Insane progressive leniency keeps letting more young terrors skirt
Progressives and their insane leniency strike again.
In Colorado, a prog prosecutor basically let a 15-year-old illegal immigrant walk after he killed a 24-year-old woman in a high-speed car crash.
In New York, cops hauled in the 15-year-old poster boy for the Tren de Aragua farm team, Diablos de la 42 (Little Devils) for the robbery of a 16-year-old autistic boy on Staten Island.
The alleged thug had been busted 12 times before — but, as a police source gripes 'short of murder, there is no mechanism to hold juvenile offenders accountable' in New York.
What perfect progressive public-safety storms: lefty policies cascading to foster utter lawlessness.
First: Neither hooligan should've been in the country in the first place, but President Joe Biden did the bidding of his party's left by waving in millions of 'asylum seekers' with little vetting and in blatant violation of the law, and the country will likely be years dealing with the impact.
Second: Progressives refuse to let underage perps ever face adult punishment, and in practice impose no consequences at all.
Thus the Colorado youth, a Colombian national, got just two years probation and 100 hours of community service for the July 2024 death of Kaitlyn Weaver — as long as he promised to go to school and obey the law in future.
That's it, though he drove the car without a license and sped down recklessly down a 45 mph street at 90.
The Little Devil poster kid, meanwhile, is believed part of a crew of about 40 behind numerous robberies and assaults in New York, per cops.
But juveniles here get to run wild, law-enforcement officials fume, thanks to 'reforms' like the Raise the Age act, which keep teens under 18 from suffering anything more than wrist-slaps for all but the most heinous crimes.
Other ridiculous laws, like cashless bail, and pro-criminal judges and prosecutors compound the problem.
Weaver's dad, John Weaver, said he was expecting a full trial of the Columbian teen and for the district attorney to offer no concessions. But then lefty Amy Padden won election to the DA job, and rapidly handed the teen a sweetheart plea deal.
'Immigration and the criminal justice system and all these things landed together one day,' fumed Weaver, fighting back tears. 'Now I sit here today without a daughter.'
The autistic boy's mom is also rightly outraged: 'It makes me sick that these kids are still here,' she seethed.
Alas, the 'undeportable' criminals will remain roaming the streets and terrorizing the public, until America's progs change course.
Or voters change them.
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