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Squad’ Rep. Ayanna Pressley praises Biden for controversial commutations: ‘Death penalty is racist’
The New York Post ^ | 12/23/2024 | Victor Nava

Posted on 12/23/2024 7:54:29 PM PST by thegagline

Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) commended President Biden Monday for commuting the sentences of 37 federal inmates on death row, arguing that capital punishment is “racist.”

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Pressley, 50, described the 82-year-old commander in chief’s decision to spare dozens of convicted murderers and rapists from death as a “historic and groundbreaking act of compassion that will save lives, address the deep racial disparities in our criminal legal system, and send a powerful message about redemption, decency, and humanity.”

“The death penalty is a racist, flawed, and fundamentally unjust punishment that has no place in any society,” the congresswoman argued. “For far too long, it has been disproportionately weaponized against Black and brown communities, exacerbated systemic inequities, and failed to make America any safer — which is why we’ve urged the president for years to work with us to abolish the federal death penalty.” *** Jorge Avila-Torrez, 42, was among the federal prisoners on death row who saw their sentences reduced to life without parole.

Avila-Torrez was convicted of strangling 20-year-old Amanda Snell to death inside her Arlington, Va., Navy barrack in July 2009.

In addition to murdering Snell, in May 2005, Avila-Torrez sexually assaulted and murdered two young girls — Laura Hobbs, 8, and Krystal Tobias, 9 — who had been riding their bicycles in their neighborhood in a suburb north of Chicago. *** The murderer also kidnapped and raped a Virginia graduate student in February 2010, a few months after he murdered Snell.

*** “I thank President Biden for heeding our calls and leading with compassion, and I encourage him to continue using his clemency authority in the final days of his presidency,” Pressley concluded.

The congresswoman made no mention of the victims, such as Amada Snell and the Hobbs sisters, killed by the federal inmates granted clemency.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bidencrimewave; blacks; q; r; racists; spartansixdelta
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Of course Pressley made no mention of the Hobbs sisters and Amanda Snell. They were white and white lives don’t matter.


1 posted on 12/23/2024 7:54:29 PM PST by thegagline
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To: thegagline

“The death penalty is a racist, flawed, and fundamentally unjust punishment that has no place in any society,”

Then why did he leave three people on it?

wy69


2 posted on 12/23/2024 7:58:54 PM PST by whitney69
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To: thegagline

Weren’t they all white monsters?


3 posted on 12/23/2024 8:00:12 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: thegagline

What a useless idiot 🦧


4 posted on 12/23/2024 8:00:17 PM PST by wouldilie
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To: thegagline
What is it with this bald headed Negress look? Seems like they all are trying to look like some sort of primitive African tribeswoman. Very ugly. They hate their natural hair. Either they use chemicals to make it "look White", or they cut it all off. They sure don't like the natural Negro look.

5 posted on 12/23/2024 8:00:21 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

A brave reporter should ask if it’s true that Pressley shines her bald head by using Turtle Wax?


6 posted on 12/23/2024 8:02:06 PM PST by lee martell
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To: wouldilie

“...What a useless idiot 🦧....”

Taxachusetts has been giving em to us for years now......


7 posted on 12/23/2024 8:02:50 PM PST by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created..." )
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
A rule in my life early on.....

Black women's hair is not on my discussion list. It's a heavy burden in a vanity driven society. The words and actions speak for themselves. No need to get petty.

8 posted on 12/23/2024 8:04:35 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: thegagline

Yet the death penalty for babies is just fine with these whackos.


9 posted on 12/23/2024 8:07:01 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: thegagline

Maybe she’ll take them on the weekends


10 posted on 12/23/2024 8:09:15 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: thegagline

Stolen elections have consequences.


11 posted on 12/23/2024 8:09:34 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Even though I can’t stand Pressley, I guess I will sort of have to come to her defense on the hair, or lack of same. She has alopecia areata and has lost all her hair.


12 posted on 12/23/2024 8:09:38 PM PST by freesia2
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

In her case, it’s alopecia. I think that community has its own issues with wigs.


13 posted on 12/23/2024 8:10:48 PM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: wouldilie
I'm shocked! Once again, she played....

When in doubt.......



14 posted on 12/23/2024 8:13:14 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Day's of Lot; They id Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: dfwgator

15 posted on 12/23/2024 8:15:59 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Day's of Lot; They id Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie; thegagline; lightman

Ayanna Pressley has alopecia, so can’t help being bald.

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/17/797295985/freed-from-the-secret-rep-ayanna-pressley-opens-up-about-living-with-alopecia

However, she used to wear a wig.

And she’s a dumb-dumb Squad member, who spouts radical nonsense!


16 posted on 12/23/2024 8:16:17 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

She must have a “Van Jones” fixation.


17 posted on 12/23/2024 8:17:46 PM PST by The Duke (Not without incident.)
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To: thegagline

Says the racist.


18 posted on 12/23/2024 8:18:11 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: dfwgator
but then, this one has to come with it, LOL, because ......


19 posted on 12/23/2024 8:18:40 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Day's of Lot; They id Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: blackdog

(Black women’s hair is not on my discussion list. )

Don Imus is unavailable for comment.


20 posted on 12/23/2024 8:33:21 PM PST by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical object)
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