{"id":1705904,"date":"2022-10-21T12:24:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T16:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1705904"},"modified":"2022-10-21T12:33:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T16:33:39","slug":"soros-backed-philly-da-says-crime-concerns-are-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/soros-backed-philly-da-says-crime-concerns-are-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Soros-Backed Philly DA Says Crime Concerns Are Racist"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fsoros-backed-philly-da-says-crime-concerns-are-racist%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=1705904&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=\"speakable\">Speaking from the Pennsylvania State Capitol Friday morning, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner claimed Republicans\u2019 focus on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">city crime<\/a> ahead of the November midterm elections amounts to &#8220;racist messaging.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Krasner, 61, made the comments while holding a press conference on the Capitol steps to address the state <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/state-and-local\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House Select Committee&#8217;s<\/a> investigation of his office and its enforcement of criminal law.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/640\/320\/KRASNER-TODAY.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner addresses a South Street mass shooting at an unrelated press conference over the summer.\u00a0\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner addresses a South Street mass shooting at an unrelated press conference over the summer.\u00a0<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(FOX 29 Philadelphia)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The progressive DA said he refused to comply with the committee\u2019s request to testify under oath behind closed doors, with no access to the public.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The committee refused his requests to testify and answer questions at a public hearing, Krasner alleged, &#8220;because this political stunt ostensibly involves matters of very significant and very important public concern and because the votes cast by Philadelphians in overwhelming numbers in two elections are at stake.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/philadelphia-police-hunt-murder-suspect-previously-exonerated-2012-murder-conviction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>PHILADELPHIA POLICE HUNT FOR MURDER SUSPECT PREVIOUSLY EXONERATED FROM 2012 MURDER CONVICTION<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Krasner then accused Republican lawmakers of focusing on rising crime in Philadelphia at the expense of their own districts, saying it was the party playbook to &#8220;point a finger at large, diverse cities and say large diverse cities are lawless.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You ever heard that before?&#8221; Krasner asked before recounting Richard Nixon\u2019s 1968 campaign pledge to tackle &#8220;lawlessness&#8221; in &#8220;one large, diverse city after another.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/640\/320\/GettyImages-1191069244.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner reacts while being mentioned by Danielle Outlaw at a press conference announcing her as the new police commissioner on Dec. 30, 2019, in Philadelphia.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner reacts while being mentioned by Danielle Outlaw at a press conference announcing her as the new police commissioner on Dec. 30, 2019, in Philadelphia.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Mark Makela\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;What we see here is the same old playbook, which is about coded and racist messaging,&#8221; Krasner said. &#8220;It\u2019s about blaming the biggest city in Pennsylvania with the most diverse population for having the same national struggle that we have with gun violence everywhere and even having increases that are less the committee\u2019s counties.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;There is no integrity to this process. If there was \u2013 and I would join them and help them every step of the way \u2013 they would look at the entire state, and they would look at some real solutions and something that can be done to make it better.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Pennsylvania House voted last month that Krasner should be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/pennsylvania-lawmakers-vote-hold-philadelphia-da-larry-krasner-contempt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">held in contempt<\/a> after he failed to obey subpoenas that the House Select Committee issued in August. The committee said that Krasner twice refused to accept hand-delivery of subpoenas and that his lawyers said they would not comply with one they had received electronically.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products?pid=AppArticleLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia, like much of the U.S. in recent years, has seen a general uptick in crime. This year alone, for instance, there have been more than 1,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/philadelphia-reaches-1000-carjackings-first-time-ever\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported carjackings<\/a>, an all-time high.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<i>Fox News\u2019 Ronn Blitzer contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-bio\">\n<p>Bradford Betz is a Fox News Digital breaking reporter covering crime, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">political issues, <\/a>and much more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking from the Pennsylvania State Capitol Friday morning, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner claimed Republicans\u2019 focus on city crime ahead of the November midterm elections amounts to &#8220;racist messaging.&#8221;Krasner, 61,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1705907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1705904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1705907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}