The judge can hear the footsteps behind him.
A Washington, D.C., judge has ordered the two teens charged in the attack on a former Department of Government Efficiency staffer to remain in the city's juvenile detention center, rejecting requests for less restrictive detention.
The boy and girl, each 15, were charged in the Aug. 3 attack on Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old, as they were allegedly trying to carjack a vehicle in Northwest D.C. The attack was followed by President Trump announcing that he plans to take over the D.C. police and deploy the National Guard.
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U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro said Monday that the city protects violent youths from consequences.
"They go to family court, and they get to do yoga and arts and crafts," Pirro said. "Enough. It changes today."
The media and Democrats -- pardon the redundancy -- are taking their typical approach to the horrors they have created: Denying those horrors exist at all.
You're just imagining things again, Racists.
Kurt Schlichter
@KurtSchlichter
I'm sitting here stunned -- and I'm the most cynical guy in the universe -- that the Democrats have decided to dig in on the position that it is bad for Trump to stop crime in Washington DC because stopping crime as fascism and Washington DC doesn't have a crime problem anyway.
It's like the Democrats convened a council of renowned idiots to come up with the stupidest possible position, the one that's going to alienate the most normal people, and then the Democrats dig to defend it.
In one case, they point to carjackings falling in 2024 as proof of improvement.
The problem is: They fell in 2024 after an absolute all-time high in 2023, and they are still far, far above the levels before the left decided that a drug-dealer's heart attack required nothing short of making Crime Legal for Black People.
Jacki Kotkiewicz
@jackikotkiewicz
Carjackings have skyrocketed in D.C.:
2018: 148
2023: 957
That's a 547% increase.
But sure, let's entertain the idea 2023 was an outlier and compare to 2024, which Democrats love to point to:
497 carjackings in 2024 is still TRIPLE the number seen in 2018.
The Democrats and Media -- again I redundize myself -- cite the DC Metropolitan Police's own numbers to claim that crime has declined.
Except for murder, which is at a historic high. But is murder really a violent crime? I mean, it ends one person's suffering. Isn't that sort of a mercy killing?
But the DC MPD has been caught repeatedly faking their crime stats. For example, a home invasion will be categorized for their public reports as a simple trespass.
This is a lie, of course. The reason they do this is so they can classify most of their home invasions as "trespasses" and most of their carjackings as thefts. They keep downgrading the seriousness of their crimes so that in a few key areas they can "the numbers are down."
But they've actually been caught faking the stats:
CNN's fake fact checker and dweeby Regime propagandist Daniel Dale roused himself to "fact check" the proposition that crime is high in DC. He claims it's not, citing the cooked statistics of the MPD.
Greg Price
@greg_price11
Aug 11
In order to claim that crime in DC is "down," you have to ignore a) The former police commissioner who was suspended for fudging crime stats b) most people never get charged and are released onto the streets c) a lot of crime never gets reported d) the murder rate has doubled in the last decade and e) no one in their right mind would say it's safe to walk in southwest or anacostia at 11 pm.
They just can't stop lying. As you might know, DC is facing a lot of crime by underaged thugs. The thugs who beat up Big Balls and tried to carjack a woman's car were all 12-15, for example.
But DC has made it almost impossible to prosecute these Youths.
When MSNBC did their "fact" check, they "forgot" to include the juvenile offenders immunized from prosecution in their figures, as if a carjacking perpetrated by six violent young psychopaths doesn't "count" as crime.
Amazing:
All the Democrat Propagandists of the media are now repeating this same talking point, that the "real spike in crime" occurred for four hours on January 6, 2021.
So why is Trump sending the National Guard into DC? I don't know, but I think it might be Because Racism.
This may shock you: DC's "police chief" is a black woman who looks like a lesbian.
I know, I know: It seems impossible.
But even more shockingly: <a href="https://twitter.com/bonchieredstate/status/1955334906482987402" she="" was="" actually="" hired="" as="" a="" dei="" and="" "equity"="" advisor<=""> and then promoted to police captain based on nothing but her skin color and gender.
I guess I give DC points. At least she's not morbidly obese.