A man with an incredibly lengthy criminal record was
released without bail in New York after he smeared
his own feces in the face of a victim
sitting at a subway station waiting for a train.
In an earlier attack by the way he
went after a Jewish man while uttering anti-Semitic garbage.
He also spat on the Jewish man will give you the details of that crime in a minute.
But Assistant District Attorney, Grace Phillips, this is in
New York recounted how fFrank Abrokwa initially harassed the victim.
The woman saying, hey mami, hey mami, why don't you talk to me?
When she ignored him, he walked into an idling subway car and pooped
into a bag, then returned to smear the excrement on her face, head,
nose, mouth and eyes and then he said to her, you like this bitch.
And this story infuriated me like you wouldn't believe because
of the fact that I see this as a violent crime.
I see him as a dangerous person and he somehow gets let go because of
the bail reform policies that have been implemented
in New York and California has similar policies.
And we'll get into what the flaws are in just a moment because I think that
bail reform is something that was people who
pursued that did so with the best of intentions.
But the problem is how crimes are classified, why
some crimes or misdemeanors while others are considered felonies
that's the real issue at hand and we'll talk
about that in more detail in just a second.
Before we do though how do we know that he did this?
Well, there's surveillance footage of it and he also
showed absolutely no remorse when he showed up in court.
Without further ado why don't we take a look
at that surveillance footage and then we'll talk about it.
So there he is, you can see him clearly victimizing this woman and she's
minding her business waiting for a train it's just absolutely disgusting.
Okay, so it turns out that after they let him go with no bail, he
had to return to court because they arrested him for a hate crime
for basically going after a Jewish man in September of 2021.
He was hauled before a judge for the second time in days.
This time on charges, he spat on a jewish man
and chased him down a Brooklyn street screaming, come here, you
f*** Jew, I'm going to kill you according to a
criminal complaint, that alleged hate
crime happened September 9in Crown Heights.
Now the victim in this case spoke to the press, the New York Daily News, Men Isham
Minka Wits and he said this, he singled me out because he noticed I'm jewish.
It's not even like I said something to him I was
minding my business and looking at my phone, everything happened so quick.
A person comes up and spits on me, I said, what the f*** is wrong with you?
And he said f*** Jew I got spit on for being a
Jew just because I'm wearing a yarmulke, I should be treated like this.
And by the way, when the perpetrator here showed up to court for the second
time in days, he was annoyed, he was very irritable that he had to do that.
He told the judge I'm f*** tired of it, I'm hungry.
Why am I still here?
They want to charge me with a hate crime.
>> Wow.
>> This guy has been arrested 44 times
for in my opinion, violent offenses, not non-violent
offenses, non-violent offenses is, hey, you got caught
with a baggie of marijuana, you're not harming anyone.
Okay, you got caught shoplifting some negligible amount, right?
Like that, to me is nonviolent, I think
bail reform certainly makes sense in those circumstances.
We're talking about a guy who's been arrested 44 times, okay.
Some of his crimes include sucker punching a
man in the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown.
He went to a Bronx hardware store and threatened the
owner with a screwdriver that he took off the store's rack.
Another victim was punched in the face
multiple times on a Harlem subway platform.
But because of how crimes are classified, and how these very crimes that
I just listed right now are not
considered felony offenses, they're considered misdemeanor offenses.
The judge has no choice but to let this guy go free with no bail.
How does that make any sense?
>> No guys, we've got to figure this
out, if I don't understand how those are misdemeanors.
And so first of all, they're under the umbrella of non-violent offenses.
He punched a guy in the face multiple times that's
violent by definition, by definition, how is that not violent?
But this bail reform issue has to be sorted out
based on the classification of the crimes.
What kind of insane
world do we live in?
But this bail reform issue has to be sorted out based on the classification of the crimes.
But this bail reform issue has to be
sorted out based on the classification of the crimes.
But this bail reform issue has to be sorted
out based on the classification of the crimes Right.
You're punishing them for being poor, not because of the crime, but letting
dangerous violent people go while calling them non-violent makes no sense at all.
And look, there's the reality and then there's the politics
of it, the politics that are less important, but the politics
of it is, hey, if this is what is perceived as
being the progressive point of view, that's a disaster for progressives.
And it isn't, it certainly isn't my point of view.
And I hope it's not the progressive point of view,
nobody wants this, that's just, it's disgusting, it's unacceptable, etc, right?
But the more important thing is reality, people are actually getting hurt
and then guys are walking out of the court system, that guy
was bragging about how he knew he was gonna walk, out of
the 40 for crimes that he committed only one was considered a felony.
And we just read your number of insane crimes that were violent in nature.
No, there has to be real consequences for real violent crimes.
>> So I wanted to like learn more.
Like I wanted to really verify that this
is really what's happening, that they're classifying these
violent offenses as misdemeanors that essentially mean that
the perpetrator gets to take advantage of bail reform.
And the New York Times even reported this, under the new law.
Judges will no longer be able to set bail for a
long list of misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies, including the let's look at
this list, stalking, assault, without serious injury, burglary, many
drug offenses, which I'm fine with, and even some kinds of arson and robbery.
Guys, the difference between a burglary and a robbery is that
in a burglary, there is a weapon involved and there's a
person in the house or a person in the store, someone
is being threatened with violence while this theft is happening, right?
That is a violent crime, that is a violent crime, how can anyone advocate for that?
Being like some no, like, no big deal.
If someone is a suspected of carrying out stalking
domestic violence is also on the list by the way.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah, just let him go, no bail,
not a threat to society whatsoever, that is insane.
And if there are progressives who have been advocating for this,
I guarantee you it is a losing strategy, 100% of losing strategy.
>> And they are minuscule percentage of progressives, let alone the country.
I don't know, if they actually exist, if they do, maybe they're loud and small.
But I don't know any normal human being who thinks,
guy punches somebody in the face of a bunch of
times, he yells at a poor jewish guy, spits on
him and the smears crap on some poor woman's face.
No big deal, let him go, I don't know anybody who thinks that, that's insane.
Okay, so and I know he's theoretically supposed to come back to court,
but in that hate crime he did against the jewish guy in Crown Heights.
They couldn't find him, they couldn't find him for months.
They only found him after the excrement situation.
They matched his closes the things that he had on him to that earlier crime, but
otherwise, Mr Mink Wits, there was saying they
were, the cops are barely working on the case.
They were pretty non responsive.
They weren't going to find them and that's
infuriating to be attacked for your ethnicity like
that and have a guy disgusting, I spit on you like that and and no one cares.
But the silver lining, there is now this is a good
case for making hate crimes significant because the hate crime part
might classify it as a felony and we might actually be
able to keep him in jail until these things are resolved.
>> Wrong again, Bob, so let me give you another example this time out of Brooklyn.
Tiffany Harris, a Brooklyn woman who was released after
she was alleged to have hit three jewish women
in a bias attack was arrested the next day
and accused of an assault on yet another woman.
>> Now you can't release people who are committing violent crimes.
So, New York, California, wherever it is, they have to fix the laws so that it's for
actual minor crimes that you don't get stuck in
jail with that because you don't have bail, right.
But for serious crimes, of course, yeah, no, we need bail, we can't, we've
got to make sure they show up to court and there's got to be real consequences.
And by the way we say this about right wing attacks as well.
A lot of times, the right
wing's do outrageous attacks, enormous assaults, threats
of killing people over and over again,
there's barely any punishment, they just walk.
Well if you do that, yeah, they're gonna threaten to kill people and
yes, they're going to kill people
eventually because they think there's no consequences.
And we've said this a thousand times and it doesn't matter
the left wing right wing or any political aspect of it, that
we have to have rule of law in this country and rule
of law does not mean let's go kick random minorities asses, right?
What an absurd interpretation that unfortunately police in the justice
system have been doing in this country for hundreds of years.
There's a problem with crime let's pick a random black
guy who didn't do it and kick his ass what?
No, don't do that, find the actual people who did it and put them in jail.
>> And again, I think bail reform has been pursued with the best of intentions, but
there are flaws and they need to be
remedied immediately because innocent people are getting hurt.
There is obviously a place in society for public safety and the way
that this is being carried out is not prioritizing public safety or justice.
And I find that to be a huge issue