the police."
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Earlier in the day, a father was fatally struck by bullets at a gas station in Philadelphia, but his 14- and 10-year-old kids miraculously survived.
That was just cause for the president to tout his administration's crime-prevention efforts as he pressures Congress to resurrect a mothballed federal ban on assault-style weapons.
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I'm determined to ban assault weapons in this country.
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