A Biden-appointed judge in the nation’s capital just released two teens from juvenile detention who attacked and beat DOGE staffer “Big Balls” during an attempted carjacking.
The Washington Post is reporting that Judge Kendra Briggs let the underage female suspect go to a youth shelter home and the male attacker to his actual house with certain restrictions.
Here’s the news:
Two teens charged in the attempted carjacking of a former U.S. DOGE Service staffer earlier this month will be moved into less restrictive detention on orders from a D.C. judge, despite a prosecutor’s objection.
The hearing took place as President Donald Trump’s D.C. police takeover stretches into its second week — an extraordinary flex of federal power ignited in part by the Aug. 3 attack on Edward Coristine, a software engineer who began work in the federal government as a protégé of Elon Musk.
Police arrested the 15-year-old boy and girl from Maryland after the attempted carjacking in Northwest Washington. The teens were being held at the Youth Services Center, or YSC, a facility in D.C. that holds young offenders before and after their court hearings as they wait to be placed in rehabilitation centers.
The teens appeared Thursday in front of Judge Kendra D. Briggs in a hearing in D.C. Superior Court that shed little light on the alleged crime or those accused of committing it.
The girl will move to a youth shelter house, the boy to his mother’s home. Both will be subjected to, among other restrictions, electronic monitoring and a 24-hour curfew — “school and home, that’s it,” Briggs said.
“The fact that this court is stepping you down from Youth Services Center is a serious step,” the judge told the teens, who each spoke so softly she often had to ask them to repeat themselves. The teens aren’t allowed any contact with each other.
Briggs said that if any violations occur, she’d immediately schedule an emergency hearing.
“It should be crystal clear,” she said.
The boy’s probation officer said they met Wednesday and the boy indicated that “he was doing well,” having no issues with staff but might have had an issue with another young person at the facility.
Briggs said she was sending the boy home instead of to the youth house, because the house is a long distance from his school, and traveling between the two would be difficult.
“I don’t want to put hardship on your family,” she said. The boy will have spot drug tests at his probation officer’s discretion and must stay out of D.C. except to appear in court, she added.
The teens must attend school. The boy’s started Wednesday and the girl’s begins next week — though, a prosecutor noted, her trial for the Maryland case is set to begin then, too.
The judge instructed both teens that they are not allowed to possess weapons — real or replica — and must stay out of vehicles unless they have explicit permission from the owner.
Soon after, the teens were escorted out of the courtroom, hands behind their backs.
They should both remain in juvenile detention. This is absurd. They didn’t shoplift or something minor. They tried to steal a car and then beat the DOGE staffer to the point of giving him a concussion. It was a violent crime!
All of this means that the judge is going to go soft on them, give them a slap on the wrist, and they’ll be back out on the street before you know it doing it again.