CNN’s Scott Jennings’ blunt justification for the harrowing DHS raid at an condominium constructing within the South Shore of Chicago was met with backlash from different panelists on “NewsNight” Friday, who questioned his empathy.
“Hear Scott, individuals’s constitutional rights are their constitutional rights,” host Abby Phillip mentioned.
Phillip’s friends, together with Jennings, have been discussing the violent immigration raid that occurred within the early hours of Tuesday morning, the place youngsters have been separated from their dad and mom and compelled out of the condominium constructing with no garments on.
One neighbor instructed CNN that almost all of these he noticed handcuffed exterior the constructing have been Black, and a few have been detained for hours. Residents who returned to their properties discovered them ransacked, with their models left open after brokers broke down the doorways, a witness told Block Club Chicago.
A DHS spokesperson instructed the outlet that 37 individuals had been arrested, and that the constructing was focused as a result of it was “identified to be frequented” by members of the Tren de Aragua gang “and their associates.”
4 youngsters who have been U.S. residents, however whose dad and mom are undocumented, have been additionally taken into custody to make sure they weren’t being trafficked, abused or in any other case exploited, the spokesperson mentioned.
On NewsNight, Jennings tried to justify the raid, stating a “transnational terrorist group” was frequenting the constructing. Phillip argued that residents who weren’t concerned in any prison wrongdoing have a constitutional proper to not be handcuffed and detained in the course of the night time.
“If you end up sleeping in your mattress and also you occur to reside someplace, you’ve got a proper to not be detained only for not even being in the identical condominium, however being within the constructing,” Phillip mentioned.
“I feel you’re overblowing it. They don’t seem to be arrested,” Jennings responded, including, “no People have been arrested.”
Jennings’ feedback evoked a robust facial response from visitor Alencia Johnson, who was the senior advisor to former Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2024 presidential marketing campaign.
Phillips instructed Jennings and The Federalist’s Brianna Lyman that neither of them would “need to be detained for any period of time for not doing something incorrect.”
“It’s a query of empathy. Would you need it to occur to you?” Phillips requested, earlier than Jennings shot again, “Do you’ve got any empathy for the victims of Tren de Aragua? I do.”
Visitor and podcaster Van Lathan instructed the group he has “empathy for the Black individuals in that neighborhood that I noticed on video speak about how frightened they have been, how scared they have been, and the trauma that was inflicted on them with one thing that they don’t have anything to do with.”
