Jersey Shore boardwalk mayhem puts blue state's 'soft' crime approach under microscope

New Jersey assemblywoman Vicky Flynn told "Fox and Friends" connected Wednesday that "soft-on-crime policies" successful the bluish authorities were to blasted aft a bid of brawls and stabbings occurred implicit Memorial Day play astatine a fashionable Jersey enactment boardwalk, starring to dozens of arrests.

"Over the past 7 years, determination person been galore policies adopted and deficiency of enforcement that forestall instrumentality enforcement from taking enactment to forestall what's going connected and what you're seeing astatine the shore," said Flynn, a Republican who represents Monmouth County, on the Jersey shore. 

"We person laws that prevented instrumentality enforcement from engaging with minors who mightiness beryllium caught drinking intoxicant oregon smoking pot, conscionable due to the fact that of left-leaning benignant policies to let these benignant of behaviors."

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NJ Assemblywoman Vicky Flynn joins Fox News to sermon the chaos that unfolded astatine Seaside Heights successful New Jersey implicit Memorial Day Weekend. (Left: Screenshot/FoxNews, Right: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

At slightest 73 radical – 52 adults and 21 minors – were arrested successful Seaside Heights, New Jersey, during the mayhem that began aboriginal Friday and ended astir 6 a.m. connected Monday, according to section reports. A drawstring of brawls and stabbings erupted connected the boardwalk, forcing authorities to temporarily unopen down the tourer site.

"We've taken a batch of enactment to reverse those policies, but it was that, positive adjacent the COVID shutdowns. I deliberation kids were not successful schoolhouse for agelong periods of time, their maturity levels were impacted, each of this together, but really, the soft-on-crime policies of our authorities are what led to what we're seeing close present connected our boardwalks," Flynn added. 

Host Lawrence Jones noted that a batch of the radical successful the videos posted to societal media were wearing masks. Flynn explained that some Houses of the New Jersey authorities legislature unanimously passed a measure that would person allowed instrumentality enforcement to ace down connected the radical instigating the brawls, which was blocked by Gov. Phil Murphy, D-N.J.

"These radical are coming to these areas, putting masks on, truthful that they can't get caught, truthful they're coming to these events, they're coming to the boardwalk, causing chaos, but covering their faces truthful they can't beryllium caught aboriginal connected done an investigation," Flynn said.

Murphy conditionally vetoed the bill, citing concerns that it would infringe connected First Amendment rights, according to NJ.com.

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Police escorting a detained antheral aft unit and a stabbing took implicit a fashionable Jersey Shore boardwalk. (Assemblyman Paul Kanitra/Facebook)

Flynn called for the legislature to override the governor's veto, but said the "Trenton Democrats decided to question my effort to override the veto."

Three young adults were stabbed successful abstracted incidents, Seaside Heights Detective Steve Korman told section media, adding that the 3rd stabbing prompted officials to temporarily unopen down the boardwalk conscionable aft midnight connected Monday. 

SWAT teams were connected standby up of the play aft a akin incidental occurred during past year’s agelong vacation play involving ample groups of unruly juveniles, according to FOX 29 Philadelphia. 

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Phil Murphy, politician of New Jersey, conditionally vetoed authorities authorities that would person allowed stricter instrumentality enforcement successful effect to ample nationalist brawls. (Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Jones asked Flynn if determination was country for a common-sense Republican campaigner successful the bluish state. 

"Absolutely, I bash deliberation Republicans, we’re going to person a large twelvemonth this twelvemonth due to the fact that of incidents similar this. New Jerseyans are not dumb, particularly the voters. They're going to travel retired beardown due to the fact that of these benignant of actions. They are sick and bushed of their authorities being overrun by soft-on-crime benignant policies," Flynn said.

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Fox News' Pilar Arias and Bonny Chu contributed to this report.