We saw the horrible killing of 66-year-old Mohammad Anwar in a video, where two teenaged girls allegedly tried to carjack him in D.C., and take the means by which he made a living.

What was so troubling about the video was how little concern there seemed to be for him after they allegedly killed him in the process of trying to take the car. He was lying on the ground, while one of the girls was more concerned about getting her phone from the flipped car and didn’t seem at all concerned about him. Nobody seemed to be trying to help him, at least on the video.

CNN called it an “accident.”

Then Muriel Bowser put out a tone-deaf video about stealing cars being a “crime of opportunity” that didn’t go over well after what had just happened in her city.

But this incident doesn’t come in a complete vacuum, as Tucker Carlson pointed out last night on his show.

This came, he said, after the nationwide push to defund the police which was then followed by a predictable rise in crime and murders in cities across the country. Add on top of that the government reaction to the pandemic, taking away sports and school and you have the perfect storm for rising crime.

Tucker Carlson on the dramatic surge in America's murder rate over the last year:

"BLM did this to us. While people funding them were posturing how great they are and this is going to make America more equitable, poor people were paying the price with their lives." pic.twitter.com/yI1bh8Z9hZ

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) March 30, 2021

From Fox News:

Through mid-March, more than 370 carjackings had been reported in Chicago, the most the city has seen in a three-month period in at least 20 years, maybe much longer.

But it’s not just Chicago. This is happening everywhere is we advance toward a full year of mourning the death of a single man on the sidewalk in Minneapolis. Thousands of Americans have been murdered thanks to the policy changes justified by the death of that man. Ponder that for a minute. Has there ever been a more perverse moment in this country?

It’s not clear what we can do about it, but you can start by telling the truth out loud. According to The Washington Examiner, the murder rate in virtually every city in the United States is at its highest levels in more than two decades.

Why? At least in part because of the push to defund the police precipitated by BLM and others on the left.

“Poor people were paying the price with their lives. No one has admitted this, no one is accepting responsibility for it, and no one has been punished for it,” Carlson said.

Carjackings in D.C., particularly, have been increasing exponentially, almost three times as many as in 2019, with the majority of the crimes involving kids as perpetrators.

If you wanted to make police better, you would think that you’d want to spend more money on training, not less. The only thing defunding does is hurt the people who actually deserve and are desperate for that protection, who have the right to feel safe in their neighborhoods; to be able to drive for their job and not be attacked.