Liberal newspaper slams woke DA in scathing op-ed
Journalist Andy Brehm added: 'Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty is eclipsing even the self-aggrandizing Gov. Tim Walz in the hefty amount of national coverage she's getting these days. And it's not making Minnesota look very good.' Brehm said it was 'hard to believe' that Moriarty was still using an 'equity-focused' charging policy that considers the race of suspects before deciding to how to proceed. Brehm was outraged that Moriarty, a progressive Democrat , has decided to adjudicate the law using 'dermatology' rather than 'impartiality'.
Moriarty's alleged racist antics have made her office the target of a Department of Justice probe. And while Brehm says he thinks some of the Trump's moves against wokeness have been vengeful, he is fully supportive of the DoJ decision to come after Moriarty. Also highlighted was Moriarty's decision to let a woke serial Tesla vandal off with keying six cars and causing $21,000 of damage, while pursing murder charges against a cop who lawfully killed a suspect.
Last month, Moriarty dropped charges against Tesla vandal Dylan Bryan Adams and instead let him enter a diversion program, which may let him keep his job working for Democrat Governor Tim Walz. She broke her own rules with Adams, as Hennepin County Attorney's Office says diversion programs are only suitable for property criminals who've caused less than $5,000 of damage. A woman who keyed a single car was charged with a felony by Moriarty around the same time, with locals accusing her of tacitly-supporting attacks on Tesla cars because owner Elon Musk is a huge figure in the MAGA movement.
'Apparently, if crime is committed in the name of the right left-wing cause in Hennepin County, it need not be punished as harshly,' Brehm wrote. And the progressive prosecutor certainly wasn't in the mood to display the grace she showed with Tesla vandal Adams in the case of state trooper Ryan Londregan. She tried to charge him with murder and manslaughter for shooting dead Ricky Cobb II, a black man killed in July 2023 after he tried to drag Londregan's partner away during a traffic stop.
But it has printed a series of scathing pieces on Moriarty in recent weeks as her behavior turned the city of Minneapolis into an American laughing stock. Minneapolis was rocked by the murder of George Floyd, a black man, by white police officer Derek Chauvin in May 2020. Floyd's killing turbocharged the Black Lives Matter movement and saw huge swathes of Minneapolis destroyed by nights of rioting and firebombing.
The Democrat-leaning city swung hard left in the wake of Floyd's killing and at one point was even on track to completely dismantle its police force. But soaring violent crime, a fading economy and an increased reputation for anarchy and chaos has seen the city's more extreme progressive decisions criticized in recent months.
Moriarty won election in November 2022 and has not said whether she will run for re-election in 2026. But Brehms and others have called for Minneapolis locals to follow the example of other cities like San Francisco and Oakland by booting her out of office should she run again.
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