A violent woman who attacked an influencer doing on-the-street interviews in New York City has been sued after the local district attorney in Manhattan, Alvin Bragg, failed to prosecute the case.
Bragg, of course, is the leftist who took President Donald Trump to court over an alleged “hush money” case that resulted in the overwhelmingly Democrat jury members delivering a number of convictions against Trump, a case that remains on appeal.
Essentially Bragg alleged there was an unknown and unspecified crime that was furthered by Trump’s payment of legal fees to a lawyer then representing him in various civil disputes. In Bragg’s scheme, situations that ordinarily would have been misdemeanor records violations, and beyond the statute of limitations, suddenly became felonies. The judge in the case oddly ruled, too, that the jury’s verdict didn’t have to be unanimous, in contradiction to ordinary court practices.
In the newest dispute aggravated by Bragg’s actions, pro-life activist Savannah Craven Antao has sued Brianna J. Rivers, 30, of the Bronx, after Rivers is on video repeatedly smashing Antao in the face.
A report at Fox News said Antao, host of the YouTube channel “Her Patriot Voice” was conducting interviews for Live Action when Rivers repeatedly struck her.
Bragg aggravated the situation by allowing his office to miss a key filing deadline in what could have been a case charging Rivers, the report said.
The complaint was filed in Bronx Supreme Court and explains Antao had to go to the emergency room for stitches after the attack recorded on video, and had more than $3,000 in medical bills.
Lawyers at the Thomas More Society, representing Antao, further charge Rivers “knowingly, willfully and maliciously continued to mock [Savannah] and her views online in order to further inflict emotional distress.”
Fox reported, “Craven Antao’s attorneys say the influencer has suffered symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and has received hundreds of death threats since the incident. The suit seeks compensatory and punitive damages for assault, battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress.”
Rivers had been accused of assault, but the case had to be dismissed when Bragg’s office “failed to turn over discovery on time,” the report said.
Antao later told Fox News Digital, “I have to look over my shoulder and worry about if somebody who supports her actions — there are a lot of people out there that do — that they’re going to try to do something else. … Because what the DA Alvin Bragg himself has shown to people, with letting this case be dropped, is that they can go assault somebody and hurt them if they disagree with them and nothing is going to happen.”
Bragg’s office had admitted the failure, calling the error it allowed to occur “unacceptable.”
Thomas More Society attorney Christopher Ferrara said Bragg’s handling of the case forced them to take civil action against Rivers.
“Savannah was violently assaulted for peacefully expressing her pro-life beliefs and then humiliated all over again when the attacker went online to glorify it,” he said in a statement. “The D.A.’s office had every opportunity to pursue justice and due to their incompetency or lack of will, failed to prosecute this vicious assault. Their refusal left us with no choice but to file civil action to hold Rivers accountable.”
