Democrats are paying a terrible price for jumping into bed with Black Lives Matter extremists
Opinion by Paul du Quenoy • 18h
It’s little more than a month since the once and future US president Donald Trump defied all odds and trounced the Democratic Party. American voters, outraged by woke cultural policies, delivered the Republicans the presidency, voted out the Democratic majority in the Senate, and confirmed the Republican hold on the House of Representatives. Democrats lost ground in almost every jurisdiction and demographic category.
One might expect forlorn Democrats to be reflecting carefully on their loss and rationally assessing the reasons for it. In Manhattan, however, nothing could be further from the case.
Their failed criminal justice policies went on trial alongside Daniel Penny, a US Marine Corps veteran who in May 2023 restrained Jordan Neely, a violent repeat offender who was on drugs and, according to witnesses, made passengers on the New York City subway fear for their lives. The confrontation resulted in Neely’s death, for which Penny was criminally charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide. Last week, the first charge was dismissed. On Monday, a Manhattan jury acquitted Penny of the second charge.
Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan county district attorney whose office brought the charges against Penny, last year downgraded more than half of felony offences in his jurisdiction to misdemeanours. He also elevated misdemeanour business recordkeeping charges against Donald Trump to felonies on the basis of a dubious legal theory. That case is now practically moribund. Penny’s prosecution went forward, it is widely believed, because he is white and Neely was black.
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