{"id":1212840,"date":"2022-01-12T23:49:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T04:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1212840"},"modified":"2022-01-12T23:49:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T04:49:21","slug":"exclusive-rep-lee-zeldin-gov-kathy-hochul-manhattan-da-alvin-bragg-are-prioritizing-criminals-over-law-abiding-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-rep-lee-zeldin-gov-kathy-hochul-manhattan-da-alvin-bragg-are-prioritizing-criminals-over-law-abiding-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive\u2014 Rep. Lee Zeldin: Gov. Kathy Hochul, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg Are &#039;Prioritizing&#039; Criminals over &#039;Law-Abiding Citizens&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-rep-lee-zeldin-gov-kathy-hochul-manhattan-da-alvin-bragg-are-prioritizing-criminals-over-law-abiding-citizens%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1212840&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg prioritize criminals over law-abiding citizens, Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), a Republican candidate for governor in New York, said on Tuesday\u2019s edition of SiriusXM\u2019s <em>Breitbart News Daily<\/em> with special guest host Jerome Hudson.<\/p>\n<p>Zeldin remarked on Bragg\u2019s recently imposed left-wing decrees to reform arrest and sentencing policies. Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/crime\/2022\/01\/04\/soros-linked-manhattan-da-alvin-bragg-no-incarceration-except-for-homicide-and-a-few-other-cases\/\">reported<\/a>, \u201cNewly-installed Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg instructed staff on Monday that his office will not seek pre-trial detention or prison sentences for crimes other than homicide, public corruption, and a few other exceptional cases.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19414778\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Alvin-Bragg-ap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19414778\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Alvin-Bragg-ap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg-elect, a former top deputy to New York\u2019s attorney general, speaks to supporters in New York, Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021. (AP Photo\/Craig Ruttle)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Zeldin stated, \u201cThe New York State Constitution gives the governor of the state of New York the authority to remove a district attorney if they refuse to enforce the law. It\u2019s in the New York State Constitution. I called on Gov. Hochul \u2014 the person who took over as governor after Andrew Cuomo stepped aside \u2014 called on Gov. Hochul, local, to remove Alvin Bragg.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I was the governor today, I\u2019d be pursuing that myself because any district attorney \u2014 if you want to run to be the district attorney \u2014 you\u2019re running to enforce the law,\u201d he added. \u201cIf you want to back up the criminals and keep them out of prison instead, go be a defense attorney.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>He continued, \u201cYou have a job to do when you take an oath that you\u2019re going to enforce the law, and when you are the DA, that doesn\u2019t stand for \u2018defense attorney.\u2019 That\u2019s \u2018district attorney.\u2019 You have a job to prosecute when crimes are committed. You have to have the back of NYPD when they\u2019re doing their jobs. You have to have the back of law-abiding citizens, not prioritizing, instead, the criminals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bragg\u2019s arrest and sentencing policies will incentivize criminality relative to the previous status quo, Zeldin warned.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18273402\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1342504608.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18273402\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1342504608.png\" alt=\"Kathy Hochul speaks onstage during Global Citizen Live, New York on September 25, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo\/Getty Images for Global Citizen)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathy Hochul speaks onstage during Global Citizen Live, New York on September 25, 2021, in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo\/Getty Images for Global Citizen)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>He said, \u201cIf you\u2019re waking up this morning in New York City and you want to go break some laws and get away with it, under that new memo, you can commit whatever type of traffic infractions you want around the city. You can fare-jump, not pay your fare, go ride the subway for a while. If some cop somewhere stops you, you can resist arrest, and you\u2019re not going to be prosecuted for that. The list goes on of all sorts of different crimes that the district attorney is saying, \u2018I\u2019m not even going to prosecute at all,\u2019 and then there\u2019s a whole bunch of other crimes in that memo saying that an armed robbery is going to be prosecuted as a petty larceny.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>Breitbart News Daily broadcasts live on SiriusXM Patriot 125 weekdays from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Eastern<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg prioritize criminals over law-abiding citizens, Rep. 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