Posted on 05/05/2022 1:47:35 PM PDT by thegagline
LA's woke DA George Gascon will not pursue felony charges against the attacker who stormed Dave Chappelle's Hollywood Bowl concert with a bayonet, reducing the charges to misdemeanor instead.
Isaiah Lee, 23, ran on stage at the show on Wednesday yielding the knife that was hidden inside a gun. Chappelle, 48, was able to sidestep him and was unharmed. The attacker was then arrested at the scene, and taken to hospital with a broken arm.
There were immediate questions over security at the event and how the man could have smuggled in the weapon.
But Gascon's office - which is famously in favor of low-or-no-cash-bonds - is not pursuing the most serious line of punishment.
Instead, they have referred the case to the LA City Attorney Mike Feuer, recommending a misdemeanor charge because 'the evidence as presented did not constitute felony conduct,' according to ABC.
It means Lee, who is currently being held on a $30,000 bond for felony assault with a deadly weapon, may soon walk free. It's unclear when he is next due in court.
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Gascon, a 67-year-old former assistant chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, took over as district attorney in the heavily Democrat city in December 2020 and immediately embarked on a progressive justice reform agenda.
He has been vocal about his belief that the criminal justice system needs to focus more on intervention and rehabilitation, blasting 'tough on crime' policies as racist and a failure.
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Was this a dry run?
Im a big Chappelle fan but this is wonderful news. That sucking sound you hear is wind being pulled in to both ends of the Hollywood smart ass class.
Handy for field dressing Democrats...
Here’s some more handiwork of your friend Soros, you know, the “real bogeyman”!
Chapelle will publicly roast the DA the next time he’s on stage.
Wife and I watch the show Bosch which is set in today’s Los Angeles. I laugh when the show calls homelessness a pandemic. In reality its made California a laughing stock of the world. LA basically becoming a justice free zone.
Good memory. I think the last time I saw that image was looking through a book on Pulitzer Prize photos decades ago.
B-but celebrity lives matter...don’t they?
WTH, itβs not like he attacked a rich white guy, so no problem ππππ
When we said “justice”, we didn’t mean for you. :)
Yep, most people don’t know the history of this.
Oh dear!
The perp will probable sue the security people for his injury. Gascon may have ambulance chaser contacts.
He was, at least, willing to “Yield”....
You know that kid knew how to wield it
That edged weapon made an ancient statement to the Japanese
He did them a favor
Yep, the Socialist/Communist party collapsed shortly after his death.
The knife was in his bag, and not on his person when “tackling” Dave.
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