D.C. Attackers Go Free, Showing Limits of Trump Crime Crackdown

[rangerrebew]

D.C. Attackers Go Free, Showing Limits of Trump Crime Crackdown   
By Byron York
Wednesday, October 22 2025

In the big picture, the case shows that it is a good thing that Trump decided to highlight the issue of crime. It eats away at quality of life in cities around the country. It has led to a ridiculous criminal-processing system, like in the district, that essentially helps direct a steady flow of new offenders into society.
   
District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Kendra Briggs was quite understanding with the 15-year-old who had pepper-sprayed a man while a friend pummeled him, and while others in her group tried to steal his car. The young perpetrator has had a difficult life, Briggs noted. "I know you are not unfamiliar to trauma," the judge said. "I don't disagree that the trauma you've already suffered in life is kind of how you ended up on U Street that day."

A picture of the victim, sitting on the ground, shirtless, bloody, ribs broken, had gone viral on the internet. The reason for that was because he was Edward Coristine, a young Trump administration staffer who had received attention for his work on the DOGE project. President Donald Trump himself posted the photo. "Crime in Washington, DC is totally out of control," Trump wrote. "Local 'youths' and gang members, some only 14, 15, and 16 years old, are randomly attacking, mugging, maiming, and shooting innocent citizens, at the same time knowing that they will almost immediately be released." The Coristine attack was one of the reasons Trump began the ongoing crime crackdown in Washington.

A Metropolitan Police report of the attack noted that "ten juveniles" surrounded Coristine's car. A woman who was with Coristine managed to get inside the car and lock the doors, while Coristine stayed outside to try to fend off the attackers. When police noticed what was happening, they jumped out of their own cars to approach, and the attackers scattered. Officers were able to catch two of them – the 15 year-old girl, who did the pepper spraying, and a 15-year-old boy, who did the beating.

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[rangerrebew]

With discipline like this, why do I feel the lives of these poor saints-to-be will never be long enough to have gray hair?

[Free Vulcan]

I am tired of these judges who aren't licensed psychiatrists yet think they can substitute psychoanalysis for the law.

[DefiantMassRINO]

If this is what she's doing at age 15, the frequency and the severity of her crimes are only going to increase.

Sending juvenile offenders back to the environments that created them is not going to fix anything.  Where are the adults in her life?

This is the type of criminal coddling Mike Dukakis would do.

[Smokin Joe]

The weak link is in the courts, which are infused with leftist judges who let offenders off easy. If you can do the crime, you can do the time. Maybe not in gen pop, but in a facility that is punishment enough to provide the deterrent that is absent.

Aside from that, open season on carjackers and violent criminals.