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DA Bragg paints trees in NYC’s Washington Square Park to ‘heal’ the city — as junkies get free needles and nod off all around
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Posted on 07/20/2025 7:17:32 AM PDT by BenLurkin

Soft-on-crime District Attorney Alvin Bragg was spotted by The Post brush in hand, lost in a watercolor sketch, as part of his “art of healing” July workshop series.

The choice of location was no coincidence — the northwest corner of the park has spiraled into a depraved drug den, with syringes littering the ground and zombies shooting up on park benches and under trees.

Moments before Bragg began painting a tree in watercolor, the city’s drug crisis blossomed in real time a few feet away.

Police officers tried to revive a glassy-eyed junkie slumped on a bench — and workers from the nonprofit Drug Policy Alliance were seen covertly slipping free syringes to addicts.

The needles are part of so-called “harm reduction kits” the $13 million pro-drug non-profit touts online.

They come complete with drug paraphernalia that includes syringes, alcohol wipes, cotton, tourniquets and cookers, according to the group.

It’s unclear how long the group – which was founded in 1994 with funding from far left-billionaire George Soros and lobbied for marijuana legalization – has been operating in the junkie-filled section of the park.

Soros is the Drug Policy Alliance’s chief donor and previous chairman. His son Alex Soros still sits on its board.


(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: US: New York
KEYWORDS: alvinbragg; andrewcuomo; curtissliwa; defundthepolice; districtattorney; ericadams; kathyhochul; newyork; newyorkcity; softoncrime; zohranmamdani

1 posted on 07/20/2025 7:17:32 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

It’s time for NYC to kick that fat pig to the curb!


2 posted on 07/20/2025 7:18:39 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: BenLurkin

Hey! Hey! Hey! When is FAT Alvin going to be thrown in prison? Lock his fat butt up!


3 posted on 07/20/2025 7:19:13 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If you have asylum in the U.S. and you go home to visit family, is it like violating a Protect Order)
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To: BenLurkin

Bring back vagrancy law enforcement and 30-days-on-the-farm.


4 posted on 07/20/2025 7:20:22 AM PDT by The Free Engineer
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Pronto.


5 posted on 07/20/2025 7:21:29 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: BenLurkin

What staggering virtue signaling!


6 posted on 07/20/2025 7:22:41 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: BenLurkin

Soft-on-crime Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg scored free seats to 17 swanky galas last year

https://nypost.com/2025/07/19/us-news/manhattan-da-alvin-bragg-scored-comp-tickets-to-17-swanky-galas-last-year-many-by-lefty-groups/


7 posted on 07/20/2025 7:25:52 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: BenLurkin

Typical Dem jackassery. The DA doing community service as perps walk around the city free on no bail.


8 posted on 07/20/2025 7:29:26 AM PDT by Kudsman (I am Coal baby! Burning for you. )
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To: BenLurkin

BTt


9 posted on 07/20/2025 7:59:18 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: BenLurkin

Just wait until mandami becomes mayor.


10 posted on 07/20/2025 8:05:19 AM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: BenLurkin

I can’t imagine the paint would be good for the trees.


11 posted on 07/20/2025 8:18:12 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: BenLurkin
Every bit as good an artist as a D.A.


12 posted on 07/20/2025 9:06:07 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: The Free Engineer
That's a very sensible and time proven suggestion!

👍

13 posted on 07/20/2025 9:07:25 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: BenLurkin

Drug Policy Alliance’s “harm reduction kits” are wrong on so many levels.


14 posted on 07/20/2025 9:17:44 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

bttt


15 posted on 07/20/2025 9:21:35 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

Bragg’s paintings suggest he graduated from The Hank Johnson School of the Arts.


16 posted on 07/20/2025 9:44:15 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle
...he graduated from The Hank Johnson School of the Arts.

HA!

17 posted on 07/20/2025 12:20:18 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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