DC ATTACKERS GO FREE, SHOWING LIMITS OF TRUMP CRIME CRACKDOWN. District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Kendra Briggs was quite understanding with the 15-year-old who had pepper-sprayed a man while a friend pummeled him, and while others in her group tried to steal his car. The young perpetrator has had a difficult life, Briggs noted. “I know you are not unfamiliar to trauma,” the judge said. “I don’t disagree that the trauma you’ve already suffered in life is kind of how you ended up on U Street that day.”

A picture of the victim, sitting on the ground, shirtless, bloody, ribs broken, had gone viral on the internet. The reason for that was that he was Edward Coristine, a young Trump administration staffer who had received attention for his work on the DOGE project. President Donald Trump himself posted the photo. “Crime in Washington, DC is totally out of control,” Trump wrote. “Local ‘youths’ and gang members, some only 14, 15, and 16 years old, are randomly attacking, mugging, maiming, and shooting innocent citizens, at the same time knowing that they will almost immediately be released.” The Coristine attack was one of the reasons Trump began the crime crackdown in Washington.

A Metropolitan Police report of the attack noted that “ten juveniles” surrounded Coristine’s car. A woman who was with........

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