Alina Habba, the U.S. attorney for New Jersey, announced Thursday that teen gang members who murder police officers will face adult trials.
This is the right way to do it. Habba, Fox News’ Fox and Friends, said that if a person shoots a policeman, or anyone else, regardless of their age, and irrespective of whether they are a member of a gang and have a criminal record, then you will be treated as an adult. She made this statement after filing paperwork to have a 14-year-old boy tried as an adult after he shot and killed a Newark Sergeant. Joseph Azcona.
The teenager was originally charged with murder, attempted murder, and possession of illegal weapons.
Authorities said that the 26-year-old officer was shot in his car while he was on a mission to arrest a suspect involved in an illegal weapons operation.
Emanuel Miranda of Newark, director of public security, said at a news conference held Saturday morning with Newark’s mayor and the top prosecutor, “He never got a chance even to get out of his vehicle before he’d been struck.”
