A socialist lawmaker in New York City has claimed “biological need” gives shoplifters the right to steal from store shelves.
State Assemblywoman Emily Gallagher, who describes herself as a “neighborhood organizer” and “democratic socialist,” made her comments on Thursday outside Manhattan Criminal Court, the New York Post reported Saturday.
She was joined by members of Court Watch NYC, which claimed they monitored hundreds of arraignments for several days and found half of those cases were misdemeanors.Gallagher said:
Most of what we saw were crimes of poverty-people who are stealing things like toothpaste, people who were stealing things like, you know, soap. And that means if you’re stealing those things, you need them. And we are choosing to protect billion-dollar companies, like CVS and Walgreens, over the people who are struggling to get by. So I would say that the true crime is that there is such incredible wealth disparity in this city that there are people who can be thrown in jail simply for having a biological need.
Gallagher said she is fighting to “pass things like treatment not jail and that we hold the line on the incredible criminal justice reforms that we have done over the last 10 and 20 years that are constantly being threatened by right-wing media who are looking to fear monger about people who are actually just in absolute dire straits.”
Voting Democrat? THIS is YOUR Party. Enjoy!
My question: Once the woke Communist gets her legally stolen loot, does she then have property rights over that legally stolen loot? Or can you and I grab it just like she grabbed it? Is stealing only legal when done by members of The Party? Or is stealing now legal for everyone?
At least force Democratic Party supporters to be open about it.
You are witnessing the end of civilization. I say that because half the states and all the big cities in America are now run by the socialists and Communists of the Democratic Party. After 2026, they might control Congress, and after 2028 they might control the whole federal government.
This is their platform. None of them will denounce it.