Fox News interviewer and producer Jesse Watters attempted to get some comments about the tragic killing of Kate Steinle from San Francisco officials earlier this week but found that they weren’t so enthusiastic about commenting on their culpability in her death.
During his trip to San Francisco, Watters first conducted a few man-on-the-street interviews with San Franciscans, most of whom expressed dismay that San Francisco’s “sanctuary city” policies, which effectively thwart federal immigration policies, had allowed a five-times deported, multi-felony illegal immigrant to take an innocent woman's life.
Watters then attempted to get a response from San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, but was redirected to Communications Director Christine Falvey. When Watters told Falvey that he was trying “to get a few answers about the sanctuary city police,” Falvey assured him that the mayor thought it was a "very serious issue," but, like the other San Francisco officials Watters encountered, remained "very vague" about the city's specific responses to the tragedy.
Here's the exchange:
WATTERS: I came all the way from New York just to get a few answers about the sanctuary city police.
FALVEY: He did send out a statement about this issue. It’s a very serious issue. […]
WATTERS: Is taking it seriously just sending out a little piece of paper, when someone’s murdered because of a policy you support? That doesn’t sound that serious to me.
FALVEY: I don’t think that’s characterized correctly.
WATTERS: How is that mischaracterizing it?
FALVEY: He takes this very seriously.
WATTERS: How did I mischaracterize it?
FALVEY: It’s deeply sad for that family, and the mayor is going to continue to work on this issue. It never should have happened, and he wants to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
WATTERS: How is he making sure it doesn’t happen again, specifically?
Falvey began to speak generally about him doing "a number of things," a frustrated Watters asked how many "dead people" it would take to make changes:
WATTERS: Several times this has happened in your city. How many dead people does it take?
In the follow-up discussion, Bill O’Reilly noted that nobody in the mayor’s office seemed to have any emotion at all in their responses. Watters agreed, saying, no one in the board of supervisors "even looked me in the eye" and noting that they spent more time "talking about banning alcohol from Starbucks than they did actually addressing the sanctuary city policies that’s put a real black mark on the city."
H/t TheBlaze. Video via Fox News.
