Black Rolebot DA Alvin Bragg Continues to Hook Up White Liberals at the Expense of Blacks: Racist Suspect Woman who Plowed into BLM Protestors Gets a 'No Jail Time' Plea Deal, Community Service
/From [HERE] A white woman who plowed her car into Black Lives Matter protestors in Midtown was berated by demonstrators outside Manhattan court Monday after she cut a sweetheart plea deal with prosecutors, dodging jail time.
Kathleen Casillo, 53, faced seven years in prison if convicted in the December 2020 incident that left six people injured — but was instead sentenced to five hours of community service as part of the agreement with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
Casillo was in her black BMW sedan with her 29-year-old daughter on Dec. 11, 2020 when she drove into a BLM protest on 39th Street and Third Avenue.
Under the deal, Casillo pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment, a misdemeanor, but that will get knocked down to a mere disorderly conduct violation if she fulfills her sentence and stays out of trouble for six months, prosecutors and her lawyer said.
“You f—ed people’s lives up, you’re a criminal,” one demonstrator screamed at Casillo following the plea hearing in Manhattan Supreme Court. “You’re a criminal and you have not taken responsibility.”
The woman slammed Casillo’s claims that she had hit the gas in panic because the protestors were being “aggressive.”
“They didn’t do anything,” the demonstrator said. “My husband’s back was turned when you hit him and sent him flying into the air. His back was turned. How was that aggressive?”
But Casillo’s defense lawyer said justice had been served.
MR. BRAGG CAME INTO OFFICE VOWING NOT TO CHARGE NUMEROUS NON-VIOLENT CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER. BUT HE MUST’VE MEANT TO PROMISE ‘NOT TO CHARGE WHITE FOLKS’ BECAUSE SOMEBODY IN HIS OFFICE IS FILLING UP MANHATTAN COURTROOMS AND RIKERS ISLAND JAIL WITH BLACK PEOPLE. BOB GANGI, DIRECTOR OF THE POLICE REFORM ORGANIZING PROJECT AND LONGTIME COURT WATCHER, SAYS HE’S SEEN LITTLE CHANGE FROM HIS PERSPECTIVE IN THE BACK ROW OF MANHATTAN ARRAIGNMENTS.
“THEY WERE STILL PROSECUTING LOW-LEVEL BROKEN-WINDOWS TYPE CASES, IT SEEMED TO US, AS OFTEN AS VANCE’S OFFICE WOULD DO,” GANGI SAID, REFERRING TO BRAGG’S IMMEDIATE PREDECESSOR AS MANHATTAN ATTORNEY GENERAL, CY VANCE JR. [MORE].
DATA FROM THE COURT MONITORING PROJECT DEMONSTRATE THAT THE NYPD TARGETS BLACKS AND LATINOS: AS BLACKS/LATINOS MAKE UP 90% OF ALL NYPD ARRESTS, MOSTLY FOR VICTIMLESS CRIMES. WORKING HAND IN HAND WITH THE NYPD, MR. BRAGG’S DA OFFICE IN MANHATTAN — ONE OF THE WEALTHIEST AND LEAST EQUAL PLACES IN THE COUNTRY — HAS CONVICTED BLACK PEOPLE OF FELONIES AND MISDEMEANORS AT A RATE 21 TIMES GREATER THAN THAT OF WHITE PEOPLE OVER THE PAST TWO DECADES. THIS DISPARITY IS THE LARGEST OF ANY COUNTY IN THE STATE. [MORE]
