U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro said on Wednesday that the age of legal accountability in Washington, D.C., should be lowered to the age of 14 in light of the recent assault of former Department of Government Efficiency worker Edward Coristine, also known as “Big Balls.”
“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 during her appearance on Fox News’s “The Ingraham Angle.”
“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 told host Laura Ingraham. “He was able to stay standing. This has to end.”
On Sunday, Coristine was beaten up by as many as 10 teens during an attempted carjacking near the White House. Two 15-year-old suspects have been charged with unarmed carjacking.
Pirro, who was confirmed to her post by the Senate last week, said she is supportive of President Trump’s push to federalize the nation’s capital and argued that 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, where she was previously a co-host. “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.
