offers more threats nearby. state side a number of critical republican primaries have the attention of washington and bedminster. looks like we already have winners if you can believe it or not inner missouri and michigan and the polls have just closed in arizona. now this hour s going to be a high wire act as we bring you all of these breaking stories but we begin tonight with threats and truth. that is the focus of tonight s angle. five years ago, speaker visit taiwan. it was completely wrong. the u.s. draw a lesson from it instead of making repeated mistakes. laura: it s now, well, let me just tell you one thing. 10:00 a.m. in taiwan and, to her credit, nancy pelosi didn t back down when china essentially threatened to shoot her plane out of the sky. now she s been the ground for what, about 12 hours or so landing here just after 10:30 a.m. eastern today. we re going to bring you news about the specifics of her meetings at any moment. now, remember, trip details have b
minneapolis police but we need to completely dismanning the minneapolis police department. laura: tonight we re here just outside of minneapolis a not far from omar s district where everything blew up following george flied. what happened in the sticks sparked nationwide arrest we all remember it and the summer of love 2020, shortly after the riots here ended we came to assess the damage that this once fairly calm community was enduring. it was overwhelming what i saw. i couldn t believe any of it, frankly. and yet the suffering hasn t stopped. the number of minneapolis homicides in the first half of 2022 is 39% higher than they were during the first half of 2019. even the college towns, they re not safe. at the university of minnesota, there were about 2100 criminal incidents reported across the university area neighborhoods. that is up 40% from the prior
black americans. criminal justice experts say at least one of the factors in the surge is the defund the police movement. a top priority of the far left. mike tobin follows up on that in chicago. what did you find? experts say you can connect the dots when you see one of these high-profile police-involved death and a rise in crime. you can connect the dots to what the st. louis police chief first called the ferguson effect. police pulled back. reluctant to get involved. criminals get away with small crimes and progress to bigger ones. black people pay the highest price. the year that mike brown was killed in ferguson, missouri, murders of black people increased by 15%. the following year freddie gray died in a prisoner transport van in baltimore. murderer of blast men jumped by 20%. george flied was murdered. murders of black people jumped 32% from the previous year.
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sued the city for the lack of police presence but council members argue funding various social programs would stop the violence. this november voters will get their say and decide if the police department should be replaced with a new public safety division. today here in minneapolis and across the country groups are marking the anniversary of george floyd s death with rallies and events to call for greater accountability in policing. this afternoon the family of george flied will meet with president biden to discuss those efforts namely the george floyd justice and policing act which, of course, is under negotiation in the senate now. harris: thank you very much. i want to bring in texas governor greg abbott saying he will sign a bill passed by his state making it harder for cities to defund the police and that could put him at odds with democrat-run cities like austin, texas. police there took 16 minutes to respond to a 911 call of a