It was a year ago that mobs of looters roamed the streets of New York City following the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. From the month of May to June mobs would walk the streets of New York City smashing and looting storefronts, with videos of the incident going viral.
Despite the lawlessness, the NYPD – who were vastly outnumbered during these unexpected events – made hundreds of arrests, with most taking place in Manhattan and the Bronx. Data reviewed by NBC New York showed that at one point, up to 118 arrests were made in the Bronx during the worst of the looting in early June.
Despite the heroic actions by the police, many, if not all of these criminals are still roaming the streets – despite their arrests at the time. This is due to the fact that since then, the NYPD says the Bronx DA and the courts have dismissed most of those cases – 73 in all. Eighteen cases remain open and there have been 19 convictions for mostly lesser counts like trespassing, counts which carry no jail time.
In Manhattan, the NYPD data shows there were 485 arrests. Of those cases, 222 were later dropped and 73 seeing convictions for lesser counts like trespassing, which carries no jail time. Another 40 cases involved juveniles and were sent to family court; 128 cases remain open.
This lack of accountability by the DA’s office has led to outrage by victims and store owners of the looting who see the situation as criminals who are getting off scot free.
(Moshe Schwartz – @YWNReporter)
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9 Responses
Can Latisha James be audited? Can she be sued to show cause? Many businesses suffered serious losses and some perpetrators were apprehended. Why should they go scuff free?
Will they drop the fines for opening a store?
But Trump they’ll prosecute and persecute and leave no stone unturned until they catch him on some bogus charges HYPOCRYTES.
no, not welcome! stay away from NYC.
the wicked democrat powers-that-be promote lawlessness and terrorize the normals, with bdb presiding over this jungle that was nyc
The stores should be outraged but have to realize that this salacious DA is far too busy pressing bogus charges against President Donald Trump, hence has no time for any other charges.
How can their actions have been illegal (under existing New York law) , if they were done for a politically correct purpose? It’s not like they were “deplorables” protesting election results.
And yes, this should worry us, since what happens if someone supporting a politically correct cause attacks frum Jews. We have a strong reason to support “equal justice under law” rather than the Democrats’ preference for “social justice” (justice for the politically correct groups at the expense of individual rights and at the expense of groups deemed to be politically incorrect).
But the Jan 6 clowns are still in prison.
Letitia James and Cy Vance are keeping us all safe by delving into former President Trump’s personal tax return from 1978. It’s those dangerous tax returns that has all New Yorkers in anxiety attack mode. How can any citizen sleep comfortably at night, knowing that Donald Trump’s personal tax returns are roaming free?!
Wolfman: The Jan. 6 clowns are only nominally being prosecuted for rioting. They are clearly guilty of crimes against political correctness. It is a new hiddush, at least in blue jurisdictions, that use of the criminal justice system to harass enemies of politically correctness does not violate the Constitution (1st amendment in particular, though the due process clauses are also subject to reinterpretation). It will be interesting to see if the Supreme Court objects to selective prosecution of rioters based on their underlying ideology.