Three career prosecutors resigned from the Justice Department over a highly unusual post-verdict plea agreement struck by the Trump-appointed acting U.S. attorney in Los Angeles. The plea agreement comes in a case where a sheriff’s deputy was convicted back in February of using excessive force against a Black woman.
“A plea agreement filed late Thursday says if Trevor Kirk pleads guilty to misdemeanor deprivation of rights under color of law, the U.S. Attorney’s Office will ‘move to strike the jury’s finding’ that he injured his victim, which made his crime a felony,” Meghann Cuniff first reported.
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The plea deal sets up a dramatic downward departure in sentencing from what Kirk faced with the felony conviction, Cunduff reports:
Kirk faced about nine years in prison under U.S. Sentencing Commission guidelines for his felony conviction, but his misdemeanor conviction carries a maximum of one year. However, Essayli and Keenan agreed to recommend only one year of probation. They also aren’t barring him from working in law enforcement.
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Vigilante justice is back on the menu, boys.
Video of the piggies in action.
Love how she berated them the whole time, you know that pissed them off so much.
When the justice department becomes political it means the people are the only ones left who can bring justice.
This is a signal to law enforcement that brutality is endorsed and that they will be protected.
