Pence: 'Black Lives Saved,' Not 'Endangered,' by Police

Former Republican Vice President Mike Pence said that police ''save'' Black lives rather than ''endanger'' them as crime nationwide increases and police departments shrink following racial unrest from the George Floyd murder last year.

''Democrat efforts to defund the police, withdraw support for law enforcement, has set off a violent crime wave that’s wreaking havoc in families across the nation. Black lives are not endangered by police, black lives are saved by police every day,'' Pence said Thursday night during the annual Hillsborough County Republicans Lincoln-Reagan Dinner in New Hampshire.

''We don’t need...