‘Hardcore criminals? Hardcore killers? We have to lock them up,’ said Pastor Brooks
CHICAGO – On the 85th day of his 100-day rooftop vigil to build a community center designed to provide opportunities to his community, Pastor Corey Brooks wished to share his thoughts on BLM, Democrats, and “Defund the Police.”
What follows has been lightly edited. We strongly encourage you to watch the accompanying video so you may hear the pastor in his own words.
A man came up to me this past summer and asked me what I thought about all the crime going on and what we should do about it. I looked right at him and said, “lock ’em all up.” The man looked at me, surprised. Then he said, “Aren’t you worried about locking up too many black men. Our prisons are full of black men, and we can’t be locking them up.” And I said, “They’re not black. They are criminals.”
The man didn’t know what to say.
But I know where he is coming from. I truly do. It pains me to see so many young men and women who are black and locked up. But you know what else pains me even more? To see the bodies of their victims. So I’m always going to choose the side of the innocents, day and night.
There’s pain all around, and that is what it’s like living on the South Side of Chicago.
I wanna be clear: I support criminal justice reform. I’ve seen too many men taken out of the homes for offenses, such as possession of marijuana, offenses that we have now legalized. I understand those efforts and I support fixing our criminal justice system. That’s the beauty of America, that’s we always have the tools of correction at our disposal.
But hardcore criminals? Hardcore killers? We have to lock them up. We have to lock them up to protect the working people in this community. It is our right to have security. We pay taxes like anyone else and without security we cannot function as a community. And the truth be told, we are barely functioning in the first place. I know a nine-year-old who was shot twice, once on the playground and once inside his own home. I just interviewed a brilliant young man who scored a perfect score on the ACT. Those people are the people that need to be the top priority in our society. And they deserve to be able to walk down the street without fear.
Galatians 3:28 “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”
Remember when you allowed them to parade their degeneracy in your streets and libraries, on you TVs in your homes, allowed them to teach your children.
America APPROVED when it acquiesced to letting unlawful judges rule over us going back to the 60’s removing states rights, prayer, the Bible, the Ten Commandments, allowing the racist 1880’s THEORY hoax of evolution to be taught, feminazi and marxist education, then came Abortion Child Sacrifice and, legalizing abomination marriage. Now we want to turn this train around without repenting and turning back to God.
NOT GONNA HAPPEN WITHOUT PRAYER AND REPENTANCE.
America is now slaves to our sins.
Amen!