New York City Drops Majority of Rioting and Looting Cases from 2020
New York | June 22, 2021
Several borough District Attorneys in the city of New York have controversially decided to drop the majority of cases against rioters and looters who were arrested over the course of the last year, as reported by Breitbart.
The report first came from NBC New York, which says that “data reviewed by the NBC New York I-Team shows 118 arrests were made in the Bronx during the worst of the looting in early June.” Of those 118 cases, the Bronx DA has dismissed 73 cases, leaving only 45. There are still 18 cases open, and there have been just 19 convictions so far.
“In Manhattan,” the report continues, “the NYPD data shows there were 485 arrests. Of those cases, 222 were later dropped and 73 seeing convictions…another 40 cases involved juveniles and were sent to family court; 128 cases remain open.”
Anonymous sources claimed that one motivation for the dropping of cases was that the District Attorneys’ offices simply could not handle the overwhelming number of cases, with a backlog building up quickly due to the courts being shut down as a result of the coronavirus pandemic lockdowns. When asked about this reasoning, former NYPD Chief of Patrol Wilbur Chapman scoffed at the suggestion that it was too much work, quipping that “if they are so overworked that they can’t handle the mission that they’re hired for, then maybe they should find another line of work.”…
(Excerpts from the Tennessee Star)