Chad Loder: LA's District Attorney George Gascon has declined to charge Edan On, the man who injured several people in an hours-long brutal attack on UCLA students' pro-Palestine encampment last month. On was featured by name in a CNN report after his mother celebrated his crimes. www.cnn.com/2024/06/21/u...

LA's District Attorney George Gascon has declined to charge Edan On, the man who injured several people in an hours-long brutal attack on UCLA students' pro-Palestine encampment last month. On was featured by name in a CNN report after his mother celebrated his crimes. www.cnn.com/2024/06/21/u...

LA County declines to charge man recorded attacking pro-Palestine protesters at UCLA, refers case to city attorney’s office | CNNwww.cnn.com The case against Edan On, the 18-year-old accused of attacking pro-Palestinian protesters at UCLA in April, has been referred to the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office for misdemeanor filing considera...

Are we surprised? A lot of "prosecutorial descretion" was used as a BS excuse by tons of DAs across the country during 2020 to not bother charging or pursuing charges against right wing counter protestors who attacked BLM marches. See: Larry Arnold Davis, aka The St. Petersburg Gunman in Florida

I'm not surprised, but this is bad politics on Gascon's part. Gascon was elected only with the help of a left-wing coalition, he remains extremely unpopular with the right and center-right, who have already tried to recall him. He's spitting in the face of his only supporters.

No me sorprende. DA's in California are full of it.

What the fuck

follow the money.. how much has aipac (sp) given them?

so track him down and break his legs. if they wont do justice then we will

as a starting place, I’d hope

And this is part of why you get vigilantes and revenge killings.

vigilanteism is neutral. its result can be judged morally. ruining a fascist? good. lynching a random black dude? bad. anything else i cam help you with

Too often, when reading online, my head feels like it's going to explode. This is one of those times.

It always gives me whiplash to see a prosecutor, a group that is categorically incredibly creative at turning anything into a felony, suddenly unable to frame an armed assault as more than a misdemeanor.

This is state violence by proxy

What the actual fuck

Crime captured on video. Criminal intent publicly stated by the asshole’s mother, who bragged about it. What does it fucking take

Attacking pro-genocide protestors

Most of what's left of the progressive prosecutor movement is really in tatters

home visits

Isn’t this what the GOP means by DAs being ‘soft on crime’? Well, isn’t it?

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what the fuck

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