Posted on 09/01/2020 4:55:10 AM PDT by MtnClimber
“This is the end” spoke The Doors. And we may now have come to that moment as a nation.
New guidance from Diana Becton, first-term Costa County (California) District Attorney, states that law-enforcement officers must consider if looters “needed” the merchandise they stole before charging them. And whether a shop is open or closed when the thievery takes place matters, and whether the looting was done because of a "state of emergency" or "just because" makes a difference in who gets charged, too. That the looting happened seems irrelevant.
RedState's Deputy Managing Editor Jennifer Van Laar has a watermarked screen shot of an internal Contra Costa County DA's office internal guidance document called "Looting Guidlines.docx (sic)" that appears to confirm the prosecution policy.
And if all true, it would explain why looters keep looting in the Bay Area, given all the huge loopholes for avoiding any charges. There likely isn't a single charge that can't be dismissed in Contra Costa on these described grounds.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
-We are told BLM doesnt riot.
-Antifa doesnt exist.
-The riots are all Trump supporters or “white supremacists”.
But...
-Hollywood is donating to bail out the rioters.
-The DNC doesnt really condemn it.
-The leftist DAs are letting them go, and saying that “maybe those 300.00 Jordans are a “necessity”?
Correct. That needs to be posted on the wall in every police precinct and cop car dashboard in her jurisdiction:
Diana Becton, first-term Costa County (California) District Attorney, states that law-enforcement officers must consider if robbers “need” the items they steal from her house before charging them.
“Looting a powerful tool to bring about real, lasting change in society”
Then let’s make of list of important items that are ok to loot.
Work boots.
Work clothes
Essential food stuffs
Toothpaste
Bottle for water at work
Please feel free to add here if you can think of other important items.
I knew it without having to look.
Contra Costa County DA’s office internal guidance document called “Looting Guidlines.docx (sic)”...
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“Looting Guidlines (sic)”. A misspelled, oxymoronic document by a moronic DA.
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Yes sir..! Like horse thefts and cattle rustlers..
Arrest her on Federal charges of inciting rioting and looting. File civil lawsuit to make her reimburse looting damages. Saying crap like this is inciting crime.
For personal hygiene and to wash aforementioned work clothes at the laundromat.
Sorry, no looting money to pay for the use of the coin-op washers and dryers. That comes out of the thing called a "paycheck".
It actually makes one feel pretty good, to take care of one's own dirty laundry one's own self and to walk out with clean laundry anew...
Berkeley is in Alameda County. Contra Costa is east of there.
She’s all for it, unless they loot her stuff, right?
Yeah well this destruction of society will be real and lasting,
And a change....for the worse.
then let’s restrict all of these mostly peaceful riots to California.
... bring about real, lasting change in society
Indeed. The Roman Empire took a hit from the Vandals, and never recovered.
Cause the Vandals took the handles.
My response is going to be...” then you won’t care if we pretend shoot looters and rioters who aren’t really there anyway...right?”
How to Loot for Fun&Profit For Dummies
Available now at fine stores that haven’t already been torched and looted in your ‘hood.
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