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Today we’re talking about JUSTICE.
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NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE
One of the left’s favorite taglines during the Black Lives Matter protests and riots was, “No Justice, No Peace.” The implication was that until police stopped killing unarmed black men and women, BLM would continue attacking police officers, looting Targets, and smashing the windows of small businesses.
I am going to employ that slogan for a different purpose today.
D.C. police have managed to catch just two of the ten people who assaulted Edward “Big Balls” Coristine as he tried to stop them from stealing the car of his female companion.
Those two individuals, who beat Coristine bloody, will avoid jail time. They will only receive probation.
The two 15-year-olds, a girl and a boy, pleaded guilty to simple assault. Simple assault in D.C. is defined as “any attempt or effort, with force or violence, to do injury to the person of another.” It is a misdemeanor offense with a maximum sentence of 180 days in prison.
The boy was originally charged with attempted robbery and simple assault in the Coristine case, and felony assault and robbery related to a gas station heist the group had committed prior to the attempted carjacking. According to reports, the boy “hit two people … then he kicked the head of another person on the ground as others took his shoes and watch.”
“The person was left with a broken rib and needed stitches to his face,” The Washington Post adds.
The girl was charged with two counts of simple assault, one for pepper spraying someone at the gas station.
The pair arguably could have been charged with Assault with Intent to Kill, Rob, or Poison, or to Commit First Degree Sexual Abuse, Second Degree Sexual Abuse or Child Sexual Abuse (emphasis mine), which is a felony and would have carried a potential sentence of two to 15 years in prison. D.C.’s charging documents note an example of when Assault with Intent to Rob would make sense:
“Jerome has just left a Metro station and is walking home after work … He is approached from behind by a man in a ski mask. The man … punches Jerome in the face … the suspect takes Jerome’s wallet from his back pocket. The suspect observes that there is no money in it, drops the wallet, and runs away. Although the suspect in this case did not obtain any property from Jerome, it is clear that he had the specific intent to commit a robbery.”
Surely beating a man who stands in the way of you attempting to carjack someone would count? No?
Instead, the two juveniles were able to plead out to one year and nine months of probation. No jail time. Zip.
Why didn’t Judge Jeanine press for more serious sentences against the teens, you might ask? Well, in D.C., juvenile crimes are prosecuted by the attorney general’s office. Unlike the presidentially appointed D.C. attorney, the AG is elected by D.C. voters.
The D.C. attorney general is Brian Schwalb, a Democrat who frets about “equity” on his “About” page. He spent his career prior to becoming D.C. AG defending people on death row — the worst of the worst criminals — and suing over alleged police brutality.
Schwalb celebrates “Indigenous Peoples Day” instead of Columbus Day and is far too busy suing 7-Eleven for selling vapes near schools to prosecute violent crime. How could we possibly expect Schwalb to use his taxpayer-funded salary to hold juvenile criminals accountable when he has such a bright future as a double-dutcher? (While, amazingly, wearing an “End Gun Violence” T-shirt. Truly beyond parody).
Let’s also talk about Judge Kendra D. Briggs, the judge who sentenced the youths to probation. She waxed poetic about the “trauma” the teens must have experienced that ultimately led to them beating people for Air Jordans at a gas station.
Briggs is, naturally, a Biden appointee. Her biography says she is “focused on building bonds of trust between the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the community, enhancing public safety through education, and encouraging community participation in the criminal justice system,” which is a bunch of gobbledygook that basically means she thinks young people who kill Uber drivers just need more after-school basketball programs.
Don’t worry about the carjackers, though. Briggs is very concerned about how quickly contractors fix broken air conditioners at juvenile detention centers in response to a complaint from “a 15-year-old charged with armed carjacking.” Lawyers for the juvenile facility said average temperatures remained at 74 and 78 degrees and that the little criminals were receiving “ice water, Gatorade and ice cream several times a day,” but Briggs still demanded daily temperature readings.
This is not a serious city. So we’re demanding NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE.
What does that mean in practice? Not hordes of people smashing windows and stealing TVs — no, that’s what raving leftist mobs do.
It means relentless political pressure. Keep the National Guard in place. Continue investigations into D.C.’s manipulation of crime statistics. Expose what these people are doing. Keep talking about our city’s crime problem until your voice is hoarse. Demand accountability. Be prepared to defend yourself if necessary. And vote like your life depends on it — because it just might.
As Coristine said in response to the sentencing of his attackers, “To this day, they’ve only caught two out of the ten. Eight of them remain on the street. That night could’ve gone far differently. Think of your daughters and mothers. The same group attacked people before and after us, breaking ribs and stomping heads. This senseless crime must be stopped.”
WHAT ELSE IS ON MY RADAR
Turns out it was a social contagion:
Conservatives Vindicated As New Research Blows Gaping Hole In Leftist Worldview
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Even they know this is the Schumer Shutdown … quick, look over here!
Legacy Media Can’t Be Bothered With Shutdown Coverage
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I always wonder what they expect to happen when they do this. Do they think she is going to publicly disavow the man she chose to spend her life with?
