Queens Prosecutors Long Overlooked Misconduct. Can a New D.A. Do Better?
In her first year as district attorney, Melinda Katz has led major culture shifts in the borough. But some hope for more.
Melinda R. Katz is the first new district attorney in Queens in nearly 30 years.Credit.Sarah Blesener for The New York Times
Jan. 27, 2021
The crimes were heinous, the punishments severe: A Latino man was sentenced to 40 years to life for murdering two people at a nightclub in 1993. A Black man was given 25 years to life for shooting a police officer two years later.
But in both men’s trials, officials now acknowledge, a prosecutor from the Queens County district attorney’s office illegally excluded women and people of color from the juries the kind of misconduct that both defense lawyers and some of the office’s former prosecutors say was long overlooked.
(Natural News) (Article by John L. Kachelman, Jr. republished from TheGatewayPundit.com)
One of the vilest perpetrators of political purges was Joseph Stalin. Stalin’s memorable quote regarding his attitude toward those in the opposition was: “If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.” This epitomizes the energy of the Purge The ruling Elite decides you are wrong, you are to be punished, and you have no option but submit!
And so, I make the tragic announcement: We are walking into the “killing fields” of the 21
st Century! Prepare for the Purge that is coming to YOU! Anticipate the “reeducation” centers your children and grandchildren will be forced to attend.
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When 1,400 laborers at the Hunts Point Produce Market, a 113-acre distribution hub in the Bronx, decided to strike earlier this month, their demands were simple: a $1 hourly raise and better health benefits. Their employer had offered them a 32 cent-per-hour increase, which the workers considered an insult. After all, they’d worked nonstop through a pandemic that had killed six of them.1
AOC Calls Out Josh Hawley s Muzzled Claim: You re Just Deeply Unpopular
On 1/25/21 at 3:44 PM EST
In a cover essay published by the
New York Post on Monday, Hawley claimed that he d been canceled and muzzled in the U.S. The title of Hawley s essay is It s time to stand up against the muzzling of America. The GOP lawmaker, who has been widely criticized for formally objecting to Arizona s and Pennsylvania s electoral votes when they were certified by Congress earlier this month, linked to the article in a tweet Ocasio-Cortez later retweeted with criticism. You were given prime space to say this in a billionaire-run rag that specifically amplifies right-wing views, part of a entire subsidized industry of right-wing outlets. You re not muzzled, Hawley. You re just deeply unpopular, and aided insurrection, the progressive congresswoman wrote. And you need to resign.
Garret Miller, who was among those who stormed the Capitol, also threatened the officer who fatally shot a Trump supporter, saying he would “hug his neck with a nice rope,” prosecutors said.