Anti-Asian hate crimes increased by 500% in San Francisco last year. Half of the reported incidents were allegedly committed by one man, a purported migrant who needed a translator after he was arrested. Now DA Chesa Boudin has released him from custody. https://t.co/EUZUTipp1m
Questions are being raised after a man accused of being involved in over two dozen hate crimes committed against the API community last year was allowed to be out of custody despite the number of charges against him.
According to the San Francisco District Attorney’s office, 37-year-old Derik Barreto is the man responsible for more than half of all reported hate crimes against the API community in San Francisco last year.
Barreto is scheduled to appear in court at the end of the month. Prosecutors argued against mental health diversion for the defendant, who has been charged, but is not in custody right now.
Surveillance video from several Chinese-owned San Francisco businesses captured a man on a scooter last summer, smashing windows, sometimes with a slingshot, entering stores, burglarizing, and vandalizing property.
Authorities said Barreto is the man responsible for a string of 27 separate attacks, many in the Ingleside neighborhood, Chinatown, and in the Ocean Avenue corridor, that haunted business owners between April and August of last year.
“His target was the Asian community. So what would have happened if any of those victims were inside the stores and tried to defend themselves? This could have easily escalated into something much worse,” said former San Francisco Mayoral candidate Richie Greeberg.
District Attorney’s Chesa Boudin’s office charged Barreto soon after police arrested him in August with 27 felony counts of vandalism, four felony counts of second degree burglary, one misdemeanor count of possession of burglary tools, along with one misdemeanor count of possession of a concealed weapon.
Barreto was also charged with 31 hate crime enhancements, which authorities said were based on racially charged statements he made.
A judge granted Barreto mental health diversion in September, according to the DA’s office.
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Following his arrest, the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office charged Barreto with a total of 33 crimes, as NextShark previously reported. Those included 27 felony counts of vandalism, four felony counts of second-degree burglary, one misdemeanor count of possession of burglary tools and one misdemeanor count of possession of a concealed weapon.
The definition of "hate crime" really loosened up to make headlines. This while old Asians cold cocked from behind and left in a coma on the sidewalk is classified as littering. All depends on which group is doing the hating.
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An ongoing "investigation" can protect its subjects from other outside probes and give the appearance of action while also offering the timeless PR cover of "...cannot comment on ongoing investigations" which offers the appearance of probity and integrity while revealing nothing. Consider the Durham road show and the winding path towards justice or the statute of limitations, depending on the blast radius of actual prosecution.
[Breitbart] Democrats have complained about so-called “dark money” for a decade, but they benefited from $1.5 billion in “dark money” spending in the 2020 election, compared to $900 million for Republicans, according to a recent New York Times analysis.
“Dark money” is money spent by groups outside campaigns and political parties that do not have to disclose their donors — either because they are organized as “social welfare” organizations under section 501(c)4 of the federal tax code, or as 501(c)3 charities receiving contributions from donor-advised funds that allow many donors to remain anonymous.
Democrats have claimed for years that Republicans are the primary beneficiaries of “dark money,” ever since the Supreme Court decided in the Citizens United case in 2011 that the Federal Elections Commission could not censor an anti-Hillary Clinton film before an election because people organized as corporations, no less than individuals, have free speech rights.
Clinton and almost every Democrat since has run on a pledge to revise the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to limit the ability of corporations to spend on elections. Meanwhile, however, they have built a dominant “dark money” machine.
The Times‘ Kenneth P. Vogel and Shane Goldmacher note that Democrats even funded “Republican” anti-Trump groups:
The analysis shows that 15 of the most politically active nonprofit organizations that generally align with the Democratic Party spent more than $1.5 billion in 2020 — compared to roughly $900 million spent by a comparable sample of 15 of the most politically active groups aligned with the G.O.P.
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A single, cryptically named entity that has served as a clearinghouse of undisclosed cash for the left, the Sixteen Thirty Fund,
...bankrolled by Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss, reporting to DC consulting group Arabella Advisors that manages a network of such groups, and staffed by a Who’s Who of seasoned Democratic operatives...
received mystery donations as large as $50 million and disseminated grants to more than 200 groups, while spending a total of $410 million in 2020 — more than the Democratic National Committee itself.
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The big-money right was fractured over whether to support Mr. Trump’s re-election. Anti-Trump Republicans started new groups that were welcomed into the left’s big-money firmament: Defending Democracy Together, co-founded in 2018 by the conservative pundit William Kristol,
...who now pundits for Progressive pay instead...
spent nearly $40 million in 2020 — $10.5 million of it from the Sixteen Thirty Fund. And Mr. Trump’s baseless claims about voter fraud hamstrung Republican efforts to compete with progressive groups that spent heavily to promote early and mail voting.
On the left, the prospect of a second Trump term spurred a new class of megadonors, and helped allay lingering qualms about the corrosive effect of secret money among some Democrats.
Republicans are attempting to catch up, organizing their own “dark money” efforts to oppose President Joe Biden and his policies. However, they have much catching up to do. Biden, who struggled early in the race, raised over $1 billion directly in 2020, versus $800 million for President Donald Trump, who was outspent though he had the advantage of incumbency.
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Liars. These are the flaming assholes who bleated for decades about "big money" was corrupting our politics, how the GOP was the party of "no billionaire left behind," how giant corporations like hAlliBUrToN!!! dominate our politics.
How "democracy does in darkness." Etc etc.
So much ridiculous, day-is-night and up-is-down retarded bullshit.
Such shameless hypocrites. Literally nothing they say can be believed.
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Money is only the root of all evil when it's being spent by other people with other ideas.
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Everyone looks out for their family first. The way to take down oligarchs is to take down their familys. This is what BLM was doing but they did not go high enough up the tree.
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Besoker I’m in blue/blue DeKalb, Brookhaven and I never saw signs like normal. My flannel wearing, Indigo Girls loving, Subaru driving neighbors didn’t post an Ossoff sign
[Townhall] GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina on Sunday pushed back against some of his Republican colleagues' claims that President Joe Biden's pledge to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court is an example of affirmative action, saying instead that he favors making the bench "look like America."
Biden said Thursday he would nominate a black woman to the bench after Associate Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer announced his plans to retire, reiterating comments he made as a presidential candidate during a Democratic primary debate in early 2020.
Graham said during an appearance on CBS's "Face the Nation" that selecting qualified people of color to serve in American institutions is not the same as picking someone purely based on their race.
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I could care less about the race, color, creed, or M/F sex of the SCOTUS nominee selection.
BUT HAVING SAID THAT.
Any president deciding to pick only based on that limited criteria
is political and wreaks of Racial Sexual Pandering for votes over applying the best justice for the USA.
MY OPINION
The SCOTUS must always have the BEST US CONSTITUTIONAL Legal Minds ruling on the written US Constitution. Not judges ruling based on their Political handler's agendas, or judges that use the position to liberally interpret and/or add their own ideas of Social Justice to the US Constitution.
BTW:
Given the craziness of this Admin. One has to wonder if the Biden handlers may have looked just to see if there was a Black, Transgender Federal Judge they could nominate. ☻
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Since at least the 1930s there's always been a custom of recognizing the political importance of the latest socially- and politically-ascendant ethnic or other minority in each generation with at least one Justice to represent that group on SCOTUS.
First it was (Irish) Catholics and Jews (F. Murphy, F. Frankfurter), then Black males (Marshall, Thomas), then women.
And now (wise-guy) Latin(a)s and Magic Mulattas.
And (soon) Gheys and Chix wit Dix. And a Non-Citizen Undocumented Hiji de Dios.
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#7 NN2N1, unfortunately Lindsey is not the one up for reelection this year. Tim Scott is.
We reelected Lindsey in 2020--he had laughably weak primary opposition; and in the general, well his opponent was Jaime Harrison, currently the chair of the DNC--which tells you all you need to know. It was truly the election of the lesser of two evils.
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As Tyrus said yesterday on Fox News this will only give ammunition to those opposed to black Americans. They can then claim, with some ammount of credibility, she was only chosen because she is black. It is political.
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“The White House has confirmed that they are considering South Carolina District Court Judge Michelle Childs to fill Justice Stephen Breyer’s seat on the Supreme Court.
Childs is, as promised by Biden, a black woman.
“Judge Childs is among multiple individuals under consideration for the Supreme Court, and we are not going to move her nomination on the Court of Appeals while the President is considering her for this vacancy,” White House Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates said in a statement, obtained by Fox News. “At the same time, reporting indicating that the President is only seriously considering three potential nominees is incorrect.”
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Just can't make it without old Uncle Joe's hand-me-downs. Great messaging.
[Breitbart] I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Richard Cheney, is reportedly planning to attend a fundraiser in March for embattled Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), who is targeting Trump on the January 6 Committee. Trump just doesn't get it. The people who keep on pulling for him in the face of this kind of thing don't get it either.
Libby was convicted in 2007 of obstruction of justice and other crimes related to a leak of the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson. The conviction was widely viewed as a miscarriage of justice, especially because Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage later admitted that he was the likely source of the leak, not Libby. President George W. Bush commuted Libby’s sentence, but despite the urging of then-Vice President Cheney, he declined to issue a formal pardon for his aide.
It was only Trump who pardoned Libby in 2018, taking the political heat for doing so and standing up for Libby’s record of public service. Former Vice President Cheney called Trump personally to thank him for pardoning his long-time aide.
Now, both the former vice president and his aide are participating in a fundraiser for Cheney, who defied her own party to participate in the one-sided January 6 committee, which aims to damage Trump ahead of the 2022 and 2024 elections.
The Hill reported Wednesday (emphasis added):
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) is participating in a fundraiser for Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) in March as the Wyoming incumbent looks to protect her seat against Trump-endorsed Republican primary challenger Harriet Hageman, according to an invitation obtained by The Hill.
Other guests include former Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife; former chief of staff to Cheney Scooter Libby; former U.S. solicitor general Ted Olson; former chief of staff to the late Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.) Sheila Burke; and former Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-Va.), among others.
Ironically, Dick Cheney believed that Libby had been the victim of an overzealous prosecutor, a biased Washington jury, and those in the government who wanted to damage the Bush administration because of growing opposition to the Iraq War.
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This is just an attempt to fill Cheney's pockets with some spending money. Even a blind man can see she is out of a job come November.
(Well, out of congress that is.)
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[Townhall] GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina on Sunday pushed back against some of his Republican colleagues' claims that President Joe Biden's pledge to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court is an example of affirmative action, saying instead that he favors making the bench "look like America."
