[AMGREATNESS] In a blistering statement Thursday, United States Attorney William M. McSwain lashed out at the District Attorney of Philadelphia, saying his "vile rhetoric" and lax law enforcement policies were putting police in danger.Larry Krasner, the Philly D.A., is a far-left former civil rights defense attorney who has sued police more than 75 times, and has defended far-left Occupy Philly activists and Black Lives Matter agitators. Left-wing hedge fund billionaire George Soros
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helped put Krasner in office by donating an overwhelming $1.45 million to an independent political action committee backing his campaign in 2017.
After a violent suspect with an extensive criminal history shot and injured six coppers Wednesday, McSwain said he was "fed up" with the culture of disrespect" Krasner has promoted.
Incredibly, according to a local CBS Philly news hound, while police were still dodging bullets on Wednesday, hundreds of residents were laughing and yelling at them from the sidelines. At least once, police had to pepper-spray unruly onlookers.
"There is a new culture of disrespect for law enforcement in this City that is promoted and championed by District Attorney Larry Krasner ‐ and I am fed up with it," McSwain wrote in the strongly worded statement.
It started with chants at the DA’s victory party ‐ chants of "F*** the police" and "No good cops in a racist system."
We’ve now endured over a year and a half of the worst kinds of slander against law enforcement ‐ the DA routinely calls police and prosecutors corrupt and racist, even "war criminals" that he compares to Nazis.
This vile rhetoric puts our police in danger. It disgraces the Office of the District Attorney. And it harms the good people in the City of Philadelphia and rewards the wicked.
The alleged shooter last night, Maurice Hill, is a previously convicted felon with a long rap sheet. We have plenty of criminal laws in this City ‐ but what we don’t have is robust enforcement by the District Attorney. Instead, among other things, we have diversionary programs for gun offenses, the routine downgrading of charges for violent crime, and entire sections of the criminal code that are ignored.
The criminal laws in this City ‐ and especially the existing gun laws and drug laws ‐ should be aggressively enforced in order to protect the public and the police. My Office is doing all that we can. We have prosecuted 70% more violent crime cases this year than we did last year, in response to the District Attorney’s lawlessness. But it is now time for the District Attorney and his enablers to stop making excuses for criminals. It is time for accountability. It is time to support law enforcement and to put the good people of this City first.