Posted on 06/20/2021 8:37:07 AM PDT by karpov
Hundreds of people arrested for looting and rioting across the Big Apple last year in the wake of George Floyd’s police-involved death have had their charges dropped, according to an analysis of NYPD data — figures ripped as “disgusting” by local business owners.
In the Bronx — which saw fires in the street and mass looting last June — more than 60 percent have had charges dropped, according to the investigation by NBC New York.
Along with 73 out of the 118 arrested getting charges completely dropped, another 19 were convicted on lesser counts like trespassing, which carries no jail time, the report said.
Some 18 cases are still open, with the station not accounting for the other 8 arrests.
In Manhattan — where looters ran rampant across Soho and midtown, even invading Macy’s — some 222 of those arrested had their cases completely dropped, while 73 got lesser counts.
Of the 485 arrested at the time in the borough, just 128 cases remain open, with another 40 involving juveniles and cases sent to family court, the outlet said.
“Those numbers, to be honest with you, is disgusting,” Jessica Betancourt, who owns a Bronx eyeglass store that was looted and is vice president of a local merchants association, told NBC.
“I was in total shock that everything is being brushed off to the side,” she said.
“They could do it again because they know they won’t get the right punishment,” she said of the looters and rioters who once again left the Bronx burning.
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Not surprised.
Well yeah. The insurrectionists from 1/6 make the brits burning the capital in 1815 look like amateurs.
Well of course. They were doing the dirty work of the Democrat party.
Prosecute Americans, encourage communists. That’s their MO. This isn’t going to stop by asking, “Pretty, please.”
They’re Democrats doing their plantation-owner’s bidding.
Why would they be prosecuted?
If you want more of something, encourage it.
Everything the media and congressional propagandists claim is going to happen if they don’t stomp all over the dissenters on the Right, has already started on the Left with BLM and Antifa destroying sections of American cities at will.
As Maxine said about BLM riots much earlier, this is not a protest, this is an insurrection. They even had signs about overthrowing the government (including We Say No to Biden).
You get what you vote for, Chump.
NYC DA’s just acting under the Celine Dion guidelines.
They will, of course, continue to pursue with great diligence contrived phony criminal charges against Trump.
Rioters? More like trespassers.
Which is what I heard most got charged for that are still being held for 6 months with solitary confident.
Keep in mind a trespassing charge is a misdemeanor. It is usually a small fine.
Oh and the 1 guy that entered the House or Senate floor with a U.S. Flag that has an Arrow at the top of the flag poll. Yeah he was charged with having a deadly weapon in congress, and facing 25 years to life in prison. This is even though he just carried in a flag, and never used it as a weapon against anyone.
Many were waved in by police, making them not even trespassers.
The biggest mistake the Capital protestors made was thinking that they had the same rights as BLM and Antifa. Should have realized that America doesn’t have any legitimate legal system and rules are only applied when it’s convenient.
“Many were waved in by police, ——”
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Are there videos of that?
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Just recently, yes.
Question: why have hundreds of hours of video taken from many cameras in and around the Capitol on Jan 6 not only not been released to the general public, but not even to Republican members of Congress?
Under Giuliani as NYC Mayor, bad guys paid the consequences... every time.
Thanks.
Can’t answer your question but to say I’m fed up would be a gross understatement.
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