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Chilling video shows alleged kidnapper and rapist snatch 14-yr-old before assaulting her in public bathroom

October 13, 2022 | | Print Article

A horrific video has surfaced of a man allegedly kidnapping a young teenager in Los Angeles by threatening the minor with a weapon and then taking his victim to a public restroom where the child was sexually assaulted.

(Video Credit: LAPD)

Edward William Banks, 27, can be seen in the LAPD video with the 14-year-old adolescent Tuesday night, abducting the teen at an El Sereno park near the 4700 block of Klamath Street just hours before assaulting the victim, according to an LAPD press release.

Tips from residents led to Banks being arrested that night following the incident and he is being held on $1 million bail. He is being charged with suspicion of aggravated kidnapping to commit rape. The brazen, violent attack prompted investigators to call for additional potential victims to come forward.

In the video, Banks can be seen with his arm draped around the teenager, walking the victim down a street. At least three times during the video clip, the teen raised an arm as cars drove by them, according to the Los Angeles Times.

He then reportedly used some type of weapon to threaten the teen, pushing the unidentified victim into a bathroom where the sexual assault happened. Banks then fled the scene of the crime.

California has seen an alarming rise in violent crime in 2022 just as many other major cities across the nation have.

There has been a 21 percent rise in aggravated assaults and a 22 percent rise in robberies in Los Angeles this year, according to the Daily Mail.

The City of Angels somehow failed to report the crime data to the FBI.

The FBI announced in 2020 that it was completely overhauling its crime data collection system in an effort to improve recorded statistics on crime in the US.

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Approximately 9,700 police agencies failed to submit their crime reports to the correct system by the March 14 deadline for some reason. Two of the largest Democratically-controlled cities in the nation, Los Angeles and New York, failed to report any crime data whatsoever.

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Both Los Angeles and New York have each had over 300 murders so far this year. Overall violent crime is explosively off the charts, according to the Daily Mail.

The Brennan Center for Justice is asserting that the missing data has tarnished the image of these cities.

“With so many agencies failing to report a full year of data for 2021, this year’s annual crime data release will have significant blind spots,” analysts at the center contended in a statement.

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If the FBI’s estimate on murder rates is accurate, it would mean there were more killings in the US in 2021 than in any year since 1994, with the highest murder rate since 1996 according to Vox.

Meanwhile, as cities on both coasts see a dramatic rise in crime, Democrats are steadfastly blaming red states instead for high murder rates.

California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom recently vowed that he was going to break down “America’s red state murder problem.”

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Liberal Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is insisting his leftist bail reform and soft-on-crime policies are “working” despite Philadelphia’s 388 homicides so far this year.

“These states in the United States that have a rate of homicide that is 40% higher are MAGA states, they are Trump states,” he falsely proclaimed.

When his interviewer expressed disbelief, Krasner snapped at him.

“Republicans lie!” he asserted. “I mean, let’s just get down to it. Republicans lie. That is what they do.”

The argument misses the fact that the more reliable statistic is the murder rate in cities. The highest ones are overwhelmingly in Democrat strongholds, according to the New York Post.

“Criminal homicide is primarily (which does not mean entirely) a problem that resides within large cities. The 50 largest cities in America, home to 15.3% of the country’s population, saw 34.2% of the country’s murders in 2020; 34, or 68%, of the 50 cities had Democratic mayors in 2020, while only 14 (six of which were in blue states that voted for Biden in 2020) had Republican mayors.” the media outlet reported.

“The homicide rate in the blue cities was 15.8 per 100,000, compared to 9.4 per 100,000 in the red cities and 10.9 per 100,000 in the two cities with Independent mayors,” the New York Post noted.

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