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Charges against hundreds of NYC rioters, looters have been dropped
New York Post ^ | June 20, 2021 | Lee Brown

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.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2tieredjustice; anarchotyranny; antifa; arson; blm; freeasabird; looters; nyc; riot; rioters
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The Capitol rioters will not get such lenience.
1 posted on 06/20/2021 8:37:07 AM PDT by karpov
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To: karpov

Not surprised.


2 posted on 06/20/2021 8:38:48 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,)
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3 posted on 06/20/2021 8:38:52 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: karpov

Well yeah. The insurrectionists from 1/6 make the brits burning the capital in 1815 look like amateurs.


4 posted on 06/20/2021 8:38:57 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Well of course. They were doing the dirty work of the Democrat party.


5 posted on 06/20/2021 8:40:00 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: karpov

Prosecute Americans, encourage communists. That’s their MO. This isn’t going to stop by asking, “Pretty, please.”


6 posted on 06/20/2021 8:40:20 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: karpov

They’re Democrats doing their plantation-owner’s bidding.

Why would they be prosecuted?


7 posted on 06/20/2021 8:41:18 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Tse-tung)
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To: karpov

If you want more of something, encourage it.


8 posted on 06/20/2021 8:41:59 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: karpov

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).


9 posted on 06/20/2021 8:42:08 AM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: karpov

You get what you vote for, Chump.


10 posted on 06/20/2021 8:43:15 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: karpov

NYC DA’s just acting under the Celine Dion guidelines.


11 posted on 06/20/2021 8:43:25 AM PDT by Covenantor (We are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and fools who can not govern. " Chesterton)
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They will, of course, continue to pursue with great diligence contrived phony criminal charges against Trump.


12 posted on 06/20/2021 8:43:54 AM PDT by BluH2o
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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.


13 posted on 06/20/2021 8:45:10 AM PDT by Enlightened1 ( )
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Many were waved in by police, making them not even trespassers.


14 posted on 06/20/2021 8:46:19 AM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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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.


15 posted on 06/20/2021 8:49:38 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Assange )
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“Many were waved in by police, ——”

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Are there videos of that?

.


16 posted on 06/20/2021 8:51:05 AM PDT by Mears (.)
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I remember in Tucson "Occupy" times when several thousand park campers got ticketed. Later some liberal judge dismissed them en masse.

My brother got so mad he took his speeding ticket to the judge and demanded he get to have it dismissed just like Occupy.

\/\/ayne: "Did you expect that to work?"
\/\/ayne's brother: "No, I was just making a statement."
17 posted on 06/20/2021 8:55:17 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: Mears

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?


18 posted on 06/20/2021 8:58:56 AM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: karpov; All

Under Giuliani as NYC Mayor, bad guys paid the consequences... every time.


19 posted on 06/20/2021 9:00:18 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: coloradan

Thanks.

Can’t answer your question but to say I’m fed up would be a gross understatement.

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20 posted on 06/20/2021 9:17:47 AM PDT by Mears (.)
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