Posted on 09/07/2020 10:03:58 AM PDT by John Semmens
Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton instructed police officers in her jurisdiction to consider whether looters need what they steal before charging them.
"We need to get out from under the out-dated notion that stealing is always a crime," Becton said. "Just because one person owns something doesn't mean that someone else shouldn't take it from him. The current distribution of wealth is immoral. Actions taken to redistribute this wealth are justified if they result in a more equal sharing of the Earth's bounty. In most cases, the looting we are seeing in our cities over recent months clearly is shifting property from the more well-off to the less well-off. In such cases, the proper response by police would be to assist the looters in carrying off the merchandise from the stores they break into."
"Instead of perpetuating the systemic injustice of our racist society by hassling those engaged in looting, cops need to get in step with progressive values," Becton suggested. "Instead of cuffing the hands of the looters they should lift the other half of the big screen TV being stolen, help put it in the trunk of the getaway vehicle, fend off vigilantes trying to impede the peaceful transfer of property and give the swag-loaded vehicle an escort home."
"In the socialist utopia of the future any person will be able to enter any unlocked building or vehicle and take whatever is inside if he needs it," Becton envisioned. "Until that time, letting looters appropriate the goods they need is a good head start toward realizing this dream."
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Steal from the producers for the needs of the moochers!
The lib insanity runs deep in this one.
How does one’s mind get so screwed-up that they can see larceny as a right? Do that for everybody & you will see the country disintegrate. Unbelievable as well as unconstitutional.
don't steal from me and I won't steal from you
Ms. Becton must feel looters are lovely people since they pay no taxes and are generally on welfare. Has she considered who pays her wages.......What a fool......
Lead rule. Try to steal from me and I will give them some lead.
Cool, so I guess that those of us, who refuse to pay taxes, saying that we can’t afford it, aren’t going to be prosecuted either?
EDIT: Yes, I pay taxes, just in case anyone wondered. :P
What needs to be stolen, does not have to be stocked.
I wonder if she was one of the DAs funded by Soros and ex Attorney General Eric Holder to elect progressive social justice DAs across the country.
It doesn’t take as much money to elect a local DA who will follow the precepts of the project to not prosecute those who commit felonies if their theft is under $600. Dallas also has a DA who announced this would be the policy of his office. This makes small retail shops an unprotected target if the law is not enforced.
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