Antifa-Friendly DA's Conspire to Let Antifa Thugs Off With No Charges, But Judges Refuse and Order Them to Prepare for Trial

Honestly, I've never heard of a judge telling a prosecutor "You have to prosecute this."

This is what it's come to -- District Attorneys are now essentially Antifa themselves, and judges have to overrule their decisions that lily-white upper middle class Antifa thugs shouldn't have their records so much as blemished.

Activists hoping to be let off with a slap on the wrist after being arrested for disrupting last weekend's Straight Pride Parade have run into resistance from Boston judges.

Two Boston Municipal Court judges refused to throw out the charges against the 18 defendants who appeared Tuesday in court, frustrating defense attorneys and prosecutors who sought to have minor charges dismissed, as reported by local news outlets.

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Boston police arrested 36 people Saturday on charges ranging from disorderly conduct to assault and battery on a police officer after more than 1,000 counter-protesters, including bands of antifa activists, descended on the Straight Pride Parade, which drew an estimated 200 participants.

In a separate courtroom, Judge Richard Sinnott turned down motions by prosecutors to have low-level charges dismissed against defendants with no criminal record in exchange for community service.

The decision drew the ire of Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins, who accused him of punishing protesters for exercising their First Amendment rights.

Beating peaceable civilians is now "exercising First Amendment rights"?

You better watch yourself, honey-bunch-- because I just might start to believe you.

The "protesters" were also told "Stay out of Boston" until their pre-trial hearing.

Of course, the little sissies whined about this.

Three of the 18 anti-Straight Pride Parade protesters being arraigned Tuesday were ordered to "stay out of Boston" by a judge who said he wouldn’t even allow one of them to visit relatives in Jamaica Plain.

All three were accused of assault and battery on police at Saturday’s downtown parade, with two of them also arraigned in Boston Municipal Court on disorderly and resisting arrest charges. Others also arraigned Tuesday were told to stay out of downtown. A total of 36 were arrested and must report to court this week.

Judge Thomas Horgan said the three risked being put in jail for 90 days if they didn't follow his instructions. "Stay out of Boston," Horgan repeated when the attorney for one of the men asked that his client only be forbidden from downtown Boston so he could visit relatives in Jamaica Plain.

"They're going to have to go visit him, then," Horgan said.

By the way: You may be wondering, is Rachel Rollins one of the DA's leftwing Blofeld George Soros bankrolled?

It's unclear to me -- I can't find an article that says definitively that she was bankrolled by Soros.

But there are a ton of articles which specifically mention her when talking about DA's who were bankrolled by Soros:

Others are proposing more aggressive measures. Rachael Rollins in Boston, who has no Republican challenger in November, released a list of low-level crimes, such as disturbing the peace, that she would decline to prosecute altogether.

The push to overhaul prosecutors' offices was pioneered by the billionaire George Soros, who in recent years has backed more than 20 candidates, including Larry Krasner in Philadelphia, vowing to upend the way prosecutors have traditionally approached their jobs.

The Washington Post joins the New York Times in linking her to Soros' effort to create a communist bloc of district attorneys:

"I believe there are certain things we're just going to reject,” Rollins said in an interview before the primary. “I think there are certain charges that I don't want to prosecute any longer. Those are overwhelmingly the charges that fall on the mentally ill and those with substance abuse disorder."

Rollins, who spent just $230,000 on her campaign, is the latest in a string of reform-minded candidates who will be district attorneys in deep-blue cities — places that, for years, elected Democrats who ran on “law and order” platforms. The effort to elect them, which began before the 2016 election but has accelerated, has succeeded in Chicago, Philadelphia and St. Louis and failed in some other blue cities. But it's created a blueprint for electing reformist prosecutors and for shaping their agendas.

The first victory in the campaign came in early 2016, when George Soros plunked $300,000 into a PAC created to elect Kim Foxx as the state's attorney of Cook County, Ill. Foxx won the Democratic primary, tantamount to election in the deep-blue county, proving that the investments in races that sometimes attracted little money or attention could work.

In 2017, a larger coalition came together behind Larry Krasner, a defense attorney running in Philadelphia after suing the city's police force 75 times. He won the Democratic primary, then the general election, despite being opposed by the city's police union and the Philadelphia Inquirer.

I'm awaiting word from the Bulwark about whether it's still "antisemitic" to note that George Soros is a multibillionare socialist with an agenda of subverting our nation.

posted by Ace of Spades at 01:16 PM

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