Byron Donalds: People don’t call ‘activists or politicians’ when in danger, they call the police

House Oversight and Reform Committee Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., said on Tuesday that when people of color are in danger, they don't call activists and politicians, they call the police.

Donalds recalled his experience as "a young kid in New York City" and what his mother would do when they were in danger. "If something happened, my mom called the police. She didn't call activists. She didn't call politicians. She called the people that were there to protect and serve. And you saw the bigger cities who are trying to reverse course right now because they've seen a disaster when crime increases, because you have less officers on the street following this radical idea of defunding the police," Donalds said.