Watch Stephen Miller Have A Full Meltdown When Asked To Back Up Crime Claim With Facts
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"Why are you yelling?” the reporter asked as Trump's senior adviser refused to clarify the source of information he was spreading about Venezuela’s crime rate.

"Why are you yelling?” the reporter asked as Trump’s senior adviser refused to clarify the source of information he was spreading about Venezuela’s crime rate.

Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller had an on-camera meltdown after being asked by a journalist to back up questionable claims he was making about Venezuela’s crime rate, video of the episode posted to social media shows.

The four-minute video shows an emotional Miller yelling at NTN24 reporter José María del Pino on Tuesday after del Pino questioned Miller over his claims that Venezuela has become safer than the United States because its convicts are now all in the U.S.

Miller also repeated a since-debunked story that a Venezuelan gang has taken over Colorado apartment complexes.

  • @corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
    37•2 months ago

    Venezuelan gang has taken over Colorado apartment complexes

    This doesn’t work like that.

    In one of my home-towns, a small one, apartment complexes are ‘managed’ (owned and operated) by known-criminal organizations, and have been for a while. The oft-repeated rumours are this:

    • one building is owned by an organization of Italian origin – maybe 20 unit.
    • two buildings across the street are run by triads – 4 storeys, perhaps 80 units total
    • no mob wants cops snooping around, so one keeps the cops at bay with a very firm, paternal hand on the residents and the building – noise complaints, lights out, the occasional ruckus, and either this old man with an accent or his underling takes two very large ‘witnesses’ for quick investigation. The offender need not fear anything but abrupt eviction with no recourse at most as, again, the building doesn’t want to be the target of investigations or similar unwanted attention.

    Mob apartments are very well-run units, and ridiculously safe, in my limited experience.

    • @Machinist@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12•2 months ago

      Had a drug dealer as neighbor, for about a decade. He wasn’t a low level dealer, dude was moving weight. Must have been distributor level.

      While I wouldn’t want him as a friend, he was a good neighbor.

      He kept his business to himself. Kept an eye on anything suspicious.

      Visitors only would have their stereo up once. After that, you’d hear them turn it down when they got to the corner about a block away.