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Posted on 01/20/2022 8:57:02 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A domestic assault suspect was freed from jail after testing positive for COVID-19, despite being deemed dangerous enough that prosecutors wanted him held without a chance of bail, the attorney for the St. Louis Police Officers Association said.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the 36-year-old man was released on Jan. 4 and has not been re-arrested. Police association lawyer Jane Dueker said the release was part of a recent policy by the administration of Mayor Tishaura Jones to limit the spread of COVID-19 in the downtown jail by not admitting people with the virus.
Messages left Thursday with representatives of Jones and Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner weren’t immediately returned. But a statement from Corrections Commissioner Jennifer Clemons-Abdullah said the department works with hospitals, police and the city’s sheriff’s department to handle detainees with the virus on “a case-by-case basis.”
The victim told police that she and the suspect were arguing when he pushed her and struck her in the face then grabbed a pot of soup from a stove and threw it at her, leaving her with burns.
Court records show that a judge on Jan. 5 ordered the suspect held without bail. A court order said he was a potential danger to the victim, the community or another person.
But by then he had already been released.
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Insane
They gladly pot covid patients in nursing homes.
The consequences of the decisions and policies made in the name of Covid have been far more dangerous than Covid itself.
SPJNK.
So the Kung Flu Bail Co. finally kicked in.
Citizens! Police yourselves!
From May, 2021:
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St. Louis’ murder rate, already highest in US, soared last year; mayor vows to defund the police
Mayor Tishaura Jones’ budget proposal would close a city jail, divert $4M from police to social programs and cut nearly 100 police jobs
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Eat your heart out Babylon Bee!
Dr. Bastiat
May 23, 2021
https://ricochet.com/964010/eat-your-heart-out-babylon-bee/
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Mayor Tishaura Jones.
And, a libtard idiot mayor strikes again! She was afraid COVID would spread in her jail more than a criminal would commit injurious crimes to her city.
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