Democrats Lash Out At Youngkin For Pardoning Father Of Loudoun Rape Victim

Daily Wire

Virginia Democrats and Loudoun County’s George Soros-backed prosecutor are lashing out at Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) over his Sunday pardon of Scott Smith, whose daughter was raped in school and who the prosecutor, Buta Biberaj, personally sought to put in jail.
Biberaj said Youngkin’s pardon “is an unprecedented and inappropriate intervention into an active legal case,” and said he was taking action “not for justice but for political gain.” Scott Surovell, the vice chairman of the Democrat Senate Caucus, said Youngkin’s pardon was an abandonment of “law and order” intended to “help his failing presidential ambitions.”

Despite Smith having committed no apparent crime, police apprehended him from behind, saying his body language suggested that it might escalate. They bloodied him and kneeled on his chest as he shouted, “I can’t breathe.”
Youngkin’s pardon stated that his office determined Smith committed no crime, and called into question the “integrity of the prosecution.”

State Delegate Candi Mundon King, a black Democrat representing Stafford and Prince William Counties, said on X: “Didn’t law enforcement make these charges… Guess he doesn’t ‘Back the blue’ as much as we thought.”

Biberaj ran on a platform lamenting “overincarceration” and has refused to prosecute many misdemeanors. Democrats, claiming to want to stop people from being arrested for minor crimes in schools, even passed a law that “Eliminates the requirement that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense.”