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Left-wing progressive Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg decided to drop all charges against thirty-one of the forty-six pro-Hamas agitators who were arrested after breaking into and seizing Hamilton Hall at Columbia University’s campus on April 30th. Fourteen of the remaining agitators still facing charges were offered “Adjournments in Contemplation of Dismissal,” which would have resulted in dismissal of their cases if they did not engage in additional criminal conduct during the next six months. They refused the offer. The fifteenth defendant is James Carlson, a forty-year-old privileged scion of a wealthy family who is considered a “possible leader” of the Columbia University rioters who broke into Hamilton Hall and barricaded themselves inside. He has been charged with criminal trespassing, on top of additional charges for other crimes he allegedly committed.
The thirty-one rioters who invaded Hamilton Hall and got off scot-free were initially charged with trespassing in the third degree, which is a misdemeanor. They would have received no jail time in any event with let-the criminals-go District Attorney Bragg still in office. But even a slap on the wrist for the rioters was too much for Bragg to consider.
One of DA Bragg’s prosecutors cited a lack of evidence as justification for the decision to drop the charges against the thirty-one pro-Hamas rioters. He claimed there was no proof sufficient to tie each specific hooligan who was arrested to illegally taking part in the invasion of Hamilton Hall and in the destruction of property or injury of anyone during the course of the building’s seizure and occupation. The prosecutor blamed the problem in part on the absence of security-camera video, thus rewarding the rioters who had disabled or covered the cameras in the first place while wearing masks to hide their identities.
Judge Kevin McGrath went along with the charade by announcing in court that “All these matters are dismissed and sealed in the interest of justice.”
Judge McGrath has it backwards. Dismissing even the mildest of charges against the pro-Hamas thugs is a gross miscarriage of justice. But what else can we expect from DA Bragg’s office, backed up by cooperative criminal judges?
When serious crimes that harm the public are involved, Bragg just shrugs his shoulders. He either downgrades them to misdemeanors or, as in the case of thirty-one of the pro-Hamas agitators who broke into Hamilton Hall, drops the charges altogether.
The thugs whom DA Bragg let off the hook should have been charged with committing felonies and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. But Mr. Bragg was too busy instead going after Donald Trump with thirty-four jerry-rigged felony charges. Bragg brought back to life a time-barred misdemeanor of falsifying internal business records by upgrading it to a felony involving alleged interference with a federal election. With the help of a highly biased judge, prosecutors working for the Trump-hating district attorney convinced a jury to convict Mr. Trump, even though the public was not harmed by the alleged falsification of any internal Trump business records.
District Attorney Bragg claimed after the verdict against Mr. Trump was announced that nobody is above the law. But he has applied a double standard. He twisted the law just to get Trump, as he had promised to do during his campaign. However, Bragg refused to do the right thing by prosecuting all the pro-Hamas agitators who broke into Hamilton Hall and barricaded themselves inside.
In order to understand what Bragg could have charged all these pro-Hamas agitators with but didn’t, it is necessary to get into the weeds a bit on the applicable law.
In New York, burglary in the third degree is a Class D felony if it involves entering or remaining unlawfully in a building with the intent to commit a crime. Burglary in the second degree becomes a Class C felony when it causes physical injury to any person who is not a participant in the crime.
A person is guilty of committing a criminal mischief felony when with intent to damage another person’s property, with no right to do so, that individual damages another person’s property in an amount exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars.
The pro-Hamas agitators who broke into Hamilton Hall and barricaded themselves inside the building did so with the intent to cause extensive property damage in the process – i.e., a criminal mischief felony that rises to the level of a burglary felony as well. This was not simply a spontaneous, spur of the moment demonstration. The break-in was highly organized, involving extensive planning and coordination.
Photos shared exclusively with Gothamist reveal the intruders’ “hand-drawn schematics mapping out entire floors of the building, locations of supplies, doors they wanted to barricade, and the locations of water fountains and fire extinguishers.” There was also a “task list.”
Moreover, the pro-Hamas invaders unlawfully prevented at least one staff member from exiting the building before finally letting him go. He filed a university accident report “showing a raw wound on his knuckles and stating he had bruises on his neck,” according to the New York Times article describing the incident. “It also stated that he had been ‘assaulted and battered, and wrongfully imprisoned.’” This would constitute an even more serious Class C felony.
By putting all these thugs’ criminal acts together in one neat package, District Attorney Bragg would have had substantial grounds to charge them with the felonies of burglary and criminal mischief. And to put the bow on the package, Bragg could have brought conspiracy charges against all those involved in breaking into and occupying Hamilton Hall, whether their individual identities were concealed or not.
A person is guilty of conspiracy in New York “when, with intent that conduct constituting a crime be performed,” that individual “agrees with one or more persons to engage in or cause the performance of such conduct.” An overt act must be “alleged and proved to have been committed by one of the conspirators in furtherance of the conspiracy.”
Breaking into, entering, and occupying Hamilton Hall caused extensive property damage. Each of the intruders, by taking part, must have known that such property damage would occur and thereby demonstrated the intent that conduct constituting criminal trespass, criminal mischief, and burglary would be performed. The planning and coordination of the break-in and the barricading inside Hamilton Hall demonstrate that the intruders agreed to collectively engage in such conduct. And there is plenty of evidence of overt acts committed in furtherance of the conspiracy, including by the possible leader of the break-in and occupation, James Carlson.
There is no excuse for District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s decision to decline prosecuting the thirty-one pro-Hamas rioters who invaded Hamilton Hall on any charges whatsoever. All the rioters arrested for taking part in this criminal intrusion should stand trial for conspiracy to commit criminal trespass, criminal mischief, and burglary. But DA Bragg will not do so because his priority is to punish Donald Trump, not to enforce the law fairly and even-handedly.
Alvin Bragg has gotten away for too long with politicizing his office and failing to perform his duty to protect the people of Manhattan from violent crime. Governor Kathy Hochul should have already used her power to remove Bragg from office, but she is too afraid of the backlash from the Democratic Party’s left-wing progressive base to do so.
Bragg is a walking turd with all the stink and flys.
By stinking up the joint, Bragg proves that nobody’s above the law of turds.
I vote to have Braggs American Citizenship revoked do I have any others in favor?
I do if it involves revoking it with a 12 gauge.
Bragg is exercising raw political power by rewarding political allies, and punishing his political enemies.
This is a war and republicans have refused to engage.
THE EXCUSE USED FOR NO ARRESTS: “They wore masks and couldn’t identify them!”
WHAT? DUH! DUH! Let me help: “A person in a red mask, black Che t-shirt, and spray-painted Abe Lincoln’s monument. We couldn’t identify the person due to that mask!” DUH DUH DUH! Can’t see the face but can identify what they are wearing, MAKE AN ARREST!!!!!!!!!!
ANTIFA totally covered, destroying and attacking, “Can’t identify them!” DUH! TACKLE THEM then take the mask off…. DUH!
Here at UNM, extensive damage was done to the Student Union when a MOB was trying to break into a speech by TOMI LAHREN. I was inside and she had to end the speech after ten minutes due to massive pounding on the walls, RESULTED IN HOLES, ONE HUGE, and then the alarm going off. The UNM Police told me that protesters wouldn’t be allowed in the building, the doors were locked, only a minute into her speech, ACCORDING TO YOUTUBE VIDEOS THE MOB PROUDLY POSTED, they came in through a side door. NOW POLICE were being pushed to get to the door. One female PD was being pushed as she blocked the door. I CALLED 911 THREE TIMES and I was very angry and scared for the students who were huddled together CRYING in a panic!
OKAY…. I filed a police report and filed to get all other police reports. NONE WERE FILED including by the Union director. NONE BY UNM PD??? I went to the Union director and asked why she hadn’t filed a police report “for damage to UNM property.” She said, “WE TOOK CARE OF IT INTERNALLY!” (Years earlier, extensive damage to outside tables during a mob protest against Milo Yiannopoulos. No police reports? ABQ ANTIFA appeared with its leader Joel Marcos Gallegos who also heads ANSWER, The Party for Socialism and Liberation, and the Revolutionary Communist Party. On his FB page, “Marxist-Leninist!” He organized Hamas protests and six of his members were arrested by State Police when they took over the Student Union, EXTENSIVE DAMAGE…. NO REPORTS FILED BY UNION DIRECTOR who had to close the building for repairs! I waited for reports, still none!!!!!! THEY GET AWAY WITH IT!)
It is simply typical of the America we live in today. So much for equal protection of law.
Not a double standard. Its a political statement.
WE’RE IN POWER AND YOU’RE NOT!
We don’t prosecute political allies.
We DO persecute those who might be political opponents, replete with juries who know how to vote guilty.
Those insidious and sinister power elite operating “behind the curtains” with all their vicious malice have in it for Donald Trump.
Therefore,, they use one of stooges. Alvin Brag, to take “out of the political picture Mr. Trump, because he is a strong bulwark against those schemes for the future of United States.
Furthermore, two modern and closely connected un-American subversive movements of the twenty –first century in the United States are the Leftist/Islamic alliance and the Red /Green alliance.
The people who make up both of those entities do, especially those Muslims members of it, strongly detest Donald Trump because of the many grand and great accomplishments of President Trump his official US government recognition of Jerusalem as the Capital City of the Jewish State of Israel. Later President Trump recognized the Golan Heights as, rightly belonging to Israel.
Likewise, President Trump had sanction imposed on that aggressive hostile vicious anti- America and anti- Israel tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran, which had the official title of “The Islamic Republic of Iran.”
Furthermore, President Trump in Office and greatly supported strong thick tall US /Mexican borders that are patrolled by armed US troops , National Guard and police who may be allows to use their firearms if they deem it necessary.
For porous US borders are seen as in open invitation by dangerous jihadists of murderous Islamic terror organizations as Al Qaeda , ISIS and also Hamas and Hezbollah and even the Taliban.
The above “reasons” are why those of the leftist/Islamic and the Red/Green alliance are after Donald Trump with their malice and hate- filled passion and want , by any means to take him down and keep him down.
That horrible, unethical DA ,Alvin Bragg is maliciously and unjustly going after Donald Trump not really “legal prosecution” but political persecution.
Bragg out of his way to get a vicious violent thug , who even had a long history of committing violent crimes, freed after he entered a store and brutally attacked the shop owner . Bragg even went further , in his despicable mentally , he attempted to get the store own charged with assault for only defending himself after being first attacked by the horrible hooligan.
The former US President, James Monroe, had it right , when he said ” The right of self- defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and individuals.”
Alvin Bragg is an affront and disgrace the dignity of the Office of the District Attorney.
Bragg should be disbarred from the Office of the DA for violations of ethics and corruption charges as well as for deliberate abuse and misuse of the DA Office and gross incompetence.
Bragg should be RICO and jailed for the rest of his miserable life, because what he has done is definitely racketeering (keeping the cash cow running for corrupt Dem politicians) and corrupt.
Remember that Bragg is a protege of a Nazi collaborator, Soros. As Daniel Greenfield wrote here when Trump was president, as a teenager in Budapest in 1944, Soros, himself a Jew, identified other Jews for the Nazis to deport to the Auschwitz gas chambers. When he immigrated here in the 1950s he would have filled out a form inquiring into his conduct during the war. Had he answered honestly he would have been barred from the USA. Having lied, he still is eligible for deportation under the Holtzman amendment. Pres Trump must use this in the debate; I have written to Alina Hanna and Representative Stefanik. Please, David Horowitz, take this up with the campaign. Trump is being persecuted by Biden in league with a Nazi collaborator. Thus this fiend is extending his evil hand into the election.
No one in the NY bar has had the integrity to denounce the corrupt NY system: bypassing the standard practice of randomly assigning judges to cases and instead assigning this acting Justice Merchan to several Trump cases, obviously because they knew he is a rabidly partisan, dishonest judge. The NY system is totally corrupt and dishonest.
Those insidious and sinister power elite operating “behind the curtains” with all their vicious malice have in it for Donald Trump.
Therefore,, they use one of stooges. Alvin Brag, to take “out of the political picture Mr. Trump, because he is a strong bulwark against those schemes for the future of United States.
Furthermore, two modern and closely connected un-American subversive movements of the twenty –first century in the United States are the Leftist/Islamic alliance and the Red /Green alliance.
The people who make up both of those entities do, especially those Muslims members of it, strongly detest Donald Trump because of the many grand and great accomplishments of President Trump his official US government recognition of Jerusalem as the Capital City of the Jewish State of Israel. Later President Trump recognized the Golan Heights as, rightly belonging to Israel.
Likewise, President Trump had sanction imposed on that aggressive hostile vicious anti- America and anti- Israel tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran, which had the official title of “The Islamic Republic of Iran.”
That corrupt and unethical Distract Attorney Alvin Bragg even accepts “gifts” bribes from that subversive villain ,George Soros, to engage in the political Persecution against Donald Trump.
To put this is another way Bragg , after a private payoff from Soros , is gladly and viciously acting out not in Legal prosecution against Mr. Trump and in political persecution against him.
About such corrupt activities, the Bible reads ” The wicked accept bribes in secret to pervert the course of justice.”
Proverbs 17:23. [N. I. V.]
An American Member of HAMAS.
Racist and Anti-Semite Alvin FATBURGER Bragg needs to be weighed down – maybe as he’s already fat enough – and dumped into the Hudson River.
Only problem is, the fish will get indigestion.
Their holding of the building workers was kidnapping. Now THAT’S a felony for you. Bragg’s excuse for dropping the prosecutions is as lame as FBI Director What’s claim that the FBI wasn’t investigating the arson and vandalism attacks on pregnancy care centers because they took place at night.
People I would like to see in Orange Jumpsuits with Numbers on then Obama, Clinton(Bill)Bragg, Smith, Soros, Schwabe and Al Gore and why break up fathers and Sons Hunter Biden and Alex Soros
You can add pretty much every senior Dem politician to that list, Pelosi, Schumer, and just keep on going.