This reads like a story from 2020 or 2021, at the apex of woke insanity. It combines soft-on-crime madness with left-wing systemic racism, supposedly implemented to combat systemic racism. And it comes to us from one of the epicenters of the worst excesses of that recent era, where mobs burned down swaths of a major American city, including a police precinct, as Democrat politicians hesitated, equivocated, or actively supported the lawlessness -- including the woman who would go on to lose presidential election years later. Meet Minneapolis-area, Soros-backed District Attorney Mary Moriarty. Her name may ring a bell because she was recently castigated by critics for allowing a member of her ideological tribe to escape any real consequences for his politically-motivated crime spree.
Here are a few of those details, in case you missed that story:
A Minnesota state employee avoided criminal charges after vandalizing at least six Tesla vehicles, the local district attorney announced this week, prompting outrage from local leaders who spoke to Fox News Digital. The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office (HCAO) said it would seek "diversion" over charges against Minnesota Department of Human Services data analyst Dylan Bryan Adams after causing $20,000 in damages. The diversion approach "helps to ensure the individual keeps their job and can pay restitution," according HCAO. Republicans across the North Star State have condemned County Attorney Mary Moriarty's decision, as President Donald Trump's administration has identified Tesla vandalism as "domestic terrorism" and led a nationwide effort alongside the Justice Department to hold vandals accountable.
The full article is here. Moriarty decided that this repeat offender shouldn't merely avoid jail time for his crimes, but should be diverted to a program that "helps ensure" that guilty parties get to keep their jobs -- in this case, a taxpayer-funded one. If some right-winger had vandalized multiple abortion clinics, there is no chance this woman would have cut that perp any slack, but under Democrats' Rules of Law, this guy gets the favorable treatment because he's on The Team. It is, quite literally, unequal justice under the law. And the same woman is now attracting attention for her new racial scheme that is similarly designed to undermine equal justice:
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said a new policy asking her prosecutors to consider the racial identity of defendants is constitutional and a necessary corrective to address unconscious bias in a justice system that has been historically racist...The “Negotiations Policy for Cases Involving Adult Defendants” was leaked by employees within the Attorney’s Office to media outlets last week and made effective Monday. There have been immediate accusations that it is unconstitutional, primarily because it asks prosecutors to “consider the person charged as a whole person, including their racial identity.” In an interview with the Minnesota Star Tribune on Wednesday, Moriarty said she was surprised that anyone found the policy shocking.
She's stunned that anyone would object to an overtly racist, likely illegal 'law enforcement' regime:
Language about race appears in a section discussing Minnesota sentencing guidelines and when attorneys should seek upward or downward departures. It says that departures should be “based on the unique analysis of the case” including criminal history, racial identity, age and serving public safety...David Zimmer is a policy fellow at the Center of the American Experiment, a think tank focused on conservative and free-market ideas. He said the new policy is an affront to the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, which says that every citizen must be treated the same under the law. “I just think it’s stunning that a public prosecutor would put out a policy to treat defendants differently based on their race,” said Zimmer, who worked in law enforcement for three decades and retired as a captain with the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office. “Once it’s challenged [in court] it’ll get defeated. However, who is going to challenge it?”...“They’re taking the blindfold of Lady Justice off,” he said, “and looking at the defendant differently.”
Letting state employees who commit multiple politically-motivated crimes off the hook, and demanding racial discrimination play a role in the enforcement of the law. Favored identity and ideological groups are treated differently than anyone else, especially 'bad' people from disfavored identity and ideological groups. This is what these people see as "progress."
