Kathy Hochul
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and stop militarizing our streets with people who have literally days or weeks of training compared to the police officers that I go to their graduations.
I support our police here in the state of New York.
And they have six months of in-person training.
They leave their families and they're trained in conflict deescalation and all the other strategies you want someone to have before you give them a gun.
And I'm sick and tired of masked people roving our streets, terrorizing kids, taking kids, using them as bait.
And I'm New York's first mom governor and you start messing with kids, I'm gonna be pissed off more than anybody.
And so that's my state of mind right now.
There's an anger, but it's also leading to policies and changes here in New York as we all try to figure out at the state level how we can protect the integrity of our states and our morals and our values that have gotten us through all these decades.
And now they're under attack and we have to stand up.
And I don't know what their political calculation is, but you basically antagonized everybody in the country, right?
The Hispanics who thought you were promising just to get rid of the baddest of the bad, right?
The criminals, the terrorists, the human traffickers, the drug dealers.
Many of them supported the president, not all certainly, but many did because they bought into his message of affordability.
A lot of people bought into the message of affordability.
Prices are gonna come down day one.
Remember that one?
My God, the cost of ground beef and all the things that you need to buy for your families are just going off the charts.
And I'm trying here in New York to make it more affordable.
And it's a challenge.
because I've got tariffs driving up costs for my farmers.