Teenagers who commit crimes should be held accountable for their actions and not “coddled,” U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro said.
Pirro made the declaration Wednesday by saying the age of legal accountability in Washington, D.C., needs to be 14, The Hill reported.
“The D.C. Council, and the president is right, they have got to stop their coddling. Number one, we’ve got to lower the age of responsibility to 14. I’m tired of having these kids commit crimes — and they are crews, not gangs, in D.C.,” Pirro said on Fox News’s “The Ingraham Angle.”
This comes on the heels of an assault of a former Department of Government Efficiency employee.
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“We’ve got an intern, you said it in your open, an intern from college, he gets shot going out for McDonald’s at 10:30 at night. This kid is trying to help his girlfriend or his friend to a car. He gets assaulted and, but for a cop going by, they would have — had they gotten him on the ground, they would have stomped him and finished him,” Pirro said. “He was able to stay standing. This has to end.”
The victim was beaten up by about 10 teens as they attempted a carjacking near the White House on Sunday, according to law enforcement. Two 15-year-olds are charged with unarmed carjacking.
Pirro said she supports Trump’s push to federalize D.C. She added violent youth are “coddled” in Democrat-run cities.
“Youth violence is on the rise, not just in D.C., but across the country. And if you think that these kids need to be coddled, and they need to be hugged — they need to have consequences,” Pirro said on Fox News. “They need to understand that enough is enough, that we’re going to put them in jail or some kind of youth rehabilitation detention facility, and not allow the D.C. Council, one of whom I just recently indicted, to take cover for these kids.”
“Here’s the thing: D.C. is the nation’s capital. People come here for pride and patriotism, not to get assaulted, carjacked or shot, get caught in a crossfire,” she said.
