A Tennessee district attorney is under investigation following anti-Islamic social media posts and comments about not enforcing domestic violence laws for gay couples.
In a video from 2018, Craig Northcott said of same-sex domestic violence cases: "There's no marriage to protect, so I don't prosecute them."
During his long-winded answer, Northcott tells the audience that district attorneys have “prosecutorial discretion” and “a lot of authority.” After telling the audience to “elect a good Christian man” as district attorney, he then asks the crowd if they “know what assault is.” He proceeded to explain that there’s a subcategory of assault called domestic assault” that “carries more punishment.”
Northcott said he concluded, based on his own analysis and not on the fact that domestic violence charges also apply for unmarried couples, that “the reason that there's enhanced punishment on domestic violence is to recognize and protect the sanctity of marriage. And I said, 'there's no marriage to protect.' So I don't prosecute them as domestics.”
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