Horror at the Mall of America...

Emmanuel Aranda (R) and 5 y/o Victim

For those of you who may not have seen this, Emmanuel Deshawn Aranda hurled a five y/o child from a 3rd floor balcony in the Mall of America in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Friday, April 12th.

Aranda, 24 had an outstanding warrant on an open assault case and had an order of protection against him, barring him from entering the Mall of America.

Many have made this incident a "racial issue," as Emmanuel Aranda is black, the child is white and it DID NOT appear to be a "random act."

Some correctly note that had the races been reversed, this would've been front page news for the rest of April and the trial coverage would be followed every step of the way.

THAT is correct, BUT it's NOT primarily a racial issue (black Americans don't control the media), it's entirely a political-media class issue. THIS is THEIR agenda - the highlighting of any and every incident that can be construed as "anti black" bigotry, while ignoring the far more prevalent "anti white" bigotry.

All of that is on this archaic and out of touch media, not on any ethnic group.

No, this issue highlights the failure of our justice system to deal with violent crime.

Our misguided "War on Drugs" has failed. We can't even keep illicit drugs out of prisons. The "War on Drugs" is misguided because you CAN'T save self destructive people from themselves.

We CAN and SHOULD look to save decent, law-abiding citizens from violent offenders.

Mandatory sentences and draconian punishments should be reserved for violent felons.

A first violent offense should get a mandatory minimum of 10 years and subsequent sentences would get more and more severe from there and there should be no parole for violent offenses.

It's a disgrace that this wanted felon with an open warrant felt safe enough to walk into a mall he was barred from (not the first time for that either) and commit this cowardly act.

Violating a legal order of protection must come with a harsh penalty itself. Far too many ex spouses and stalking victims have been killed by perpetrators who'd violated such protection orders.

A suspect who violates an order of protection and commits an assault as 1st offenses, should serve 5 years minimum mandatory on violating the order of protection and a consecutive (NOT concurrent) 10 year minimum mandatory on the assault. The penalties should increase exponentially on succeeding violations.

If this had been the case, then Emmanuel Aranda would've been sentenced to at least 15 years (probably more, if he'd had previous violent crime convictions), putting him in prison for at least another 14 years, had he been sentenced last year.

If that had been the case, this attack would've never happened.

We DO badly need criminal justice reform, just not the kind many Liberals/"Progressives" are calling for.

We need mandatory minimums with no parole for violent offenders. We need a return to prisons (reserved for violent offenders) designed to break a convict. Ones with draconian conditions. Ones that DON'T allow them to read, workout, etc. AND we need to scrap our sterile and secreted death penalty for a quicker, more efficient one (hanging, or the guillotine) and one expanded to be used against pedophiles and human traffickers.

This incident highlights our failed criminal justice system more than anything else.