The victims of 'progressive' prosecutors and woke corporations

 Dominique Luzuriaga Rivera:

You’ve heard the chants in the streets of America: “Pigs in a blanket, fry ‘em like bacon.”

You’ve seen the graffiti scrawled on walls and monuments and broken windows in the wake of “peaceful protests”: ACAB, which stands for “All Cops Are Bastards.”

The lives of law enforcement officers who risk everything, every day, to serve and protect have been endangered by “woke” politicians, prosecutors, judges, and activists for years. In 2020, anti-police hatred intensified terrifyingly under the influence of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (“BLM”), whose rioters called openly for police officers to die.

And they were heard. In 2021, according to FBI data, a record 73 cops were killed in the line of duty. That’s the highest number in a single year since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

In this murderous mission, BLM had partners: “woke” corporate leaders of names and brands you know, including Coca-Cola, Comcast/NBC, Gatorade, Levi’s, Microsoft, Nike, Papa Johns, PayPal, Peloton, and Target, among others.

It’s time for those corporations to take responsibility for their actions, because the consequences are all too real for families like mine – and for every community in America.

My name is Dominique Luzuriaga Rivera. I’m 23 years old and I am the widow of NYPD Detective Jason Rivera – the love of my life ever since we met in kindergarten – who was killed in the line of duty on January 21, 2022.

Jason was a rookie. He and his partner, Detective Wilbert Mora, were responding to a domestic violence call when they were ambushed and shot in the head by a convicted felon and probation violator. Both Jason and Wilbert died of their injuries.

The murderer’s rap sheet was so long he should never have been back on the streets. Lenient prosecutors taking advantage of New York’s disastrous “bail reform” law gave him his undeserved and deadly freedom.

Jason and Wilbert were honored by thousands of fellow NYPD and New Yorkers at their shared funeral at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. When Jason and I got married I never imagined I would be delivering his eulogy three months later, and after I told the story of our life together I called out Alvin Bragg, the “woke” Manhattan District Attorney, by name. He and every prosecutor turning a blind eye to the carnage being inflicted on law enforcement must be held accountable.

My friend and fellow police widow Ann Wood-Dorn lost her husband David, a retired St. Louis police captain, when he volunteered to help a friend responding to a break-in at his pawn shop during a BLM-backed riot on June 2, 2020.

Ann didn’t even know David had gone to protect the shop when she heard the doorbell: “The chief of police was standing there crying. He told me Dave had been murdered.”

Ann learned that as her husband, a black man, was imploring looters to leave, a man came up and shot him point-blank in the chest – as another rioter livestreamed the killing with his cellphone.

And because St. Louis Mayor Lydia Crewson had ordered police to stand down during the riot, no police or ambulance responded for at least 20 minutes. David bled out and died on the street.

Ultimately seven people were arrested, two of whom were charged with murder, but Ann had to call the judge trying the first murder suspect to beg that the second one not be freed by George Soros-backed District Attorney Kim Gardner.
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Progressive prosecutors are a clear and present danger to the public as well as judges who put the perps back on the streets.  There is something seriously wrong with the criminal justice system that frees people who are a danger to the community.