Hey, welcome back to the channel. I'm Brian, your host. Before we get into this incident that happened in Akron, Ohio, I just want to ask you a real quick question. Is it logical or even reasonable to live your life as part of an organized crime ring of uniformed attackers and at the same time expect to not be attacked yourself? That's what this video right here is about. There's a female cop who went out to answer a call for a robbery and ended up being attacked, but she's part of this organized crime ring, this uniformed organized crime ring that's accustomed to attacking other innocent people, extorting innocent people, violating their rights, kidnapping people, and throwing them into cages. And stay tuned to the end because there is an interesting plot twist. >> Tonight an Akron police officer is recovering after city leaders say she was viciously attacked by a suspect during a burglary investigation. >> And then did she initially do the vicious attacking? >> Police union says bystanders watched as the officer was punched in the face and bitten during that struggle before she arrested the suspect. Sia Nyorker is here in the studio with new details about this case. Sia, good evening. >> Good evening, Russ and Lena. Police say that suspect Leodis Staggert tried to take that officer's firearm during the attack and the police union says nobody stepped in to help her. Instead, some eyewitnesses recorded it on their phones and laughed. Take a look at this video recorded live on social media Monday in Akron. >> Man, cuz he beat the police, they got to come. I mean, you see how he dropped the >> When police were called to this vacant building on Copley Road for a report of a burglary, eyewitnesses say things got violent when a female police officer tried to stop a suspect as he was leaving the boarded up property. This woman, who does not want to be identified on camera, provided this video to three news and described in detail what she observed. >> I seen him on top of her punch him. I've seen him pick her up, throw her to the ground. Her clip half fell out of her gun. On top of her punch her. He tried to get up and walk away when he seen that she was getting from the ground. He started walking off and then start jogging and that's when she grabbed the taser and start tasing him and he just was down there screaming on the ground until the police came and arrested him. >> Did anybody else try to help her? >> No, nobody tried to get involved. >> Police say not only did the suspect try to take the officer's firearm, but he punched and bit her during the struggle. However, she was able to arrest the man, 56-year-old Leotis Daggett. They say the suspect had crack cocaine and drug paraphernalia. >> Leotis. Leotis. You got to turn in your man card. You let her get the better of you. I don't think he would have been got if she didn't pull out her taser and conduct a little roadside electrocution. As for the bystanders recording and laughing, well, they conducted an internal investigation on themselves and found no evidence of wrongdoing. And why would an audience stand around a female cop as she's being beaten and bitten? Is it because they're not motivated to help somebody who's in a uniform that represents the violation of rights against the rest of us, harming us in the name of protection and service, roadside harassment and constant extortion? But the plot twist is coming. Just wait for it. >> 56-year-old Leotis Daggett. They say the suspect had crack cocaine and drug paraphernalia. The officer was taken to Akron General for treatment and released. City leaders say she's recovering and denounce the vicious attack. Neighbors also condemning the violence. >> She's only here to do her job. All right? She was here to do her job. She was called out to do her job. So, for for her to be attacked like that I I it's just disgusting. >> Isn't really disgusting though when you consider the criminal history of the boys and girls in blue? Is this guy just playing it up for the camera? Does he not know what a blight to society most law enforcement organizations are? From troopers to sheriffs to deputies to regular beat cops. They're constantly beating us down as they interfere with our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This guy knows it. Maybe he's just putting a good face on for the camera so that he doesn't get the law enforcement retaliation treatment. >> For her to be attacked like that I I it's just disgusting. >> The officer's name has not been released with the union saying she's a crime victim with privacy rights under Ohio's Marsy's Law. >> Daggett remains in Summit County jail on a $100,000 bond according to the mayor's office. >> And stay tuned because here's the springboard story link that ties in the plot twist. And that's the fact that assault on police officers are up 76%. I bet there's a reason for that. >> Akron city leaders tonight say attacks on police officers are on the rise and the police union says recent attacks only highlight a troubling trend. CNN New Yorker is here now with the new details on this. Sia. >> Good evening Lena. Last week Akron's chief of Public Safety told city council committee members that assaults on officers have increased 76% this year, rising from 17 reported assaults last year to now 30 in 2026. >> Last Monday at Akron City Council Committee meeting, Chief of Public Safety Craig Morgan sounded the alarm on what he called a quote unfortunate trend. >> To be clear, um attacks on our officers, attacks on any of our safety forces, um whether it's police or fire, uh just simply cannot be tolerated. Um I'd ask everybody to assist me in in denouncing it um unconditionally and without reservation. >> Well, of course, we denounce every attack, every initiation of unjust force and violence on peaceful people who haven't done anything wrong. So, when the attackers get attacked, or actually when somebody exercises self-defense against that costumed attacker, don't be surprised when people stand around and record and laugh because justice is taking place, you know, in the minds of some. Cuz I got a question for you. What percentage of those same officers stalk, harass, attack, plunder, invade, harm, and kill the rest of us? They're out here shooting friendly donkeys, euthanizing squirrels, coming into houses and shooting pets for no reason. And then you want to condemn the bystanders for not getting involved in saving a cop who's getting beat up by a guy who might just be defending himself. We've seen time and time again, the constant desire of cops and police unions is that the rest of us stand back and just let them do their jobs. Now they want us to intervene? It's so confusing. Stand back. Give me a 25-ft safety bubble. Why didn't you help that officer when she was in need? Get out of the car. Get in the car. Will you guys make up your minds? >> I'd ask everybody to assist me in in denouncing it um unconditionally and with without reservation. >> Earlier this week, Akron police said an officer was assaulted arresting a burglary suspect on Copley Road. The president of Lodge 7, Brian Lucy, said as the man punched and bit the officer and tried to take her firearm during the struggle, bystanders recorded video and laughed. >> How can anybody possibly be surprised about this? When you live your life as an object of abuse by legalized abusers, how can you not expect that people are going to stand around and they're going to record, and they're going to laugh, and they won't help out? >> 56-year-old Leonis Daggins was arrested and charged, and Mayor Shammas Malik condemned the assault. On Thursday morning, another police encounter made headlines as Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation was called in following an officer-involved shooting on Brown Street. Akron police say 34-year-old Jonathan Moore was wanted on felony vandalism charges after allegedly going to an officer's home and smashing windows. >> Oh, a felony vandalism, going to an officer's home and smashing his windows. Kind of like they enjoy smashing our windows as they drag us out of our vehicles and impound our property, and then kidnap us and throw us into cages, and you want us to just forget about all that and risk our lives and step in and defend you as a person you might be attacking is defending themselves from you? Am I getting all this right? >> felony vandalism charges after allegedly going to an officer's home and smashing windows. The FOP characterized that as targeting and intimidating an officer. >> Exactly, targeting and intimidating. How many times have we seen stories where cops go to other people's houses and destroy the entire house, walk away, and the city doesn't even pay for it? >> Even before these recent events, city leaders are speaking out against the violence. >> There is no exception to us all uh advocating against attacks on our officers. Uh we all need to be going in the same direction with that because that >> Who's going to advocate for the people so that the officers won't attack us? >> That is unacceptable at any level because >> I agree, totally unacceptable at every level. >> We want the officers to go home the way they came to work like we want them to behave toward our citizens. >> The chief of public safety went on to say that if people who engage in such conduct will be arrested and prosecuted for such acts. >> Now, I asked this question of Grok, are assaults on police officers around the country on the rise? If so, why? And the answer is yes, FBI data shows the rate of assaults on US law enforcement officers has risen since 2001 and reached a 10-year high in 2025 even as felonious killings of officers fell that year. The FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program released its Officers Killed and Assaulted in the Line of Duty 2025 Special Report in May 2026. Agencies covered 653,044 officers reported 90,178 assaults, a rate of 13.8 per 100 officers, the highest in the decade covered by the report. The FBI states the assault rate has continued to increase since 2021. Reported victim officer counts in the same series were roughly 47,000 in 2021, 70,000 in 2022, 84,000 in 2023, 89,000 in 2024, and 90,000 in 2025. Most assaults occur in routine high contact situations, disturbances in domestic calls, attempts to resist or evade arrest, and drug-related encounters. Those contacts have long been the leading circumstances. So, when you interfere with people's right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, as in drug-related encounters, you can expect pushback. You can expect people to try to defend themselves and get away from their attacker when they've harmed no one, they've threatened no one, they've damaged no one's property, and they've stolen no property. And check this out. Count on the NYPD to fabricate something. Police organizations and some local data have linked higher assault numbers to lower perceived consequences for resisting officers in certain jurisdictions, along with staffing shortages that leave fewer officers handling volatile calls. And check this out. Academic work on motives, largely from court and coroner records, finds the dominant reasons are attempts to evade arrest and retaliatory resistance, not organized campaigns. I think the organized campaigns are coming, but attempts to evade tyranny and retaliatory resistance of tyranny and oppression. Here's the last piece of this same report. >> While responding for a reported burglary at this vacant abandoned building on Copley Road, an officer was bit and punched in the face. Thankfully, she's doing okay, but FLP President Brian Lucy says this is unacceptable. I'm Remy Murray to explain. >> It's completely unacceptable to have that type of behavior not only in Akron, but in any neighborhood or city across the country. >> It's completely unacceptable to have the cops display the kind of behavior they display toward us on a daily basis as a matter of practice and profession. >> Even next door neighbor Irvin Goodson says he's disgusted. >> She's only here to do her job. All right? >> And her job of what? Her job of initiating tyranny, making sure that the drug war is still in force, and gun laws are in forced along with the enforcement of unconstitutional traffic laws. >> She was here to do her job. She was called out to do her job. So, for for her to be attacked like that, I I it's just disgusting. >> Akron police along with Chief of Public Safety Craig Morgan released a statement saying officers were called to 914 Copley Road for a reported burglary involving individuals removing wood from a boarded up vacant building. When officers arrived, they say a responding officer noticed a man exiting the building and tried to stop him. Public Safety leaders say the man then assaulted the officer and tried to take her gun during the struggle. >> When I spoke with the officer about what happened to her today, probably the most discouraging thing for her was that while she's being assaulted, there's individuals laughing at her, recording with their phones, and uh almost like encouraging this type of behavior. >> That's kind of how we feel when you're attacking us, and all of your cops are standing around recording with their body cameras and then walking away laughing, conspiring against our rights, depriving us of our rights under the color of law. Maybe that's how we feel. And then when the shoe's on the other foot, you guys cry about it. >> And uh almost like encouraging this type of behavior. >> Akron police and Morgan said the man was taken to the Summit County Jail and charged with aggravated robbery, assault on a peace officer, possession of controlled substances among other charges. So now Goodson is calling on city leaders to do more about that property. >> I think they just need to come in, board it up real good, fence it up, and keep keep them out. >> As for the officer, Lucy said she's back to work, but he says this behavior is discouraging, especially as Akron police reports at least 40 assaults on officers since the beginning of the year. >> And then there's silence from the city administrator, the city leaders. Um and I'm equally as frustrated with the police department for not putting something out. >> Shortly after my interview with Lucy, a mayor's office spokesperson sent a statement saying, "Quote, violence against our police officers and members of our safety forces is unacceptable." >> This is understandable, but this is exactly how we feel when they attack us. Violence against regular members of the community by police officers is unacceptable. >> I then received another statement from Chief Brian Harding saying, "Quote, assaults against law enforcement officers are a serious concern, and we have seen a significant increase here in Akron." Harding also praised the officer's professionalism and talked about additional measures for training, resources, and support. >> Why is there an increase in attacks on police officers? Why isn't there an increase in attacks on firefighters or EMTs? That's because firefighters and EMTs aren't out there attacking and harassing other people. >> They should have addressed and condemned this behavior last night when this happened. >> So, attacks on cops are on the rise across the country and police officers and police unions lack the ability to self-reflect and ask themselves the question, "Why is that?" 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