LA's District Attorney George Gascon has declined to charge Edan On, the man who injured several people in an hours-long brutal attack on UCLA students' pro-Palestine encampment last month. On was featured by name in a CNN report after his mother celebrated his crimes. www.cnn.com/2024/06/21/u...
It always gives me whiplash to see a prosecutor, a group that is categorically incredibly creative at turning anything into a felony, suddenly unable to frame an armed assault as more than a misdemeanor.
Are we surprised? A lot of "prosecutorial descretion" was used as a BS excuse by tons of DAs across the country during 2020 to not bother charging or pursuing charges against right wing counter protestors who attacked BLM marches.
See: Larry Arnold Davis, aka The St. Petersburg Gunman in Florida