Tuesday 21 June 2022 12:16 AM Former sniper Tim Kennedy tells Joe Rogan that 'defund the police' is to blame ... trends now
Former Green Beret sniper and MMA fighter Tim Kennedy believes that the 'defund the police' movement carries some of the blame for the Robb Elementary School shooting.
Kennedy, 42, shared his insight on the shooting deaths of 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde in May during an appearance on 'The Joe Rogan Experience' on June 16.
Kennedy cited 'defund the police,' a movement born out of nationwide protests following the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, as playing a role in the Uvalde shooting because officers are being trained 'with broken systems' and as a result 'are not ready to do the right thing.'
The former MMA star predicted that there will be more incidents like Uvalde.
Kennedy said: 'We have been weakening them and we have been making them ill-equipped to respond to that. And then I think Uvalde is a great example of not properly trained with broken systems that are not ready to do the right thing.
He continued: 'We will have more of that unless we get them the right training and we get our schools to become hard targets. And then we go upstream to the origin, the Genesis of these problems, which is mental health with the individual.'
He added: 'Only then, can we go upstream to the origin, the Genesis of these problems, which is mental healthy with individual.'
Former sniper Tim Kennedy told Joe Rogan that he expects more incidents like Uvalde until officers get better training
Kennedy told Rogan that only after we invest more in police officers can we look at other issues that cause mass shootings
Kennedy also said that due to the 'defund the police' movement 'nearly every large city has seen a crazy rise in crime'
Kennedy said at one point of the conversation: 'How does it make any sense that I’m going to provide this group that I want to protect us with less training and less funding, but than still want them to be a better product to be able to protect us?'
The city of Uvalde invests 40% of its yearly budget into its police force, the department has a SWAT team and there is a police department for the Uvalde School District.
Uvalde, a city with a population of 16,000, spends $4 million on the police force. It will be the largest expense in the city's budget for 2022, reports Bloomberg.
The network says that in 2020 the school district police force received more than $500,000 in local and state funding for 'security and monitoring' for schools.
In 2004, Kennedy joined the military, completing various Special Forces training programs. He told Fox News in June 2022 that he was motivated to enlist following the attacks of September 11. Kennedy said that the attack 'infuriated' him.
While in 2018, Kennedy told DailyMail.com that the FBI was
