‘Very Out of Shape!’ Megyn Kelly Mocks Women On NYPD Dance Team — Blames George Floyd For ‘Obese’ Cops

SiriusXM host Megyn Kelly mocked the “very out of shape” women of the NYPD Dance team, and said it shows the difficulty of hiring fit police “post-George Floyd.”

The NYPD Dance Team went viral and took heavy criticism for a number of reasons, most having to do with allocation of time, funding, and priorities.

On Thursday’s episode of Sirius XM’s The Megyn Kelly Show, Kelly — joined by the three co-hosts of the Ruthless podcast, which is hosted Josh Holmes, Michael Duncan, and John Ashbrook — tossed her own take into the mix.

Kelly mocked the women for being “very out of shape” and connected the phenomenon of “obsese” police officers with the George Floyd tragedy:

MEGYN KELLY: The New York City dance team and NYPD ladies have decided to burn off some of the stress from the job by dancing together. And it’s there’s so many angles to the story, I don’t even know where to begin, but I’ll just give you a flavor for how it looks. And then we can talk about the controversy that ensued. Watch.

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MEGYN KELLY: You get the gist of it.

PODCAST HOST: Make it stop! Oh, God! (laughter)

MEGYN KELLY: (laughter) I mean, genuinely concerned. Oh, yes, I see. Yeah. So there are there’s a lot of thoughts about this. And they started taking a lot of hits for this.

Some people thought they should be out policing. Some people thought, that we’re spending too much on cops.

Basically, the NYPD responded by saying that they do this on their own time. It’s their form of stress release, you know, relief. Nothing. No program was cut to fund this. It’s their own private project.

I will tell you this. My problem with it is –. I’m. And I’m all for, like, you know, exercise and burning off stress, but. Some of these women look very out of shape! And I’m just saying, if it plays right into.

PODCAST HOST: You can say this. We cannot say it!

MEGYN KELLY: Yeah I, I’m saying it there. It plays right into a preexisting problem with the police force, not just in in New York City, but in many cities across America, post-George Floyd.

We cannot get basically fit people to want to join policing. And I will tell you, it just so happens I just had, I’m not going to say it was, but it was an NYPD officer pulled me aside before this video to say that this is a massive problem they’re experiencing with overweight and in some cases, obese cops, in particular women.

But it can be go both ways who can’t even chase after the criminals they’re trying to arrest! We have lowered the standards so much that we’re actually missing arrests and bad guys.

Kelly went on to agree with a guest who said “this is part of the downstream effect that we’ve had since the George Floyd incident in 2020, where policing itself is very difficult to find people that to recruit, that are qualified to do the job” because police believe if they “arrest somebody and look at them weird, I’m going to be brought up on trial.”

Watch above via Sirius XM’s The Megyn Kelly Show.