The concept of “innocent until proven guilty” has long been recognized by the Supreme Court as a fundamental legal right of Americans, but don’t tell that to radical, left-wing Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner.
As much as Krasner touts the importance of constitutionality, one would think he knows this. But that hasn’t stopped him from playing judge and jury when mentioning confrontations in January between political agitators and protesters in Minneapolis and Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, falsely stating this week that their actions were the “criminal homicide of unarmed innocent people.”
“This is how it works,” Krasner said on Tuesday during a press conference at Philadelphia International Airport. “You commit crimes within the jurisdiction that is the city and county of Philadelphia, I prosecute you. That is how it works. No, I don’t take a phone call from the president, saying, ‘Let him go.’ No, the president cannot pardon you. I’ll say it again: the president cannot pardon you.”
It was a baffling display of anger, resentment, vindictiveness, and arguably, evil, as it marked the second time Krasner held an impromptu press conference and disparaged ICE officers. In February, while attending a partisan “ICE Out” press conference in Philadelphia, Krasner threatened to “hunt down” ICE officers like “they hunted down Nazis.” Filled with left-wing rage that more resembled prosecutors of the show trials in the 1930s Soviet Union than a U.S. district attorney, Krasner created a legal controversy that didn’t exist, as there have not been any known physical confrontations between Philadelphians and ICE officers.
“And yes, I will put you in handcuffs, I will put you in a courtroom, and if necessary, I will put you in a jail cell if you decide to make the terrazzo floor of this airport, anything like what you did in the streets of Minneapolis, which involved criminal homicide of unarmed innocent people,” Krasner asserted — for absolutely no reason whatsoever as it is physically impossible to use an automobile in an airport building and then drive it at ICE officers.
Furthermore, despite the court holding in In re Winship that the due process clauses of the Fifth and 14th Amendments ensure anyone accused of a crime is protected “against conviction except upon proof beyond a reasonable doubt of every fact necessary to constitute the crime with which he is charged,” Krasner declared ICE officers guilty. It’s a menacing pattern he has regularly demonstrated when taunting his political opponents, rivals, or those who do things of which he disagrees.
His demonization of the American citizens who are federal officers of ICE is abhorrent, inflammatory, and unethical. Moreover, it is a verbal denigration of those who risk their personal welfare to protect innocent Americans from violent illegal immigrants. This is in addition to the incendiary agenda-driven illegal immigrant rabble-rousers throwing Molotov cocktails and bricks at them, encountering snipers, and using automobiles as weapons to cause physical harm.
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“To most Americans ICE officers are heroes as they put their lives on the line to arrest murderers, rapists, pedophiles, gang members, and terrorists,” acting DHS Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis told me.
“Attacks and demonization of ICE law enforcement are wrong,” Bis said. “Because of smears like this our ICE officers are now facing a more than 1,300% increase in assaults against them as they put their lives on the line to arrest murderers, rapists, pedophiles, gang members, and terrorists.”
Democrats like Krasner should be praising ICE officers, not threatening to jail them. Krasner’s radical ideologies are the true threat to our constitutional liberties, not federal officers implementing immigration law — laws that Democrats such as Krasner want to abolish, which is at the root of his disdain for ICE, as it is all Democrats. The totalitarianism he consistently espouses is an indictment of contemporary Democrats. His rhetoric is offensive, loathsome, and utterly despicable. Krasner’s inflammatory comments and attempts to manipulate laws, ethics, and politics are a danger to American liberties and an affront to our freedoms.