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NYC DOJ drops charges against looters rioters (except those who target diamond district)

They Looted Businesses During Black Lives Matter Riots. Their Charges Were Dropped And Storeowners Aren’t Happy.

By Ashe Schow, Jun 19, 2021 DailyWire.com

Last summer, as the Black Lives Matter movement protested and rioted across the country in response to the police-involved death of Minneapolis resident George Floyd, businesses in numerous U.S. cities were ravaged and looted.

NBC News reported that prosecutors in the Bronx and Manhattan have decided to drop burglary and looting charges against hundreds of rioters, angering store owners who had their businesses destroyed.

“I was in total shock that everything is being brushed off to the side,” Jessica Betancourt, whose eyeglass shop was one of the businesses looted, told NBC.

The outlet reported that a review of New York Police Department data show a large percentage of the cases against looters have been dismissed, leaving mostly convictions for the lesser charge of trespassing, which carries no jail time.

“According to the data, 118 arrests were made in the Bronx during the worst of the looting in early June,” NBC reported. “Since then, the NYPD says the Bronx district attorney and the courts have dismissed most of those cases — 73 in all. Eighteen cases remain open and there have been 19 convictions for mostly lesser counts like trespassing, counts which carry no jail time.”

www.dailywire.com/news/they-looted-businesses-during-black-lives-matter-riots-their-charges-were-dropped-and-storeowners-arent-happy

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BLM protester threatens to burn down NYC Diamond District during Fox News interview, is arrested for terror threats

By WES PARNELL NEW YORK DAILY NEWS JUN 07, 2020

A George Floyd protester was arrested after he made a threat on live television to burn down Manhattan’s ritzy Diamond District, cops said Sunday.

Israel Burns, 34, of Bath Beach, Brooklyn, was arrested about 8 p.m. on Saturday after he was interviewed on Fox News earlier in the day and threatened to burn down the Diamond District if the mayor and governor didn’t come to speak to a crowd gathered at Barclays Center, video shows.

www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-protester-fox-news-interview-threat-burn-diamond-district-20200607-5wl7bc5y7zgnjefl6aq5qhbqtq-story.html

Marxist Black Lives Matter Founder Didn’t Just Buy a Million Dollar Compound — She Bought FOUR High End Homes, Complete With Airplane Hangars

The New York Post reports that “the group’s co-founder went on a real estate-buying binge, snagging four high-end homes for $3.2 million in the US alone, according to property records.”

“Patrisse Khan-Cullors, 37, also eyed property in the Bahamas at an ultra-exclusive resort where Justin Timberlake and Tiger Woods both have homes, The Post has learned. Luxury apartments and townhouses at the beachfront Albany resort outside Nassau are priced between $5 million and $20 million, according to a local agent,” the report states.

The Post also reported that “last year, Khan-Cullors and spouse Janaya Khan ventured to Georgia to acquire a fourth home — a ‘custom ranch’ on 3.2 rural acres in Conyers featuring a private airplane hangar with a studio apartment above it, and the use of a 2,500-foot ‘paved/grass’ community runway that can accommodate small airplanes.”

www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/marxist-black-lives-matter-founder-didnt-just-buy-million-dollar-compound-bought-four-high-end-homes-complete-airplane-hangars/