The 12-year-old boy is described as a youth. But a 12-year-old is still a child.
Typically, if attending school, in Grade 7.
But this 12-year-old is charged with second-degree murder and five violent robberies. And we don’t really know how to profile them, apart from the Youth Criminal Justice Act, which deems that anyone aged 12 or older can be charged with a criminal offence.
That child is the weaponized product of the Liberal-left’s war on western civilization.
America is on fire now over a shocking murder on a tram in Charlotte, North Carolina. A young Ukrainian refugee, Iryna Zarutska, took a seat on the tram in front of a large, hooded black man, Decarlos Brown. After a few moments, Brown took a knife from his pocket, leapt up, and slashed helpless Zarutska in the neck. Brown, a schizophrenic with 14 criminal convictions on his record, staggered off muttering, “I got the white girl.”
Zarutska bled to death on the floor of the train, in full view of others, who did nothing to help her. At last someone—a black man, note well—ran to her aid and tried to stanch the bleeding, but it was too late. She was pronounced dead by emergency personnel when they arrived.
Let’s have some honesty about the true problem — not leftist boilerplate that champions murderers.
In June 2023, Syrian refugee Abdalmasih H. stormed into a playground in Annecy, in the French Alps, at 9 a.m. and began stabbing as many babies as he could in their strollers. Of the six seriously injured, four were children between 22 months and 3 years old. Images of the horror spread around the world. A Spanish journalist, host of one of the country’s most-watched morning shows, commented live on the attack: “This is causing a stir, and in a country like France, these are votes for Le Pen, for the far right. It’s tremendous.”
The stench has been wafting through the bowels of the justice system for about the past 10 years.
Those putrid smells are secrets, particularly the one where criminals trump small children. And that may be our prosecutors are as weak as lambs.
A new study finds that headlines can turn the public against legitimate uses of force.
Public opinion on police use of force is shifting. Over the past several decades, Americans have increasingly disapproved of officers’ actions, even when those actions are lawful and follow established professional protocols. According to my recent research, the cause isn’t just politics or changing demographics. One major influence is how the news media frames incidents of force.
Canadian judges love to toss out the old “cruel and unusual” chestnut when it suits their ideological whims.
The violent illegal immigrant whose deportation is iced because it might be “cruel and unusual.”
Mandatory minimum sentences for gun crimes? “Cruel and unusual.”
Who is Ritchie Wellman? He is a father, a boyfriend, an assistant operations manager at a local business and a part-time paedophile hunter. Right now, however, at 7 p.m. in a dusty car park down the road from Bournemouth pier, Ritchie is the commander of his own private policing unit, briefing his officers before their first patrol. He tells them not to assault anybody, not to be provoked, not to drink or smoke on the job, and to reassure the public if they are concerned by this new authority on their streets: ‘This is not a takeover.’
Ritchie is a normal guy, and he and his officers and others in Bournemouth like them believe that their town is falling apart and that the state is not coming to save it. They say rapes, stabbings, violent disorder and anti-social behaviour are turning their home into somewhere that they do not recognise. The police tried to make it safer but failed. Now it’s the people’s turn.
Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday night rescinded Washington, D.C., policies that restrict the local police from aiding in immigration enforcement as she moved to tighten the Trump administration’s grip over law enforcement in the nation’s capital.
The two-page order from Ms. Bondi also declared that Terry Cole, the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, who had already been overseeing the federal takeover of the city’s police department, was now the “emergency police commissioner,” with “all the powers and duties” invested in the city’s police chief, Pamela A. Smith.
President Donald Trump announced on Monday that his administration is taking back control of Washington, D.C., by returning policing control to federal control after decades of city government failure.
Trump signed an executive order invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act, which allows his administration to take control of D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department. Along with invoking Section 740, he declared a pubic safety emergency in the nation’s capital. He also signed a memorandum to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directing him to mobilize the D.C. National Guard to help clean up crime in the city.
On Monday morning President Donald Trump officially invoked Home Rule and put Attorney General Pam Bondi in command of the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department.
The punishments meted out to those who take someone else’s life are not supposed to be seen as measures of the value of that lost life. We should not infer that a life is worth more, for example, if a killer is sentenced to 25 years, as opposed to 10 years, or five years, or just a couple of years of probation. Punishments are supposed to be about the circumstances of a crime, about aggravated and mitigating factors, about the principles of denunciation and distribution, about rehabilitation and retribution, and about public safety. The inherent worth of the lost life, really, has nothing to do with it.
A Quebec minister responsible for fighting racism is criticizing a ruling by a judge who reduced a convicted Black man’s sentence due to systemic discrimination.
In an interview with The Canadian Press, Christopher Skeete said that someone’s race should not be a factor affecting sentencing for a crime.
“I question whether or not as a society this is exactly where we want to go,” the minister said. “Do we really want to formalize discrimination in the attribution of sentences for people who perpetrate crimes?”
In Canada in 2025, there seems to be more important things at play than police finding a loaded gun, drugs and a suspect known to them allegedly asleep at the wheel outside a building known for human and narcotics trafficking.
Despite red flags in this matter, police have been reminded of this reality once again.
The severity of the crime no longer matters.
Shoplifting is on par with murder and sexual assault. Ultimately, every crook – two-bit or sophisticated – walks out of bail court with a free pass thanks to the Trudeau government’s mind-boggling homage to stupidity, Bill C-75.
I wouldn’t hold my breath “Law and Order” is likely too right wing for Ford.
A Toronto judge has designated a repeat sex offender as dangerous and handed down an indefinite prison sentence — while expressing concern that the prisoner, who identifies as transgender, was granted a transfer to a women’s detention facility.
In a sentencing decision released last week, Ontario Court Justice Brock Jones said he was “alarmed” to learn that Charles Waddling-Leeson had been moved to a provincial women’s detention facility after starting a gender transition from male to female while in custody.
