Manhattan D.A. Declines To Prosecute Some Demonstrators Who Violate Curfew

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Manhattan's district attorney will not prosecute protesters arrested for breaking the city's curfew during the ongoing demonstrations against police brutality and the killing of George Floyd.

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But the new plan is"designed to minimize unnecessary interactions with the criminal justice system, reduce racial disparities and collateral consequences in low-level offense prosecutions." He added the nation is at a crossroads following Floyd's death at the hands of law enforcement officers.

 

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If the police focused on the actual looters by arresting people looting and not protestors protesting it would make more sense. The DA can’t prosecute anybody arrested because nobody knows for sure who did what to whom and when.

And yet, in the meanwhile they are being corraled into COVID risk camps and cells, and it's likely hundreds will die simply for expressing their 1st Amendment rights. The police know this. THIS IS THEIR PLAN.

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Phew, great. At first I thought law breakers might be dealt this properly.

BellBikeHelmets Please address why these violent thugs are sporting your gear for citizen abuse/murder. Do you support this?

What about those guys? Are they arrested ? Or simply don't pursue them.

weird that you arrested them then

Then let them people go!!!!!

Lemme know when the start to prosecute the police that are brutalizing the protestors.

We are on our way to a lawless society! Look to what has been happening! Law enforcement gives an order now days and it is ignored. Do they escalate it or just walk away and give up?

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Prosecute ones that committed criminal acts!

No one wants to put inciting a riot on childrens' records.

Now bring back habeas corpus. Also fire and prosecute NYPD officers that are abusing their power to like oh I don't know RUN PEOPLE OVER WITH THEIR CARS.

Nor will this far left loon prosecute them for burning down and looting businesses.

So what is the point of the law?

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