Murder victims' families call for ouster of Philadelphia's Soros-backed DA

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/apr/17/families-murder-victims-
seek-ouster-george-soros-b/

Crime victims have joined the fight to oust Philadelphia District Attorney
Larry Krasner in his reelection bid next month.

They are telling their stories of what they describe as Mr. Krasner’s
indifference to their plight in a television ad campaign launched this
week by the Protect Our Police PAC, a group of current and former law
enforcement officers focused on defeating Mr. Krasner, who they say made
the city less safe with his far-left criminal justice agenda.

“He cares more about the criminals than he does about the victims,”
Shaki’ra Wilson-Burroughs says in one ad. Ms. Wilson-Burroughs’ brother,
Sgt. Robert Wilson III, was a Philadelphia police officer gunned down in
the line of duty in 2015.

Mr. Krasner, who this year failed to win the endorsement of the
Philadelphia Democratic Party, is one of a handful of top prosecutors
pursuing a left-wing criminal justice agenda. They took office with
campaigns bankrolled by political action committees backed by billionaire
liberal activist George Soros.

These prosecutors, all of whom POP PAC seeks to unseat, argue that the
criminal justice system is suffused with racism and, to make amends,
pledge to limit charging and sentencing of offenders.

Mr. Krasner, 60, has warned voters not to return to the “injustices of the
past.”

His campaign did not respond to a request for comment about crime victims
speaking out in the TV ads.

In the May 18 primary in the overwhelmingly Democratic city, Mr. Krasner
will face Carlos Vega, 64, who spent 35 years as an assistant district
attorney in Philadelphia before becoming one of the dozens Mr. Krasner
fired as soon as he took office.

“I know many local mothers whose sons were murdered and they are seeing
their cases unravel,” said Maria Martinez, whose son, Brian Lawhon II,
died after he was viciously beaten at a 7-Eleven in 2019. “Some guy gets
off, it’s like deja vu. You think losing your child would be the hardest
part, but dealing with Mr. Krasner has been just as bad.”

Police charged a 26-year-old White man with murder when Mr. Lawhon died
from his injuries at a local hospital. But Ms. Martinez told The
Washington Times that Mr. Krasner’s office worked hard to lower the
charges to aggravated assault.

She recently learned from a friend that the case had been continued. She
said that when she reached out to the assistant district attorney he
acknowledged that was true.

“He said he was sorry he’d forgotten to notify me and, at the end, said
sort of ‘oh, by the way, I’m not handling your case anymore,” Ms. Martinez
said. “He gave me the name of a woman who I called and was told she was on
vacation. That was three weeks ago. I haven’t heard a thing.”

Philadelphia is not the only city in which PACs awash in Mr. Soros’ money
have spent heavily to elect left-wing prosecutors. Mr. Krasner, for
example, had no prosecutorial experience when one of Mr. Soros’ myriad
Truth and Justice PACs showered him with more than $1.2 million.





Before the 2017 race, no candidate for Philadelphia district attorney had
spent $1 million on a campaign, records show.

Similar large amounts of money from Truth and Justice PACs backed
prosecutorial bids in Los Angeles, St. Louis, Chicago and many smaller
locations in at least 8 states.

In those big cities, violent crime has spiked to record levels. Violent
crime also spiked across the country and in other cities.

In St. Louis, the top prosecutor funded by Mr. Soros’ PACs, Kimberly
Gardner, was re-elected last November. In Los Angeles, where Mr. Soros-
backed district attorney George Gascon took office in January, a recall
effort led by crime victims’ families has been launched.

Another POP PAC ad that debuted this week, titled “Dangerous
Policies/Deadly Consequences,” highlights how skyrocketing crime in the
city has most harmed the very people Mr. Krasner claims to champion.

“Black and brown communities have suffered the most,” the ad says over a
graphic highlighting violent incident rates.

In 2020, Philadelphia suffered 499 homicides, the most it had seen in 30
years, and the 2,240 people shot was a record. So far in 2021, the gun
violence continues unabated, with the city’s 146 homicides as of April 15
an increase of 33% from last year.

Terri O’Connor’s husband, James, was a Philadelphia cop killed while
executing a murder warrant in 2020. When Mr. Krasner tried to visit the
hospital where Mr. O’Connor had been taken after his shooting,
Philadelphia officers barred his way and refused to let him enter.

“He never called me,” Mrs. O’Connor told The Times.

They were high school sweethearts whose eldest son, James O’Connor V, is
now a Philadelphia police officer.

The Justice Department took over her husband’s case, which Mrs. O’Connor
described as an enormous improvement. But in her opinion, there should be
no case because his four alleged killers had at one time all been facing
charges, some of them murder, but been released because of Mr. Krasner‘s
bail policies, according to former U.S. Attorney William McSwain and other
critics of Mr. Krasner’s tenure.

“If Krasner doesn’t let them out my husband would still be alive,” she
said.



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