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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I guess black lives don’t matter after all.
You’ll see some Leftist loonball use a gun next time against a comedian on stage.
Also “Journalist” googles “bayonet knife” reads for .5 seconds and concludes that it is “A knife hidden inside a gun”.
Everyone is a f****ing idiot.
Let’s see if the entertainers pull out of the Ca venues as quickly as they pulled out of NC venues when voters didn’t want men in the women’s restrooms.
“yielding“
Have a super duper life, Jenny.
The sound you hear is liberal heads exploding...
And the left will blame the gun because personal responsibility and accountability is racist
Obviously, the criminal has a mental problem, like who runs on stage with a knife to attack someone in public? When he kills someone, will it then be a felony?
That is hilarious.
GasconIdiot daily giving new meaning to scum of the earth.
ohhhh...yeah, that’s pretty pinheaded.
“Everyone is a fxxxxing idiot”
I’ve been trying to embrace all this as entertainment. Making some progress but the anger is righteous and needed.
>will not pursue felony charges against the attacker who stormed Dave Chappelle’s Hollywood Bowl concert with a bayonet,
Racism!
No matter what the legal consequences may be, I have a feeling Isaiah Lee is going to be watching his back for a long time.
But since the thug is a member of a democrat 'victim group' he'll get free pass - to commit any crime he wants.
He's 'stirring the pot for George Soros...ginning up hate as if liberals didn't hate enough as is...
He was jus playin!
I’m pretty sure they’ll blame Trump first before they blame the gun!
Id sue the guy, the Hollywood Bowl and the promoter for zillions. The guy somehow got thru security AND was seated in the VIP section.
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