Soros also repeats a claim — first popularized by California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), who backed Gascón — that murder rates are highest in Republican-run states, ignoring the fact that they are highest in Democrat-run cities.
Read the full op-ed here.
Watch: MMA Fighter Takes Down Man Allegedly Sucker-Punching Random People in New York City
A mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter subdued a man who was allegedly sucker-punching people randomly in lower Manhattan’s SoHo area.
Ro Malabanan, 44, had exited the subway and was walking on Broadway and Prince street to his boxing instructor job when he claimed to have seen a homeless man, later identified as Samuel Frazier, 28, sucker punch a man on the side of his head.
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When Malabanan checked to see if the victim was okay, two other guys approached and claimed to have seen the man attacking other people on Broadway, including an elderly person.
Malabanan, who has a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu and is an actor, explained in a video he posted on Instagram that he started following Frazier and sought to subdue him.
“My jiu-jitsu instincts just kicked in. I jumped on his back,” Malabanan explained. “He tried to swing me off then, but for those of you in the know, a seatbelt position dragged him down to the floor, and I immediately took his back and pinned him to the ground.”
As Malabanan pinned the alleged attacker on the ground, other people approached, claiming to have been attacked by Frazier, with some kicking the subdued suspect, according to the MMA fighter.
Malabanan told them to stop attacking Frazier and call the police instead. The boxing instructor recounted that he checked the alleged attacker’s pockets for dangerous weapons, such as knives or razors.
As Frazier was pinned, footage from bystanders showed the subdued suspect saying to Malabanan, “They were walking into me.”
To which MMA fighter replied, “That’s bullshit, bro. You still don’t punch people in the fucking face for no reason.”
New York Police Department officers later arrived and took Frazier into custody, where he was charged with two counts of assault, the New York Post reported. Authorities also noted that Frazier is homeless.
Malabanan finished his video by warning viewers that there may be more people out there who may seek to attack people randomly.
“A lot of crazies out there right now in the streets, so just please be careful. They will sucker punch you, they will take out their frustration,” Malabanan said. “It is hot in New York right now. Hot temperatures equal hot heads, and some people are just looking for a reason to cause trouble.”
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As Crime Soars, Democratic Voters Turn on Left-Wing Prosecutors
Democratic voters are turning on left-wing prosecutors and congressional candidates amid a nationwide crime surge.
Late last month, Maryland voters ousted Baltimore state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby (D.), who backed decarceration and defunding police even as the city’s homicide rate skyrocketed. Mosby was only the latest "reform-minded" prosecutor to get the boot. San Francisco residents removed District Attorney Chesa Boudin (D.) in June after he crusaded against policing and prisons as "failed responses" to crime. Los Angeles County district attorney George Gascón (D.), who has supported "shrinking the size and the role of policing," is on the verge of a recall.
The purge is the latest sign of voters’ dissatisfaction with rising crime. The FBI in 2020 recorded its highest ever single-year increase in homicides. A year later, 12 Democrat-run U.S. cities saw the most murders in their history. The uptick in crime particularly galvanized minority voters in San Francisco, whose neighborhoods were racked with drug overdose deaths, robberies, and murders.
According to former speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, this type of backlash was inevitable.
"People will only be victims for a limited period before they get fed up," he told the Washington Free Beacon.
Progressive prosecutors aren’t the only soft-on-crime figures getting the boot. Across the country, nearly half-a-dozen Democratic candidates lost their elections because of their far-left criminal justice agendas. Texas voters chose moderate Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar over Squad-backed Jessica Cisneros in a June primary.
Later that month, Illinois voters booted left-wing Rep. Marie Newman (D.) from office and voted against progressive candidate Kina Collins. Ana María Archila, a favorite of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), lost a bid for New York lieutenant governor months after she had said the Empire State needed to "divest resources from police, prosecutors, and jails."
Rather than acknowledging voters' concerns, progressive prosecutors are trying to blame conservatives for their troubles. Boudin decried "right-wing billionaires" who "outspent us three to one" after his recall. But campaign filings show some of the largest donations to Boudin’s recall effort came from wealthy Bay Area Democratic donors.
The left-wing billionaire George Soros has contributed more than $40 million in the past decade to install liberal prosecutors in half of the United States’ largest jurisdictions. Many moved quickly after their election to reverse long standing bail and sentencing guidelines for most low-level offenses, hoping to reduce incarceration.
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Monday, Soros defended his reform prosecutor movement, citing a study that he said proves "no connection between the election of reform-minded prosecutors and local crime rates." He blamed a "rise in mental illness" and "gun trafficking" for the crime spike, even as he noted "a pullback in policing in the wake of public criminal-justice reform protests."
But Rafael Mangual, the head of the Manhattan Institute’s Policing and Public Safety Initiative, told the Free Beacon that the study isn’t the silver bullet Soros claims. The authors said they could not "rule out large increases or decreases in any particular type of crime," and did not focus solely on the most radical criminal justice policies. All told, Mangual says the study "doesn’t prove decarceration works."
Rising crime is on the ballot in a number of upcoming elections. State Sen. Alessandra Biaggi is running against DCCC chairman Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney in New York’s 17th district. During the height of racial justice protests in 2020, Biaggi supported efforts to "defund the police" and called police officers "soulless." Recent polls show her trailing Maloney by double digits.
Still, law enforcement groups aren't ready to declare victory over progressive prosecutors yet. Jason Johnson, president of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, told the Free Beacon the battle against left-wing criminal justice prosecutors and candidates won’t be easily won. In a recent Maryland election, an unknown public defender boosted by nearly $1 million in Soros funding almost unseated a four-term Democratic prosecutor.
"While it is encouraging to see that San Francisco and Baltimore voters have voted to end the tenure of their radical progressive prosecutors, I’m not sure this signals a broad rejection of these policies," Johnson said. "It seems to me that most voters are still unaware of the harmful effects of the decarceration and depolicing movements."
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Billionaire left-wing mega-donor George Soros has written an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal justifying his support for electing radical prosecutors across the country amid a rise in violent crime and recall elections by angry urban residents.
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George Soros: Some murder rates 'rising fastest' in GOP-led states
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George Soros Defends Radical Prosecutors in WSJ Op-ed
Billionaire left-wing mega-donor George Soros has written an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal justifying his support for electing radical prosecutors across the country amid a rise in violent crime and recall elections by angry urban residents.
Since 2018, Soros has been responsible for electing dozens of prosecutors in big-city jurisdictions, often ousting centrist Democrats. Their arrival has been accompanied by spikes in violent crime and social disorder, prompting an urban exodus.
In June, voters in the left-wing stronghold of San Francisco ousted radical prosecutor Chesa Boudin in a rare recall vote. Now, voters in Los Angeles are poised to hold a similar recall election to oust Soros-backed prosecutor George Gascón.
In his op-ed, Soros attempts to defend his support for what he calls “reform” prosecutors, describing the “false choice” between “justice” (by which he means left-wing “social justice”) land public safety:
We need to acknowledge that black people in the U.S. are five times as likely to be sent to jail as white people. That is an injustice that undermines our democracy.
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In recent years, reform-minded prosecutors and other law-enforcement officials around the country have been coalescing around an agenda that promises to be more effective and just. This agenda includes prioritizing the resources of the criminal-justice system to protect people against violent crime. It urges that we treat drug addiction as a disease, not a crime. And it seeks to end the criminalization of poverty and mental illness.
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Serious scholars researching causes behind the recent increase in crime have pointed to other factors: a disturbing rise in mental illness among young people due to the isolation imposed by Covid lockdowns, a pullback in policing in the wake of public criminal-justice reform protests, and increases in gun trafficking. Many of the same people who call for more-punitive criminal-justice policies also support looser gun laws.
Soros also repeats a claim — first popularized by California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), who backed Gascón — that murder rates are highest in Republican-run states, ignoring the fact that they are highest in Democrat-run cities.
Read the full op-ed here.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. His recent book, RED NOVEMBER, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
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