By Steve Pomper
Radicals have intentionally made sure the requisite balance in the American justice system is so out of whack in some cities, states, and certainly in the federal government, that it’s become virtually unrecognizable. The scales of justice, rather than horizontal, are now nearly vertical.
What’s frightening is that the remaining George Soros-funded DAs (fortunately, several are gone) and those like them are disturbingly unconcerned with hiding their blatant bias, hypocrisy, and legal system malfeasance.
As James Madison wrote in Federalist 51, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.”
But we’re not angels, and too many in the political class, who’ve sworn oaths to uphold the Constitution, behave more like demons. They’re perverting our sacred American justice system to accumulate power and change that system.
For years, we’ve watched the (“mostly peaceful”) leftist militias wreak violence and destruction across America. But they couldn’t get themselves arrested, prosecuted, or convicted even if they slapped handcuffs on themselves.
At the same time the DOJ’s inflicting of bogus consent decrees on good law enforcement agencies that don’t deserve it. This sinister dichotomy is poisoning especially deep blue enclaves like New York City.
For example, there’s the Soros acolyte, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg who recently dismissed charges against 30 of the 43 pro-Hamas rioters arrested for the alleged seizure of and brief hostage-taking at Hamilton Hall at Columbia University.
According to Josh Kramer at the New York Post, “When Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg last week dropped charges against most of the protesters who seized Hamilton Hall at Columbia University on April 30, the announcement left New York’s Jewish community bewildered and angry.”
Lacking evidence hasn’t stopped Bragg from prosecuting political opponents but, in the case of the pro-Hamas rioters, he’s using the supposed lack-of-evidence excuse to drop the charges. Lack of evidence? Well, let’s see. The anti-Semites were arrested by NYPD officers after being found to be illegally within a building that they had no right or invitation to occupy.
It’s much easier to find evidence if you open your eyes.
This lack-of-evidence ploy is a trick that prosecutors use when they simply don’t want to or are told not to try a case for whatever reason. Even back in the late 90s, I remember one heroin case where a King County (Seattle) prosecutor sent me a decline to prosecute due to “a lack of evidence.” As an FTO, I had a student officer riding with me, so the arrest, investigation, and evidence collection was hyper-meticulous with two witness officers instead of one.
My student and I both saw the suspect in a city park with the needle still in his arm, starting to depress the syringe’s plunger, when we arrested him. My student collected the syringe before the suspect had finished injecting the heroin. He collected and entered the heroin into evidence. So, two eye-witness cops who saw the suspect shooting up and the heroin tested positive. Yet, the prosecutor declined the case due to a lack of evidence (Seattle’s always been ahead of the radical game).
Back then the lack of evidence declines happened from occasionally to frequently. In many places today, the lack-of-evidence-excuse has become predictable.
But Bragg’s dismissing charges really shouldn’t surprise us. After all, who were Bragg’s witnesses? The hated cops. Hence, the radical leftist DA disregards the evidence, which included police witnesses who observed and arrested the suspects who were illegally occupying a university building. After all, the witnesses are just cops, right?
That a suspect is arrested while illegally occupying a building is the only evidence necessary for a criminal trespass charge. You were either in a building or you weren’t. You either had permission to be in there or you did not.
In this skewed justice system, political opponents aren’t their only targets. Soros-tainted prosecutors far too often also target police officers. We’ve written about many of them in these pages. These DAs are prosecuting officers who’d kissed their families goodbye, donned the Kevlar body armor, badge, and gun and trudged into the jungle to do their duty according to their training and the law.
But we’ve seen case after case of officers putting their lives at risk for their communities only to have cop-hating prosecutors manufacture charges against them (like with their political opponents), and they make it their mission to put the cops in prison—for doing their jobs.
Just to mention two, there’s Lt. John Mitchell from Blackwell, Oklahoma, who was prosecuted after he shot a mobile active shooter, stopping her rampage through his community. And we have Minnesota State Trooper Ryan Londregan who shot a suspect who sped away in his car with the he and his partner still partially within the car, hurling them onto the pavement.
These cops were falsely charged by overzealous, morally corrupt prosecutors. Fortunately, these officers have been cleared in one way or another. But they shouldn’t have had to go through this persecution at all. Worse, there are other cops sitting in prison because, in their cases, the saner heads did not ultimately prevail. This current justice system where DAs would rather prosecute political opponents or cops than the criminals on their side is reprehensible and needs to stop.
Now!