Coffee County District Attorney Craig Northcott recently refused calls to resign for calling Muslims inherently 'evil' and 'violent.'
A Tennessee prosecutor who recently faced calls to resign for calling Muslims inherently “evil” is again facing controversy after video surfaced of him saying same-sex couples aren’t entitled to domestic violence protections.
“I disagree with it, what I do with domestic assaults,” he said in the video. “On the one hand, I don’t prosecute them because I don’t recognize it as marriage. On the other hand, if I don’t prosecute him, then the sinner, the immoral guy, gets less punishment. What do you do? “DAs have what’s called prosecutorial discretion,” he said. “We can choose to prosecute anything, or we can choose not to prosecute anything up to and including murder. It’s our choice. ... To deal with that, you elect a good Christian DA.”
The office of Coffee County’s mayor also declined to comment, stating the mayor is out of office due to health reasons. Northcott previously refused calls to apologize and resign in May after he was found to have posted Islamophobic comments on Facebook in mid-April.
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