Posted on 09/27/2022 1:03:13 PM PDT by thegagline
An accused career criminal and onetime darling of bail-reform advocates was nabbed by cops on an attempted-murder warrant Monday after he failed to surrender as planned, police said.
Pedro Hernandez, 22, was apprehended by the NYPD in The Bronx around 3:30 p.m. and taken to the Midtown North Precinct in Manhattan, where he was held until he was hauled off to court in handcuffs at 4:40 p.m. *** He was charged with attempted murder, attempted assault, reckless endangerment and criminal possession of a weapon, police said.
Hernandez was being sought on an attempted-murder charge stemming from an Aug. 28 shooting outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral during a dispute over a three-card monte game.
Hernandez, who has a lengthy criminal record and three open gun cases in the Bronx, was once championed by criminal-justice advocates who fought to get him released after he served one year at Rikers Island on a 2015 robbery case. Hernandez had refused to cop a plea deal in the case and was held behind bars till a liberal advocacy group sprang him on $100,000 bail.
The group, the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Foundation, was among advocates calling for lower or no bails in many cases, saying the system discriminated against minorities and the poor.
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Racing to the bottom because of a certain race. This isn’t going to end well.
We don't have a race problem in America.
In America we have a problem race.
The “system” should be set up to keep recidivist career criminals behind bars and away from law abiding citizens. Anything else is just stupid.
Is he out yet?
WE have a problem race:
60+++ years
$29 TRILLION +++
We bought ourselves a feral army of barbarians who hate us.
yes, all those evil white supremacists. /s
even in death, Lyndon Baines Johnson sows destruction.
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