Furor Erupts Over Killing of Witness in MS-13 Gang Case.The slaying became a flash point for opponents of changes to the criminal justice system pushed by progressive lawmakers in New York.

New York Times ^ | February 5, 2020 | Ed Shanahan

[karpov]

Democrats do not want to deport illegals who become MS-13 gang members, they support "sanctuary" for illegals so that they are not reported to ICE when they commit crimes, and they give MS-13 gang members the names of witnesses who would testify against them. Whose side are they on?

[a fool in paradise]

The Italian mob used to bribe cops to look the other way.

What is the Mexican mob using to buy influence?

[mewzilla]

Whatever it is, they gotta lot of it.

They own Albany.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Baseball bats ?

[DuncanWaring]

“Lead or gold”.

[nuconvert]

Not the 1st time they’ve killed a witness

[a fool in paradise]

Corrupt democrat bosses want more voters at any price to America.

[Lurkinanloomin]

New York politicians would rather Americans die than enforce US immigration laws.

[mewzilla]

Not just Democrats...

[wjcsux]

Most of the time, the Italian mobsters didn’t kill their victims back in the day. They persuaded them to see things differently.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Corrupt democrat bosses want more voters at any price to America.
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Unfortunately there are plenty of Bush League Republicans that want to help them get that permanent majority with amnesty.
Graham, Rubio, Hoeven and Murkowsky have already done it.
Graham has done it THREE times.

[a fool in paradise]

The mob kills snitches. Even decades later people are afraid to say things even in passing.

[heartwood]

The prosecutor could have requested and the judge ordered that the witness’s name be shielded, or released only to defense attorneys and not the accused (which is open to many a slip.)

This should be standard in gang cases.

It’s quite possible they already knew who they had beaten up.

[CedarDave]

The Homeland Security acting secretary Chad Wolf was just on Tucker. Tucker asked about New York issuing driver’s licenses to everyone. The Secretary said that was of concern, but of more concern are restrictions preventing ICE and Customs and Border Protection from accessing the NY DMV data base to get photographs and other records. Because of that the Secretary said DHS sent a letter today to the New York saying they were discontinuing applications and renewal for NY residents using the “Global Entry) trusted traveler programs like TSA PreCheck, Clear, etc.

Stan by for major uproar!!

[metmom]

Couldn’t see that one coming, could we?

[Chode]

no... no, not at all

[Major Matt Mason]

Yep, these "reforms" were implemented so the Marxists could turn these criminals into their foot soldiers. This is the "army" Obama was referring to on the campaign trail back in 2008.

[monkeyshine]

First, they stabbed him several times and beat him with a bat - but were not charged with attempted murder? Only “assault”?

Second, knowing their violent tendencies they didn’t provide the witness any protection?

Murdering witnesses is the kind of the thing the Mob used to do. And allowing witnesses to go unprotected is only going to make it harder for prosecutors to get witnesses in future cases.

This was a fustercluck every which way you look at it.

[rxh4n1]

They need guards for the Gulags they want to put us in.

[livius]

NY State has made major changes to the justice system and now even judges cannot get someone kept in jail, prevented from learning the identity of the witnesses, etc. The whole point of the article is that there is now no protection, and this was the first death directly traceable to this new policy.