Justice?

 

 

I think it is pretty obvious to most that there is difference between peaceful protest and violent looting. It isn’t that way for a District Attorney in California.

Costa County DA Diana Becton made news this week when she stated a new policy which required police to consider if looters needed their loot before making an arrest.

She has asked cops to consider a number of questions before acting to save a business from looting. Things like:

Was the theft committed for financial gain or for personal need?

Not remarkably, Becton’s new policy was blasted by community leaders and the police. One mayor said there is no consideration for the small businessperson and the havoc wreaked on their personal lives by looters. Looters that might go free by only demonstrating need. One of the police unions inside Becton’s county said it was a brazen example of picking and choosing the types of crimes which will be prosecuted and ignoring the law as it is written in the statutes.

This DA has made news before. She charged a couple who painted over a message promoting Black Lives Matter in front of a courthouse. She charged them with a “hate crime.”

Justice is not served by prosecutors who look at everything through the lens of political ideology. The Greek statue of justice wears a blindfold for a reason…..

….to symbolize impartiality.