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Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg cuts career criminal a sweetheart deal while busy prosecuting Trump
The New York Post ^ | 04/04/2023 | Joe Marino and Jorge Fitz-Gibbons

Posted on 04/05/2023 8:56:47 AM PDT by thegagline

Soft-on-crime Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is blowing tax dollars on prosecuting Donald Trump — while giving career criminals a real break.

Rodney Johnson, 53, who has nearly 90 busts on his rap sheet and two state prison stints under his belt, saw his felony robbery charges knocked down to slap-on-the-wrist misdemeanors by Bragg’s office last week, law enforcement sources told The Post Tuesday.

“This guy has been breaking the law for 35 years,” one law enforcement source said.

“He’s been a one-man robbery spree preying on low-wage workers, then when the cops catch the guy, Bragg’s office downgrades the felon charges,” the sources said.

“All the while [Bragg] chases an indictment of the former president for paying a porn star. Priorities.”

But the criminal was handed just $1 bail on the previous charges, records show. It wasn’t clear on Tuesday whether the suspect had made bail. *** A major principle of our system is the more crimes you commit, the worse the punishment,” said defense attorney Mike Discioarro, a former Bronx prosecutor. “How is this guy getting a deal?***

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: black; crime; racism
The thug is black. Trump is white. Bragg is a racist.

The face of systemic racism:


1 posted on 04/05/2023 8:56:47 AM PDT by thegagline
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To: thegagline

BTTT


2 posted on 04/05/2023 8:59:44 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: thegagline

He cut’s deals for Obama’s standing army.


3 posted on 04/05/2023 9:00:58 AM PDT by fwdude (Society has been fully polarized now, and you have to decide on which pole you want to be found.)
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To: thegagline
I wonder why Alvin Bragg would cut a sweetheart deal with Rodney Johnson?


4 posted on 04/05/2023 9:02:12 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Bonhoeffer: “Silence in the face of evil is evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”)
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To: thegagline

what happened to the three strikes laws?


5 posted on 04/05/2023 9:32:50 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: TexasFreeper2009
what happened to the three strikes laws?

Didn’t you get the memo? Numbers are racist.

6 posted on 04/05/2023 9:45:42 AM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater 2024)
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To: thegagline

And corruption


7 posted on 04/05/2023 9:49:10 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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What color is Rodney Johnson?

If he’s not orange, it’s cool, right????


8 posted on 04/05/2023 9:57:35 AM PDT by jdsteel (PA voters elected a stroke victim and a dead guy. Not a joke. )
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To: jdsteel

But Alvin said just yesterday that no one is above the law.


9 posted on 04/05/2023 10:42:25 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: nopardons

What can you expect from a low IQ Affirmative Action Haarvard Law Graduate who is bankrolled by a Communist?


10 posted on 04/05/2023 10:44:30 AM PDT by chopperk ( )
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