Than Htwe, a 58-Year-Old Asian American woman, was walking with her son up the stairs of a Chinatown subway station when they were violently assaulted by a violent thug. Than, who had been on her way to a Buddhist temple, had her head smashed into the ground and died. The thug responsible got a mere 1-3 years in prison which effectively amounted to time served.
This has become typical under Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg.
Bragg’s office let a man accusing of raping a teenage girl go with 30 days and probation. A week before sentencing he went on a “sex-crime spree” attacking four different women. One woman stopped his attempt to rape her by hitting him on the head with a hammer: doing the job that the DA wouldn’t.
A gang member facing four grand larceny charges was set loose by Bragg’s pro-crime people before he mugged a 14-year-old boy.
A Muslim thug who took part in a brutal assault on a Jewish man near a pro-Israel rally boasted, “If I could do it again, I would do it again.” Despite that, Bragg’s office offered him a plea deal of six months.
When Bragg took office, he released a Day One memo which told prosecutors not to pursue prison sentences for many crimes including armed robberies and not to ask for life sentences.
As a result of his pro-crime guidelines, more than half of felony cases were downgraded to misdemeanors. Felony convictions fell from 68% to 51%, misdemeanor convictions from 53% to 29% and very few of those ever saw prison. Bragg’s pro-crime prosecutorial pipeline turned felonies into misdemeanors and then the offenders never served a day in prison.
Murders rose 10%, aggravated assaults were up 11% and robberies shot up 25%
Bragg justified his pro-crime policies by arguing that he was trying to use resources more efficiently. He claimed that his Day One memo refusing to prosecute many crimes was about freeing up “prosecutorial resources”. When Bragg’s office dropped most of the charges against a serial shoplifter, they claimed it would have been a “waste of resources” to go forward.
What was Bragg really focusing on?
In 2022, even as violent crimes shot up and the Manhattan DA’s office claimed that it wasn’t prosecuting criminals because it was shorthanded, it hired Matthew Colangelo, a former Biden DOJ appointee and Sotomayor clerk who had headed over to the New York State Attorney General’s office to go after Trump. Colangelo’s current salary isn’t listed, but he was earning $203,000 at the federal level and isn’t likely to have taken a pay cut to work for Bragg.
“Matthew Colangelo brings a wealth of economic justice experience combined with complex white-collar investigations, and he has the sound judgment and integrity needed to pursue justice against powerful people,” Bragg bragged. It was no secret whom Bragg had in mind.
While Bragg hired a legal hit man to go after Trump, crime victims were mourning as their attackers were cut loose because the Manhattan DA’s office claimed not to have the resources.
The investigation of Trump had been led by Susan Hoffinger, the head of the Manhattan DA’s office of investigations, at a salary of $208,600, along with a team of three others. The full cost of the pursuit of Trump and his associates on petty charges likely run well into the millions.
The Mueller investigation’s obscene $32 million price tag was bad enough, but at the federal level, millions and even billions come out of the petty cash drawer. DA Alvin Bragg however told crime victims that he had to free criminals because his office didn’t have enough resources.
Bragg didn’t have enough resources to help crime victims, but plenty to go after Trump.
How many people were killed, how many were robbed, beaten and raped because Bragg made targeting Trump into his priority? Most crimes are committed by career criminals who go in and out of the system until they’re finally prosecuted and locked up for good. Taking one criminal out of circulation for even a few years can save lives. The failure to prosecute however costs lives.
An extra 50 people were killed in Manhattan on Bragg’s watch. How many of those people really had to die?
An extra 159 women were raped.
An extra 3,524 people were robbed.
An extra 4,197 people were assaulted.
How much of that could have been prevented if Bragg had focused his “prosecutorial resources” on pursuing criminals, instead of giving perps a pass, while focusing on political crimes?
Bragg’s war against former President Trump is fully consistent with his attitude.
When Jose Alba, a bodega store worker, was assaulted and defended his life by stabbing the thug, Bragg hit him with the highest possible murder charges and $250,000 bail. Those charges were later dropped. A similar case involving fishmarket workers also played out more recently.
Soros DAs consider criminals to be victims and those who defend themselves to be criminals.
It would be a mistake to imagine that Bragg, like Soros DAs around the country, is reluctant to use the powers of his office. Despite all the chatter about “restorative justice” and “diversion programs”, they gleefully unleash ruthless force against their political opponents. That’s why St Louis’ Kim Gardner came after Mark and Patricia McCloskey who displayed firearms in order to deter an invasion by members of a BLM hate mob. It’s why Bragg is going after Trump.
Progressive prosecutors are really political prosecutors and Bragg is one of the worst of the lot.
Before Bragg, New York State Attorney General Letitia James calmly watched exploding crime rates while going after the NRA and then Trump with a view to running for governor. The Manhattan DA is just following in her footsteps by prosecuting political crimes instead of crimes.
Bragg hopes that maddened Manhattanites hate Trump enough to ignore the fact that he has allowed criminals to run free. And he expects to use the case to run for higher office.
For Manhattanites the question is whether they want public safety or a Trump prosecution.
DA Alvin Bragg is out to redeem a year of criminal terror with a Trump arrest. And if New Yorkers had to die, be beaten, robbed and raped to make it happen, that’s a small price to pay.
As Cruz said Trump is a NY liberal and NY is criminal justice reform in action. You can’t have your cake and eat it too. That’s what Trump tries to do but that middle road is going nowhere fast.
4 hours of Trump rambling at his 2024 announcement. Not much on crime except some mention of MS13 brutality. Rambling mess. He’s going to spend more on border patrol. Nothing. 4 hours of America looking more lost than it did before he started.
C’mon man, you know that we all hate that orange man, he’s bad. If he is inco incoch inchu in in in incr erm a thing, it’s because he’s a white supremacist.
How about you prosecute forner governor Cuomo, ex NYC mayor and Senator Shumer for their malfeasance in handing the Covid-19 outbreak in early 2020 when they encouraged citizens to celebrate in Chinatown or ordered Covid-infected individuals into nursing homes where those most vulnerable to the virus resided. Their actions likely resulted in NYC’s rampant and deadly pandemic.
even IF its all true what you blather about, this DA is still our mortal enemy and MUST be dumped. Whethr Ornj Man Badd or not, this DA is worthy of some serous time behind bars. If I were directly responsible for s many deaths as this creature is, I SHOULD be keepng an appointment with ol’ Sparky.
Gimme a T, gimme a D, gimme an S! TDS TDS hip hip hooray!
Go find your moral compass assuming you at least have a few vestiges of it left worth calibrating.
With hindsight, Trump should have disentangled himself from New York when he entered politics. I remember that occurred to me fairly early in his political career. I could see these politically motivated prosecutions coming at that time.
Why do you hate Trump so much? Is it because the media tell you to? He’s a good man and was a great President. He sure helped Britain more than the frauds who came before him.
Una is criticizing Trump for not being conservative enough
What shall we call this hidden agenda of getting people into positions of power for destructive purposes? How about SPP – Strategic Political Placement. It seems Alvin Bragg is a most willing participant in the SPPP (Strategic Political Placement Plan). The only requirement to be a part of the plan is that you sell your soul.
Is it true that Alvin Bragg has a net worth of 41 million dollars?
Is it valid to ask, “Who’s been grooming him over the last 25-30 years?“
On a lighter note – Remember the 60’s tv show “Get Smart“ and the evil organization CHAOS and the dome of silence?
We laughed because good always defeated evil.
Maybe call it Stalinism?
It’s worse than that. That’s why it’s so insidious. Hard to believe. Tip of the iceberg.
Relax guys because Trump has a plan to defeat the deep state involving(you guessed it) executive orders. A plan so obvious the deep state will never even see it coming.
Dump Trump for his mis-handling of the pandemic. How you ask.
1. For not pushing treatments early, that worked
2. For not firing Fauci, Birx and others who were incompetent according to Dr Scott Atlas
3. For giving Big Pharma a free pass to develop a useless and deadly “vaccine” at taxpayer’s expense both financially and health wise
4. For calling for an investigation of the election, but offering little proof himself
4. For calling supporters to DC on Jan 6 and leaving them hanging out to dry without offering any actual support to them, legal or otherwise
Yes, but I can understand that, not being a medical expert, he didn’t have enough knowledge to judge for himself, but relied on medical pseudo-experts, which was his downfall.
I took the Johnson and Johnson “vaccine.” It was no big deal. I took polio, measles and mumps vaccines when I was in kindergarten. Also no big deal
Only people with serious physical impairments die from vaccines.
My friend was perfectly fit, had a stroke, his wife was a little overweight but otherwise fine, died after the injection.
Another friend cannot walk anymore.
My nephew now cannot see out of one eye and three more friends have sight problems since.
Another friend had his cancer turn aggressive, dead within three weeks.
I’m glad you were fine but wouldn’t let the nazis inject me, in the words of leftist elites, my body my choice.
I’m not anti vaccs, but the covid shots aren’t vaccines. That’s a cold hard scientific fact.
Facts:
1. Jan 31, 2020 Trump declared the Chinese Virus a public health emergency, and became the first national leader to implement a ban on travel coming from China. This was done without one recorded death in the US at the time.
2 Signed legislation securing trillions of dollars for coronavirus response efforts
3 Permit Medicare Advantage and Part D health plans to waive co-payments for coronavirus tests and treatment
4 Recruit auto manufacturers to re-purpose their assembly lines for the mass production of ventilators
5. Trump had the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers set up an emergency hospital at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan to ease the strain on hospitals.
6.Initiated having the USNS Navy ship in NY Harbor to house an additional 200 beds for emergency use.
While all the other “leaders” were calling Trump a racist and encouraging travel into the US Trump was the first one to curtail Chinese travel into thew US. Countless examples of Democrats policies that had the elderly die from the virus.
No proof of election fraud? What a moron you are. There is overwhelming proof and I’ll refer you to the latest article on Frontpage “Auditing Biden’s “Victory”.
What a simpleton you are.
“2nd we will clean out all the corrupt actors in our national security and intelligence apparatus and there are plenty of them.” Trump should know he probably appointed not a few of them.,
Drain that swamp, baby. 4D chess master was too brilliant to do it in his first term when they were expecting it.
C’mon man I couldn’t afford a TV in the 60’s
The Republican who ran after Bragg received maybe 10% of the vote – and he had warned people about Bragg. People voted for the miscreant Alvin Bragg in part because of a super crowded field of candidates. People have to pay more attention to the District Attorney elections: one can win without raising tons of money compared to other races.
Who’s been grooming him? The same people who groomed obama.
His pants have no crease however.
4 hours of random anecdotes, self congratulation and empty promises we heard the first time. If the economy implodes he might even get elected and then we’ll have his version of a New Deal.
C’mon man, my tax dist dust distrib dis dis dis sending to my friends is makin green new deals man it ain’t nothin about a bad economy
OK OK OK we GET it…
you DO NOT like Orange Man.
This piece s not bout HIM its about a really rotten and dangerous corrupt DA who is directly and indirectly killing New Yorkers while wasting $Mns of public dollars to try and make Orange Man Bad disappear.
Get over it. Orange Man is NOT the issue. Take yer whinge off to somewhere else.
Spot on. Allez Trumpie
“Bragg is one of the worst of the lot”
Yeah, I was thinking he must be the worst, but there are so many bad ones I can’t say that.
Leticia James is very bad but I can’t help wanting to nail her. She’s a bit fat but hot. And what a rack!
lol, you’re braver than I am 🙂
She is not beneath you. Is your remark?
Bragg like all Soros paid for DAs is a public defender on steroids with FDR left policy views
If Manhattenites don’t like the rampant crime and destruction being visited on them maybe next time they should be more careful on who they’re voting for. Bragg’s is an elected position.
Yeah, except that they’re lefty idiots. 🙂
Alvan Bragg is such a terrible man that should be put in prison .Even before he he maliciously has gone after Donald Trump that villainous DA did everything to get real criminals, street hooligans, “off the hook” then they committed violent crimes.
For example, Bragg went 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.”
C’mon man, we all know he’s a racist who won’t try colored people, but I’m OK cause I’m con con confused, no connected man, you should join us C’MON
Yeah, Bragg is a typical black racist. It’s obvious.
Simple. Hold a recall vote, and then replace the Braggart with a decent DA, one who protects the innocent instead of the criminals. But in Blue cities, everyone votes Democrat. My party, right or wrong is the motivation. If you went to Yale, you root for Yale. No matter how corrupt and bad they are, they are their party. And the Republicans are often worthless RINOs who are not much better.
Yes, thee are Democrat voters. Such as Immigrants with their hands out and very wealthy elite liberals. But theres lots of fraud and a Democrat political machine that makes a Republican win almost impossible.
NYC is very big. There are entire neighborhoods of patriotic people. And not everyone can “just move.” although many have.
The state is basically a red state. But, the urban areas carry the state, sad to say. States with large urban areas need a state level electoral college approach so the cities do not carry the state.
Good point. One look at a national map, county by county, shows how small concentrations of blue, metropolitan counties set the agenda for states that are overwhelmingly red. Blue run states would never allow a state centered electoral college to exist.
That terrible man, Alvan Bragg, should be put in prison .Even before he he maliciously has gone after Donald Trump that villainous DA did everything to get real criminals, street hooligans, “off the hook” then they committed violent crimes.
For example, Bragg when 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.”
Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six. But if I ever encoutered him he would need iron discipline to stop himself from making the mistake of swinging at me.
That awful despicable man ,Alvan Bragg, should be put in prison .Even before he
maliciously has gone after Donald Trump that villainous DA did everything to get real criminals , street hooligans, “off the hook” then they committed violent crimes..
As ,for example, Bragg went 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.
Therefore such horrible characters as Bragg , him and other like him stand condemned in the Bible.
For in Proverbs 17 : 15 the reader in informed that “Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent – the Lord detest them both.” [N.I.V.]
As mentioned in this article there are dozens of stories of rapists and murderers released on “no bail” or “time served” just to rape and murder again. It’s absolutely disgusting that this man has wasted untold millions and his entire tenure pursuing a useless vendetta against Trump. He his the real criminal that has blood and death on his hands as murders in NYC have increased 30% as he clearly cares more about criminals than the citizens he is sworn to protect. He is the one that should be arrested. And even citizen in this country who has been harmed by these “no bail” policies should sue the DA’s for their injuries and for neglect of duty.
There was ONE part of this report that truly warmed the cockles of my heart….
the one about the woman, the intended next victim in a long train if them, who used a hammer to DO what Bragg refused to do, and took out the trash what was assaulting her.
even if that hammer she used was a $650 military issue unit, it was still the best bargain with respect to justice.
SHE deserves a medal, and free parking anywhere in NYC for the rest of her life. But she probably does not even own a car to park. OK free subway tikets. Make sure she brings her hammer everywehre. She might need it there.
Bragg is a murderer. And rapist, robber, etc.
He will never face justice on this side of the daisies, but he will face justice.
G-d bless everyone here.
God bless you too Dan, and he will eventually have to face God, whether he believes in Him or not.
Bragg belongs in prison with the rest of them involved in this Witch Hunt and throw away the Key
New York is reverting back to a state similar to West Africa before the Colonial Period, with human sacrifice similar to that of the Aztecs. Slavery in West Africa and human sacrifice were intimately related. Most of the sacrificial victims were black slaves ruled by black kings.
The Democrats are all ready to allow the whole Nation to be invaded so they can attract some new voters and stay in power
All too true, sadly. 🙁
If liberals spent more time doing their jobs and upholding the laws that protect the innocent, from an out of control lawless government and George Soros appointed prosecutors, and concentrating on their own greed and power, the world would be a better place.
Alvin Bragg has achieved a triple triple in the game of three monkeys. He had to not see and not hear a lot of evil to have the time to do great evil.
Those who benefit and are not the victims of rape, robbery and homicide always feel it was a small price to pay.