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All while seeking brought bipartisan support. the call for reform comes amid a rift within the administration over comments made by fbi director james comey, who has twice in recent days said the recent uptick in crime in some cities is likely the result of a ferguson effect. where law enforcement officers act more restrained over fear of being recorded on video. >> i spoke to officers in one big city. at a precinct house who described being surrounded by young people with mobile phones, video cameras rolling as they step out of the car, taunting them. asking them what they want and why they'r...

>> the white house pushing back on the fbi? >> there's an overwhelming problem we know with gang violence. we 0 know that activists lump in a lot of these incidents and give a blanket statement that they were all unjustified and they were all victims. meanwhile, there's a dramatic rise in crime. comey mentioned the ferguson effect. but he said something that people kind of ignored. he linked it to a release of violent felons. which puts to rest this myth that overcrowding in prisons are filled with these nonviolent people that once we release them, they're just going to go back to picking dais...

♪ with you i can feel again >> good morning to you and welcome to "fox & friends first." nice to have you with us. i'm heather childress. >> i'm heather insainsley. >> the director of the fbi saying anti police rhetoric is to blame for ame all across the country. now the white house is firing back. kelly wright with the latest. >> heather and ainsley, good morning to you as well. fbi director james comey saying police throughout the country are not effectively combating crime due to what he calls the ferguson effect. comey describes that as police officers being hesitant to aggressively co...

Important. people don't want to believe what their eyes are showing and showing and telling them. i think that people should look at this video and ask themselves, is this appropriate? what if this were my child, is this excessive? and i think it's really clear that it is. >> the video is very, very disturbing. actually difficult to watch. sunny hostin joining us there from new york. thanks as always. >> thanks. well, a south carolina incident is the latest in a series of heavily publicized encounters between police officers and civilians in the last year. many involving white officers engag...

Actually are. listen, i don't defend bad cops and what we see here is certainly questionable and ought to be questioned. we need answers as a community about what happened there, as we do in all these situations. >> you know, this video plays right into the very same narrative we heard the director of the fbi talking about yesterday. that is the so-called ferguson effect. that is that cell phone video is so ubiquitous now is it's actually having a chilling effect on police officers. they don't want to do their job because they may be caught on cell phone video because they may be caught doing ...