Surprise! Another high-profile crime committed by a violent career criminal
Zachary Faria
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Unsurprisingly, another high-profile crime story can be traced back to someone with a long, violent criminal history who probably should not have been out of jail in the first place.
Kendrid Hamlin, the man who attacked Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN) in an elevator in her apartment complex, has a criminal history stretching back to 2015 when he would have been around 18 years old. Hamlin has been convicted of “engaging in a lewd, obscene sexual act,” stealing from a supermarket, entering a woman’s home without permission and stealing her laptop, and biting, spitting on, and kicking police officers.
REP. ANGIE CRAIG SAYS SHE WAS ‘VERY LUCKY’ NOT TO BE SERIOUSLY INJURED IN ATTACK
Hamlin was sentenced to just 35 days in jail after assaulting the officers. His release date was two weeks before he attacked Craig. Hamlin punched Craig in the face and grabbed her near the neck when she refused to let him into her apartment.
The incident was so jarring that Craig and 30 other House Democrats decided to brave the accusations of racism by members of their own party in voting to override the city’s new proposed criminal justice reforms. The D.C. Council was trying to water down sentences for violent criminals even more than the current standards that allowed Hamlin to be out on the streets one month after assaulting police officers.
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This isn’t the first time a violent career criminal made the headlines in a soft-on-crime Democratic city, and it won’t be the last. The Democratic Party’s commitment to empowering criminals and putting them back on the street as quickly as possible has made normal D.C. residents unsafe for years. The only difference now is that it has finally reached the politicians.
Maybe, eventually, Democrats will recognize that this is unsustainable and actually do something about it. Or maybe Hamlin will be back out on the street in another month, attacking some other member of Congress or a cabinet secretary. Or perhaps he will just kill some poor, less important person whose life doesn’t matter at all to the liberals who run D.C.