Rep. McDowell to Newsmax: Public Safety Must Be America’s Top Priority

Violent crime in cities run by “woke liberal mayors and city councils” will continue to drive voter priorities, making public safety the nation’s most pressing concern, Rep. Addison McDowell, R-N.C., told Newsmax on Thursday.

While discussing North Carolina’s vote to approve “Iryna’s Law,” a comprehensive criminal justice bill named after Iryna Zarutska, a Ukrainian refugee who was fatally stabbed on a Charlotte light rail train in August, McDowell told “Wake Up America,” “People want to feel safe.”

“To the people that are glorifying this violence, to the people that are committing this violence, and to the people that are not calling out this violence — you need to look in the mirror because you are the problem.”