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Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg offers sweetheart plea deal to suspect in brutal anti-Semitic attack
New York Post ^ | January 12, 2023 | Elizabeth Rosner and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

Posted on 01/15/2023 12:08:10 PM PST by grundle

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office is offering a sweetheart plea deal to a suspect charged in the brutal anti-Semitic beating of a Jewish man in Midtown, prosecutors confirmed.

Waseem Awawdeh — who defiantly said “I would do it again” after his arrest in the cowardly assault on Joseph Borgen near a pro-Israel rally — has received a six-month plea deal offer from the controversial prosecutor.

That would be a slap on the wrist compared to the up to seven years he would face if convicted of the charges, including attempted assault as a hate crime, at trial.

Awawdeh, 24, was part of a gang of brutes busted in the May 20, 2021 attack on Borgen, who was wearing a yarmulke as he walked to a pro-Israel rally near Broadway and West 49th Street.

Borgen, an Upper East Side accountant, said his attackers called him a “dirty Jew” and yelled “F–k Israel, Hamas is going to kill all of you” as they pummeled him.

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New York City District Attorney Alvin Bragg just offered a 6 month plea deal to a violent criminal who said, "I would do it again.” This is instead of a 7 year sentence if he was actually convicted. Bragg is pro-violent crime. Shame on him!
1 posted on 01/15/2023 12:08:10 PM PST by grundle
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To: grundle

Every Jew in New York should be carrying. But they know they’d be charged with murder if they defended themselves.


2 posted on 01/15/2023 12:11:08 PM PST by Twotone
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To: Twotone

The JDL needs to pay a midnight visit to the evil Bragg.


3 posted on 01/15/2023 12:15:09 PM PST by blackdog (The head, hands, and heart, serve even further than the purse. )
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To: Twotone

Every Jew in New York should know better than to vote for a Rat — but that’s what they do — save a few


4 posted on 01/15/2023 12:15:41 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Twotone

And, no offense intended but stop voting 70% Dem year after year. Dennis Prager (practicing Jew): “Jews imagine they are still voting for Franklin D. Roosevelt every year when they vote.”

Dems are soft on crime.
Good people are hard on Dems.


5 posted on 01/15/2023 12:16:50 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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I refuse to accept the legitimacy of...and the constitutonality of...all "hate crime" laws. All that I'd care about in a case like this are the extent of the victim's injuries...if the victim said,or did,*anything* that could be considered an "incitement"...and any criminal history the accused might have.

I'm very willing to assume that there was no incitement on the victim's part. And being a gang member,and having said "I'd do it again", I'd be surprised if the accused wasn't "well known to the police". So all that remains is the extent of the injuries.

6 posted on 01/15/2023 12:20:41 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (No Doubt Now: Stolen Election)
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To: Gay State Conservative

To define hate you must first include thought

There can never be thought crimes.


7 posted on 01/15/2023 12:23:23 PM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality daythis piece is )
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To: Twotone

Correction: every sane,law abiding,citizen in New York should be carrying.And it’s easy to assume that most Jews in New York can be considered to be sane and law abiding.


8 posted on 01/15/2023 12:23:52 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (No Doubt Now: Stolen Election)
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To: grundle

Why Jews continue to vote for Democrats in the numbers that they do is an enigma to me.


9 posted on 01/15/2023 12:25:23 PM PST by Parley Baer (WI)
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To: grundle

Another Soros funded DA.

When are George Soros and his son going to be tried as international war criminals. They have been responsible for more misery and death than anyone still walking the planet.


10 posted on 01/15/2023 12:25:42 PM PST by BrexitBen
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To: grundle
Whites always get the max for any "hate crime."

But if whites are the victim, then it's never a "hate crime.

As for Jews, blacks, Muslims, Asians, gays, trannies, etc. -- there's a complex, points-based pecking order, which varies from year to year, and jurisdiction to jurisdiction.

After the Summer of Floyd, blacks moved up a few notches as a protected class. Trannies also score pretty high; they clearly trump real women.

11 posted on 01/15/2023 12:28:52 PM PST by Angelino97
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To: bert

I don’t care if a white guy assaults a black guy because he was black...or because the white guy was having a bad day. If the victim has a bloody nose the white guy gets a fine and some probation. If the victim winds up in the ICU the white guy does 5 years...or more. If the victim winds up crippled the white guy does 20 years. If the victim dies the white guy gets the hot squat.


12 posted on 01/15/2023 12:32:18 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (No Doubt Now: Stolen Election)
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To: grundle

Six months for what has been described as a “brutal assault”.

Compare that to the guy in the funny hat on J6 who was sentenced to 42 months in prison for TRESPASSING (while carrying the American flag).

Equal justice. Pfffffft!


13 posted on 01/15/2023 12:32:54 PM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: grundle

“deny...equal protection of the law”


14 posted on 01/15/2023 12:41:15 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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FTA: *The spokesperson noted that Awawdeh is charged with beating the victim with his crutch, but that he did not pepper-spray, punch or kick Borgen and that he has no prior convictions."

Oh, that's different! It wasn't HIM who pepper sprayed the man, he just beat him with his crutch. Never mind a crutch can be as deadly as a gun, they're always loaded and don't go BANG when they're used in such a way. So the victim is handicapped as well as Jewish. Isn't assaulting disabled people a hate crime also?
15 posted on 01/15/2023 12:43:35 PM PST by Impala64ssa (If a liar's pants really did catch on fire CBC, ABC, CNN and MSNBC would be more fun to watch)
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To: frank ballenger

> Jews imagine they are still voting for Franklin D. Roosevelt every year when they vote. <

Great comment. That’s also true of blue-dog Democrats, of which I know quite a few. They vote Democrat, they tell me, because the Democrat party is the party of the working man.

Well, the last Democrat leader who was for the working man was Jimmy Carter. The D’s are now for perverts, criminals, and folks who simply don’t want to work at all.

It frustrates me that I cannot get that point across to my blue-dog friends.


16 posted on 01/15/2023 12:45:33 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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“Jews imagine they are still voting for Franklin D. Roosevelt every year when they vote.”

Also, Mayor Ed Koch, a lifelong Dem himself said Jews live like WASPS yet vote like Puerto Ricans. My beloved parents were among the original members of the #Jexodos movement. They switched parties around the same time Pres Reagan did, and for the same reason. They didn't leave the party the party left them.
17 posted on 01/15/2023 12:49:19 PM PST by Impala64ssa (If a liar's pants really did catch on fire CBC, ABC, CNN and MSNBC would be more fun to watch)
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To: Gene Eric
They either learn the error of their ways or they perish.

Either way they will have earned their (collective) fate.

18 posted on 01/15/2023 12:54:43 PM PST by NativeSon ( *> <*)
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To: grundle

This is surprising? Alvin Bragg is a blatant advocate of Kill Whitey (and Jews doubly so).


19 posted on 01/15/2023 1:03:28 PM PST by robowombat ( )
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To: Parley Baer

“Why Jews continue to vote for Democrats in the numbers that they do is an enigma to me.”

Republicans are considered “dangerous” to them. That’s what they are told anyway.

Besides, what do you want? Trouble? It’s best just to go along


20 posted on 01/15/2023 1:12:25 PM PST by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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