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Charges against hundreds of NYC rioters, looters have been dropped
By Lee Brown and Julia Marsh
June 20, 2021 | 8:14am | Updated
In The Bronx — which saw fires in the street and mass looting in June 2020 — more than 60 percent of arrestees have had charges dropped, according to the investigation by NBC New York.
Seventy-three of the 118 people arrested in the borough had their cases shelved altogether, another 19 were convicted on lesser counts like trespassing, which carries no jail time, the report said. Eighteen cases remain open, with NBC not accounting for the other eight arrests.
“Those numbers, to be honest with you, is disgusting,” Jessica Betancourt, who owns a Bronx eyeglass store that was looted and is vice president of a local merchants association, told NBC. “I was in total shock that everything is being brushed off to the side.
“They could do it again because they know they won’t get the right punishment,” she added of the rioters who again left the Bronx burning.
“It sends a message that you might get arrested if you express your views and first amendment rights,” said Vera Eidelman, staff attorney with the ACLU’s speech, privacy and technology project.
Umm, no, Miz Eidelman.
It sends a message that you might get arrested if you disobey the law, like breaking curfew, throwing bricks through windows, blocking streets, stealing things from stores, threatening people etc.
You got a problem with that?
Tough.
OTOH, YOU are sending the message that people can riot all they want and face no consequences.
Most charges against George Floyd protesters dropped, analysis shows
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Tom Perkins
Sat 17 Apr 2021 08.00 EDT
The vast majority of citations and charges against George Floyd protesters were ultimately dropped, dismissed or otherwise not filed, according to a Guardian analysis of law enforcement records and media reports in a dozen jurisdictions around the nation.
But some prosecutors and law enforcement observers charge that departments carried out mass arrests as a crowd control tactic, as a means to silence peaceful protesters, and as a public relations strategy designed to turn the public against demonstrators by making them appear more violent than they were.
“It sends a message that you might get arrested if you express your views and first amendment rights,” said Vera Eidelman, staff attorney with the ACLU’s speech, privacy and technology project. “Police absolutely should not be relying on mass arrests to control a crowd or silence people who they disagree with.”
In most of a dozen jurisdictions examined, at least 90% of cases were dropped or dismissed. In some cities, like Dallas and Philadelphia, as many as 95% of citations were dropped or not prosecuted.
In Houston, about 93% of citations were dropped; in Los Angeles, about 93% of citations were not filed. The prosecutor’s office in San Francisco dismissed all 127 cases related to “peaceful protest-related charges”, though data for more serious citations was not available.
Officials did not file charges for nearly all low-level offenses, like disobeying curfews.
They arrested people en-masse, then realized they didn't have evidence to charge 73 of those people. Are we saying people should be charged with crimes with no evidence of their guilt? That article says dozens of people are still being convicted.
The vast majority of people at those protests were peaceful. it is good the law isn't charging people who didn't actually commit crimes.
The vast majority of people at those protests were peaceful.
TRANSLATION: I hate it when people in authority expect us to obey the law. Especially law I don't like. So I'll make up another requirement: If people are "peaceful", then they shouldn't be busted for breaking laws such as curfews, blocking streets, disturbing the peace etc.
TRANSLATION: I hate it when people in authority expect us to obey the law. Especially law I don't like. So I'll make up another requirement: If people are "peaceful", then they shouldn't be busted for breaking laws such as curfews, blocking streets, disturbing the peace etc.
Bingo. You simply stated what the poster you responded to truly desired..anarchy.
I am enjoying the fact NYC lags all major cities in economic recovery. It is directly connected to the rioting. International tourists with lots of money feel unsafe. Beauty is it will keep NYC unemployment sky high amongst the low wage service staff who desperately need those jobs back. Their $300 ui bonus ends soon, after all. So merited that their political mindset hurt their own wallet.
The Rudy G/Bloomberg NYC economic miracle was a function of making the city safe again. Comrade DeBlasio pushed NYC back into the sewer, one left-wing riot at a time.
They arrested people en-masse, then realized they didn't have evidence to charge 73 of those people. Are we saying people should be charged with crimes with no evidence of their guilt? That article says dozens of people are still being convicted.
The vast majority of people at those protests were peaceful. it is good the law isn't charging people who didn't actually commit crimes.
Delusional.
The looters went essentially unpunished. This kind of behavior by the authorities only emboldens criminals to continue stealing.
Individuals like these have no functional place within an ever increasingly cognitive complex world, and they know it, at some level; added to their irresponsibility is leftist poison such as that which determines that nonwhites can't be racist, and that their plight in life is due to white people.
Low-life miscreants who cannot contribute and therefore rob, steal, plunder, and kill.
Leftists like yourself are little better. Perhaps you don't personally loot, but that's probably the only thing that makes you less of a social hazard.
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They arrested people en-masse, then realized they didn't have evidence to charge 73 of those people. Are we saying people should be charged with crimes with no evidence of their guilt? That article says dozens of people are still being convicted.
The vast majority of people at those protests were peaceful. it is good the law isn't charging people who didn't actually commit crimes.
You know for a fact that those not being charged hadn't committed crimes? Rioting protesters across the country, and probably in NYC, have been/are being released with no charges even after they admitted to committing felonies and/or have been captured on video committing felonies. Do you believe it is good that the law isn't charging them too?
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