Bender said, “Yes, I mean, I hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors, and myself, too, and I know that that comes from a place of privilege. Because for those of us for whom the system is working, I think we need to step back and imagine what it would feel like to already live in that reality where calling the police may mean more harm is done.”
The attentive reader will notice that Bender didn't answer the question. She deflected it with an accusation of privilege, as if it were somehow racist to expect police protection from a city to which the citizen is paying taxes for precisely that. Stupid, yes. Stupid and evil, yes.
“Camerota asked, “What if, in the middle of the night, my home is broken into? Who do I call?”
As a white person who, after all this can likely expect no help at all from the powers that be, I’m calling Smith & Wesson. It will be an extremely short-distance call.