A federal prosecutor said that the Department of Justice’s
efforts under Jeff Sessions to aggressively prosecute drug crimes will target
people wearing “heavy gold and chains,” reported the Daily Caller.
The National Association of Assistant United States
Attorneys — an association representing federal prosecutors — held a
conference call with reporters expressing their support for Sessions’ objective
of going after drug crime offenders.
Larry Leiser, the president of the group and a current
prosecutor, said that this will help “young people who see people in
the community wearing heavy gold and chains and hot cars as a result of
their participating in the distribution of these drugs, as opposed to going out
and earning an honest living.”
A reporter interjected and said that these remarks could be
construed as racist and Leiser denied that is the case. “It’s intended to be
just the reality that unfortunately there are many people in the minority
communities that are caught up in this terrible blight of drugs,” he replied.
He said that mandatory minimums help “alleviate the pain and
suffering that these drug traffickers perpetrate on their own.”
Leiser added that the drug “plague” affects all communities
and pointed to the opioid and heroin epidemic hitting white communities.
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