One of the most bizarre trends coming from the modern American left is the purist to decriminalize various crimes in an effort to bring more equity to the criminal justice system, regardless if this means harming African-American communities.
Recently Democrats in the state of Washington have moved on making legal penalties for commiting drive-by shootings less serious because these types of shootings are disproportionately done by African Americans. This is being pushed at a strange time as many Democrats are ramping up gun control efforts, it should also be noted that those being affected by these shootings are also disproportionately African American.
As reported by PJ Media:
So why are Washington Democrats offering up a bill in the state legislature to lower the penalties for drive-by shootings? Well, there’s woke and then there’s just plain stupid. Washington state Democrats are vying to become the best stupid they can be, bless ’em.
Currently, Washington law holds that a drive-by shooter should get an aggravated enhancement if he is arrested and prosecuted—and that’s a big if. Such an enhancement could land a drive-by murderer a life prison sentence.
But under a bill proposed for the upcoming Washington state legislature by white, woke ex-con state Rep. Tarra Simmons and her co-sponsor David Hackney, the reduction in penalties is a move toward “racial equity.” That’s right, drive-by shooting prosecutorial outcomes are racist. Never mind all the black and brown people who are the disproportionate victims of drive-by shootings.
KIRO-TV News reported last July that “80% of shooting victims in King County are people of color,” but the city put its “defund the police” dollars behind an effort to hire social workers as part of a “regional peacekeepers collective.” An additional $140 million was earmarked for “groups that work on BIPOC safety.”
What a bizarre time to follow American politics, proponents of equity policy and identity politics are defending criminals that overwhelmingly affect certain racial minorities in an effort to “defend” these same minority groups. This is also all while these same people scream and shout for more gun control and for the government to do something about crime. Strange indeed.
