Numerous news outlets reported last week how the entrance to Union Station in Washington, D.C., had been vandalized with swastika symbols. Some stories quoted Metropolitan Police Dept. Chief Robert Contee speculating that maybe a homeless person was responsible.
But as per the norm, the reports were used by The Usual Suspects on the left and in the media to suggest that alleged white supremacists supposedly influenced by former President Donald Trump and the Charlottesville tiki-torch racists likely made hateful markings. People found the swastikas a day after International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Self-described “Obama alumn” Jason Karsh was one:
Lincoln Project strategist Jeff Timmer was another:
“Reporter” Sam Youngman:
Prominent liberal transgender activist Charlotte Clymer:
For the record, here’s a video from the Daily Caller showing how extensive the vandalism was:
However, as is often the case, those seeking to cast blame on Republicans and Trump for “white supremacist” anti-Semitism jumped the gun. The suspect has since been identified as Geraldo Pando, 34, a Mexican citizen who has an extensive criminal history per the DC Examiner. He has been treated with kid gloves by ICE over the last year thanks to lax Biden administration policies on illegal immigrants caught committing crimes:
From the story:
A man arrested last week for vandalizing Washington’s Union Station with swastika symbols is a Mexican citizen with a 15-year criminal history who has been deported twice but still does not meet Biden administration standards for arrest or removal.[…]Despite his extensive criminal history and lack of legal status to reside in the U.S., ICE did not pursue taking [Geraldo] Pando into custody following his arrests in Washington last month, an indication of how Biden administration policies have forbidden the law enforcement agency from carrying out laws passed by Congress that give ICE authority to arrest any illegal immigrant, including those without criminal histories.These new guidelines were imposed in early 2021 and limited arrests to three categories: illegal immigrants viewed as a national security threat, those who illegally entered the U.S. after Nov. 1, 2021, and illegal immigrants who were convicted of select felonies or affiliated with a gang. Anyone outside these categories, including someone who had been newly arrested by a local police department and had previously been convicted of multiple felonies, would not be fit for arrest unless approved by a supervisor.
Bizarrely but not surprisingly, Pando’s name and nationality were not mentioned once in the CNN write-up on his arrest. They identified him as “the 34-year-old.”
Sadly, because the suspect here is like many others who’ve allegedly committed hate crime offenses but did not fit the preferred left-wing/media profile of being a white supremacist Trump supporter – and because this situation is an embarrassment to Joe Biden and other open-borders Democrats, this story will soon go away:
Wash, rinse, repeat.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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