Two members of the Democratic Party ‘squad’ are touting their views in favor of abolishing federal prisons and quashing ‘excessive bail’ just a day after a convicted felon who was out on bail mowed down scores of people with his SUV in suburban Milwaukee, killing five.
House Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez provoked rage on social media on Monday for demanding answers on ‘excessive bail’ that is imposed by prosecutors in New York City on Monday.
Meanwhile, fellow ‘squad’ member House Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the Democrat from Michigan, had trouble explaining her support for a law that would empty federal prisons within a period of 10 years.
The comments prompted harsh criticism on Twitter, where people accused the progressive lawmakers of being tone deaf to air their views while the community of Waukesha grieves the loss of life from Sunday’s tragedy.
– Read more at the Daily Mail
More than 75% of individuals in custody haven't been convicted of a crime, and are confined in unsafe conditions simply because they cannot afford cash bail. Condemning thousands of individuals to languish in such environments as they await trial is unacceptable.
— Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@RepAOC) November 22, 2021
‘Squad’ Rep. Tlaib grilled over bill that would empty federal prisons in 10 years
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., revealed in a new interview, perhaps unwittingly, that she doesn’t necessarily support the details in a bill she endorsed last year that would abolish federal prisons over the course of 10 years, admitting that there are some people who legitimately belong behind bars.
During an interview Monday with Axios reporter Jonathan Swan, Tlaib was pressed on her support for the BREATHE Act, which calls for the Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services to create a “roadmap for prison abolition,” including the “full decarceration of federal detention facilities within 10 years” and “a moratorium on all new federal prison, jail, immigrant and youth detention construction.”
– Read more at Fox News
This is quite an interview. Killing the Filibuster then this … https://t.co/gnsze33LKm
— Bret Baier (@BretBaier) November 22, 2021
For those who think “Defund the Police” simply does not go far enough….. https://t.co/YNQHoAiHBx
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) November 22, 2021
Only makes sense that the prisons will need to be emptied so that when the republicans take charge there’s room for all the crooked democrat politicians and illegals.
My thoughts EXACTLY!
You beat me to it!
You make one BIG assumption… THAT EVEN IF the republicans get back in charge, that ANY OF THESE TREASONOUS CRIMINALS< will ever get charged with a crime..
AND there is NO NEED to clear out all the other criminals, to "make room" for these folks..
Just keep talking you stupid tone-deaf broads.
Every time you open your mouths another Democrat loses his seat in Congress.
Think we need a reform of AOC’s Excessive Mouth.
OR tape it shut, permanently!
Bug eyed donkey face and the four eyed pig face making racket again. Nobody’s listening.
Dumb and Dumber—and their positions are interchangeable. These two clowns belong in a circus—oh, I forgot—they’re in one already—Congress.
IF i had my way, EVERY POLITICIAN Like them, who WILLINGLY AND knowingly, let crooks go free, WHO THEN GO ON TO KILL OR INJURE WE citizens, would be SITTING RIGHT IN THE SAME JAIL CELL as that criminal is, when we convict them…
THEY need to start being CRIMINALLY held Liable..
Heck, that DA in Wisconsin who helped pen the law for bail reform, FLAT OUT ADMITTED “Yes there will be folks on the street who get killed because of this. BUT that does not mean we shouldn’t do it”.
SO HE KNEW CRIMINALS WOULD Go on to kill Other folks, while out because of the no-bail balloney.. BUT FEELS that OUR DEATHS don’t matter, just that the criminals get freed…
AOC and the ‘SQUAT’ will replace the 50M barrels of TRUMP OIL with barrels of Sunshine and Wind for their ‘Green Raw Deal’.
It’s NOT that AOC is DUMP (though she clearly IS), it’s just that the Democrats are UNCARING LUNATICS!
Seriously, AOC (and her “squad”) REALLY DO want to populate our streets with CRIMINALS.
Doesn’t ANY DEMOCRAT see the tragic irony in releasing (on bail) someone who has been RE-ARRESTED for “Bail Jumping”?
If they had merely CONTINUED Trump’s policies, we’d have more oil and cheaper gasoline (and home heating oil), the LOWEST unemployment in HISTORY, and a BOOMING economy (for EVERYONE)!
But, NO…
Our elected (Democrat) Representatives are TOO BUSY chasing Donald Trump and his associates (STILL)!
That’s because THEY ARE SHIELDED from the results OF those crooks being out on the street.
ITS NO THEM being assaulted. ITS NOT them being raped or mugged. ITS not their kin, being killed.
its only we ‘little people’. So to these elites, WE DON’T matter.
daughters of satan
They could be released in an area where only the victims of their crimes should know or even better, to Palestine..
What gets ME about this, is EVEN AFTER SEEING how many instances where Their “BAIL REFORM” has come back to bite WE NORMAL FOLKS In the butt, THEY ARE STILL FULLY for it..
Einstine was right, ONLY THE INSANE do the same things, time and time again, and expect different results.