Focusing on city crime is “racist messaging”
Philadelphia District Attorney, Larry Krasner, painted Pennsylvania state Republican lawmakers as engaging in “racist messaging”. The Pennsylvania House Select Committee investigating him issued subpoenas for his appearance. Krasner had issues with it, as it was a testimony to be made behind closed doors. He apparently wanted the public to have access to his questioning and responses. He hinted that the will of the voters, across two election cycles, was at stake.
From Fox News:
Speaking from the Pennsylvania State Capitol Friday morning, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner claimed Republicans’ focus on city crime ahead of the November midterm elections amounts to “racist messaging.”
Krasner, 61, made the comments while holding a press conference on the Capitol steps to address the state House Select Committee’s investigation of his office and its enforcement of criminal law.
The progressive DA said he refused to comply with the committee’s request to testify under oath behind closed doors, with no access to the public.
The committee refused his requests to testify and answer questions at a public hearing, Krasner alleged, “because this political stunt ostensibly involves matters of very significant and very important public concern and because the votes cast by Philadelphians in overwhelming numbers in two elections are at stake.”
Krasner then accused Republican lawmakers of focusing on rising crime in Philadelphia at the expense of their own districts, saying it was the party playbook to “point a finger at large, diverse cities and say large diverse cities are lawless.”
“You ever heard that before?” Krasner asked before recounting Richard Nixon’s 1968 campaign pledge to tackle “lawlessness” in “one large, diverse city after another.”
“What we see here is the same old playbook, which is about coded and racist messaging,” Krasner said. “It’s about blaming the biggest city in Pennsylvania with the most diverse population for having the same national struggle that we have with gun violence everywhere and even having increases that are less the committee’s counties.”
He added: “There is no integrity to this process. If there was – and I would join them and help them every step of the way – they would look at the entire state, and they would look at some real solutions and something that can be done to make it better.”
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Category: "Teh Stoopid", 2022 Elections, Democrats
The A hole philly da knows whats going on and calls the rhino republicans racist even though they didn’t mention gender or skin color. Looks like he wants to keep everything hush hush mush mush.
He knows the 13% commit 90% of the violent crimes in his city. That is why he says that. But those facts are no racist, just realist.
When everything is racist, nothing will be racist.
Um…. did Krasner just ‘quiet part out loud’?
From the cheap seats it was hard to hear, can I get a ruling on the play?
I think he said that people of color commit more crime than non people of color. But to point that out is racist. Or even to mention crime because of that
As always:
Sorry, not sorry there dumbass, large, diverse cities are lawless. And it is mainly because of dumbasses like you.
What, don’t be racist– it’s all for “social justice,” you know!
Krasner calling for integrity when he has none himself is really sick.
Thanks, Larry. I am a bit disappointed, though. I put a lot of thought into your new board name and now I can’t in good conscience pin it on you.
*grin*
With the uptick in crime the sales records of firearm sales continues apace. Ove a million a month in the past five years. The sales record shows no sign of slowing down.
Ammo is easier to get and not as expensive as it was during the chicom flu and more and more people are discovering that self defense is the real reason for the Second Amendment and is a God Given Right, not a government given right.
Not in Canada.
Meh, projecting much? How about the black-on-black crime and murder rates – OOH, is me racist now?
Krasner is one of those Soros backed DAs. They all echo the same garbage.