U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro: Kids Who Commit Violent Crimes Aren’t Going To Be Doing “Yoga And Arts & Crafts” Anymore
Jeanine Pirro, the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, said she will no longer tolerate sending kids under 18 who commit violent crimes to “family court,” as President Trump federalized the DC Police Department:
U.S. ATTORNEY JEANINE PIRRO: We all want the same thing. We all want a safe city. We want a safe capital. We want to be able to bring our families here. We want to be able to come and enjoy the history that makes this place great. Unfortunately, we are not in that position right now. And, Mr. President, I want to thank you for taking the step that we need right now to make criminals understand that they are not going to get away with it anymore. I’m not going to stand here and go over and over the cases. But what I can tell you is this: I see too much violent crime being committed by young punks who think that they can get together in gangs and crews and beat the hell out of you-or anyone else. They don’t care where they are. They can be in Dupont Circle, but they know that we can’t touch them. Why? Because the laws are weak. I can’t touch you if you’re 14, 15, 16, 17 years old and you have a gun. I convict someone of shooting another person with an illegal gun on a public bus-in the chest, intent to kill, I convict him. And you know what the judge gives him? Probation. Says, You should go to college. We need to go after the D.C. Council and their absurd laws. We need to get rid of this concept of no-cash bail. We need to recognize that the people who matter are the law-abiding citizens. And it starts today. But it’s not going to end today-because the President is going to do everything we need to do to make sure that these emboldened criminals understand: we see you, we’re watching you, and we’re going to change the law to catch you. And my final note is this: these kids understand that the jurisdiction is through the state attorney general. I did a poster of the young man from Dodge who was beaten bloody, with a severe concussion and a broken nose. And then I did a poster of what happens to those kids-because I can’t arrest them, I can’t prosecute them. They go to family court, and they get to do yoga and arts and crafts. Enough. It changes today.
