Big surprise: The man who killed a pregnant woman in Seattle was a convicted felon
Zachary Faria
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Soft-on-crime policies put people’s lives in danger, and the rapid spread of those policies over the past couple of years has made several Democrat-run cities incredibly dangerous.
Eina Kwon and her unborn child are the most recent victims of this in Seattle. Kwon was 32 weeks pregnant when she was executed at a stoplight in broad daylight. She was shot four times, including once in the head. Her husband was also injured in the shooting but survived. Doctors were able to deliver her baby in an emergency C-section, but the baby died soon after.
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When it was reported that a pregnant woman was shot and killed in broad daylight in an unprovoked attack, it was only a matter of time before it was revealed that the killer had a criminal record. Sure enough, the killer, Cordell Goosby, is a convicted felon in Illinois. The gun he used to kill Kwon was also stolen.
Goosby’s criminal history includes drug charges, weapons charges, and theft. He reportedly has mental health issues. The attack was entirely unprovoked, committed with a stolen weapon, and was entirely avoidable. As a convicted felon with weapons charges on his record, Goosby was very clearly a threat to the public, with or without the mental health issues. And yet he was free to make his way from Cook County, Illinois (home of Chicago), to Seattle and execute a woman in broad daylight.
As has been made clear time and time again, this is what left-wing criminal justice reform looks like. Chicago’s abysmal track record on crime under mayors Lori Lightfoot and Brandon Johnson has been defined by threats to the community being released and homicides being ignored. The entire state of Illinois is also in on the pro-criminal policy, eliminating cash bail with a law that is now before the state Supreme Court.
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Seattle is part of King County, whose top prosecutor is Leesa Manion. Manion believes that juvenile criminals who commit felony assaults and robberies shouldn’t be put through the court system. Manion lives in the same worldview of “equity” and “implicit bias” as other soft-on-crime policies, viewing the “justice” part of the criminal justice system with more hostility than the “criminal” part.
You can take your pick on who to blame, whether it be Seattle, Chicago, or both, but the fact is that Goosby should never have been out on the street and Kwon and her child should still be alive. They were killed as a result of the pro-crime, pro-criminal policies that let dangerous criminals such as Goosby loose and create an atmosphere of lawlessness that greenlights their behavior. Worst of all, this won’t be the last tragic case of a violent criminal committing a crime like this, because no one has learned lessons in keeping people safe.