SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - Officials in Shreveport are responding after California Governor Gavin Newsom mentioned the city by name in a recent interview posted on X on Aug. 14.

The governor said in an interview with political commentator, Brian Tyler Cohen:

“I think he [President Donald Trump] should start with Shreveport, Louisiana and Speaker Johnson’s district that has 6x+ the per capita murder rate of Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco. What about the carnage, Mr. President, in Shreveport? Why aren’t you protecting the folks there? Eight of the top ten murder states in this country are red states. What bull****. And everyone knows it. Everybody knows it. Again, it’s acts of authoritarianism, it’s acts of power on a person that is trying to use his formal authority and it’s depleting, and it

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