First Step Act is Trumps major accomplishment for the African American community, so they say.
Horowitz: Man released by First Step Act rearrested for meth trafficking
Daniel Horowitz · March 9, 2020
Trump’s often-spoken instincts on punishing drug traffickers were correct. Therefore, he might want to think twice before his son-in-law or Kim Kardashian convince him to stand at a podium with drug traffickers released early from prison like Obama did. Now, one of those who spoke at a jailbreak press conference with him has been rearrested for drug trafficking after obtaining early release under the First Step Act.
On April 1, 2009, Trump held a summit with prisoners released under the First Step Act to celebrate passage of the bill. One of those convicts celebrated at the podium was Troy Powell, whom Trump referred to as a great electrician and even joked about using him one day for work in the White House. He celebrated the fact that Powell was hired by a lumber company in North Carolina.
Trump then brought him to the lectern amid rousing applause from the crowd. Powell thanked all of the jailbreak organizations like Cut 50 that helped get the legislation passed. Choked up with emotion, Powell said that “more needs to be done†and that he left many others behind in prison. “There’s people doing 40, 50 years, for nothin’, I mean absolutely nothing,†lamented Powell. The Republican National Committee even tweeted out the video.
It was one of those heartwarming moments. The tenor of that press conference was all about the injustice to criminals, not victims, as if the federal government just randomly grabbed great people and locked them up forever, and if only we abolished prison, we’d live happily ever after.
Fast-forward roughly a year later, and Powell was arrested in North Carolina with three others and charged with meth trafficking. Thousands of Americans are dying because of people like this. And this can’t be blamed on lack of job opportunities. This is a man who literally has the president’s ear and was given a job, but he was allegedly back to his old ways almost immediately.
https://www.conservativereview.com/news/horowitz-man-released-first-step-act-rearrested-meth-trafficking/In my eyes drug related charges should hold the highest and stiffest prison penalties. Its ruining our country. It kills our sons and daughters and African American families suffer probably more do to where they live. Reducing people's sentences is not winning. It is rewarding crime. And many of these people are tied to big Cartel crime.
Gang member released under First Step Act wanted for murder
Daniel Horowitz · October 8, 2019
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In February, when the first wave of prisoners were released, Joel Francisco was among them. Who is Joel Francisco? According to Cmdr. Thomas Verdi, deputy chief of the Providence Police Department, quoted in the Providence Journal, he is a “cold, evil, violent person.â€
“Some criminals deserve to spend their lives incarcerated,†Verdi said. “Joel is one.â€
https://www.conservativereview.com/news/gang-member-released-first-step-act-wanted-murder/He Committed a $300 Million Fraud, but Left Prison Under Trump’s Justice Overhaul
Hassan Nemazee, who once owned a $17.75 million Park Avenue duplex, had been serving a 12-year sentence. He benefited from a criminal justice bill signed by President Trump.
Three weeks ago, a 69-year-old man convicted of bank fraud quietly left a federal prison camp in Cumberland, Md., and moved into a friend’s one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan. He was one of the early inmates to benefit from a criminal justice bill signed into law by President Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/13/nyregion/hassan-nemazee-trump.htmlAnd this administration has been releasing prisoners under COVID too. I don't know about you, but I don't call that winning. More race baiting, and lies. Releasing drug dealers does not help the African American community. It doesn't help any of us. It is only playing a hand for votes.
This is liberalism, not Conservatism. Isn't helping anyone. It is based on race. If you want to end racism believe in everyone is equal. But just because a person is convicted of a crime doesn't mean its racism that needs to be righted.
Crime really does pay under this administration.
