Posted on 02/03/2024 2:36:41 PM PST by grundle
Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg says he released a group of young migrants accused of assaulting two New York City police officers last weekend because he lacked evidence against them.
Controversy surrounding the case has heaped pressure on Bragg after it was revealed that only one of the 13 migrant youths accused of attacking the officers near Times Square last weekend remained in custody on Rikers Island, while the others were released without bond.
"Our profound obligation is to make sure we have the right people charged with the right crimes," Bragg told reporters Friday. "I don't think New Yorkers want to charge the wrong person."
Bragg said video footage of the assault "sickened me and outraged me," but it was impossible at the time to "conclusively identify each defendant."
Four of those arrested and since charged with felonies obtained bus tickets for Calexico, Calif., from a local New York charity and have fled New York, CNN reported. An unnamed source said the four used false names to obtain the bus tickets and might be heading to Mexico via Calexico.
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Released due to Lack of Resolve
If the cops used their guns they could charge the people with the holes in them.
This is an AMAZING campaign ad. Wonder if an in-kind contribution receipt can be made available for it?
Released cause we don’t give a sh—
And this is the idiot going after Donald Trump! Shameful!
This is so outrageous. These DAs are appointed by unaccountable people. The citizens of NYC have absolutely no say in this....Wait. Never mind.
If someone punched DA Alvin Bragg in the head, and it was caught on camera, would the person be released for lack of evidence?
Just curious. 🤔
Bragg is lying
They have video tape evidence and eyewitness accounts of these gang members robbing and assaulting customers of a retail store and then they have video tape and eye witness testimony of the same gang members assaulting police officers who showed up not to arrest them, but just to tell the gangsters to leave the area and stop assaulting customers.
At least two of these eye witnesses were NYPD officers
There was also forensic evidence that the Bragg team refused to process
Just another case of New Yorkers getting the city government they voted and so richly deserve
But you’ll prosecute President Trump without evidence.
Probably didn’t even ask the cops that were beaten to identify them in lineups.
Yet the deepState of which Bragg is integrally a part of can conclusively identify and damn j6 people to the DC gulag without shame, FJohnRoberts !
-fJRoberts-
This is what the people of NYC voted for.
I guess Andrew Cuomo was not that bad after all.
“...and might be heading to Mexico via Calexico.”
Camera footage is not evidence?
bttt
If they wore maga hats they’d be in solitary right now
A blind D.A.?
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