During a Tuesday Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) asked Attorney General Pam Bondi about the Trump administration's efforts to combat crime, specifically in Alabama's capital, where there was a gang-related shootout following a historically black and college university football game over the weekend.
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Per law enforcement, two people were killed and 14 were wounded in the shooting. At the time of the incident, the City of Montgomery was hosting and funding an HBCU celebration in the downtown area.
Britt brought up the shooting and asked Bondi generally what the White House was doing to stop crime across the country and what challenges the administration faced.
"I do want to just talk a little bit about crime in American cities. We had a horrific event occur in Montgomery, Alabama, over the weekend … two people are no longer with us and 12 people injured. My heart breaks for every one of the victims and their families and the community at large. I'd like to know a little bit about your interagency work, and talk to me about things that you find, because we have to find solutions in this space. This cannot keep happening."
"[W]hat are you seeing that is your biggest success stories and your biggest challenges you have to working to try to resolve crime throughout the country?" she asked.
Bondi responded that the government shutdown was a "challenge" but that the administration was "working nonstop to combat crime."
"[W]e are working nonstop to combat crime," Bondi said. "That's Donald Trump's only directive to me is ... make America safe again. And that's what we're going to do, Senator Britt."
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