The man accused of beating an Asian American woman during a broad-daylight hate-crime attack in New York City on Monday was on lifetime parole for murdering his mother years earlier in front of his 5-year-old sister. Brandon Elliot, 38, was arrested Wednesday in Manhattan. He has been charged with attempted assault as a hate crime, assault as a hate crime, assault and attempted assault.
He is but one of hundreds, if not thousands, of examples of why our astonishingly lenient criminal justice system is failing us. In any other country, Elliot would have been executed; he would at least still be in jail on a life sentence. But he was released on parole? He was sentenced to 15 years to life in March of 2002 for the murder of his mother and released in November of 2019... not even two years ago. Already, he has committed this ugly assault!
Due to our lax and ineffective system, crime rates are sky-high and our prisons are overcrowded. Our answer to the overcrowding has been to let prisoners out earlier and earlier. In other countries with more more severe sentences, crime is substantially less than in the United States. Bleeding heart liberals have turned us into the laughing stock of the criminal world!
They used to say, "Commit a crime; do the time." Now, it's "Do the crime, one more time!"
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