Two different sets of laws in this country, part 365,806.

You're almost certainly not from Cleveland, so most of you probably don't think the following story has any relevance to your life.  Think again.

If you've been paying attention to news you may have noticed that the U.S. now has a de-facto "two-tier" system of laws, in which Democrat pols and officials who break the law almost always escape punishment for acts that "ordinary people"--you and I--are jailed or fined for.  The thoroughly corrupt Democrat-ruled city of Cleveland demonstrates that this two-tier system operates on a state level as well as national.

Specifically, in Cleveland, as in Washington, the two-tier system of laws has been letting family members of the four-term Democrat mayor escape prosecution and punishment for damn near anything. In the case described below, corrupt prosecutors refused to charge the grandson of the four-time Democrat mayor of that woeful city, Frank Jackson, for choking a woman and hitting her several times with a metal trailer hitch.

This despite two eyewitnesses, both of whom named one of the mayor's grandsons, 22-year-old Frank Q. Jackson, as the assailant.

Frank Q. Jackson was in a truck with four other people, including an 18-year-old woman and a 16-year-old friend of hers, parked at a gas station.  When the friend went into the store, Jackson turned around and punched the 18-year-old in the face several times, then began choking her.

The woman’s 16-year-old friend told police she returned to the truck and found her friend gasping for breath as Jackson continued to choke her.  He then stopped and told the two females he'd drop them off at an apartment.

While driving to the apartment, he attacked the 18-year-old woman a second time.  On reaching the apartment, Jackson dragged the 18-year-old out of the truck by her hair and began choking her again. He then returned to the truck, grabbed a heavy trailer hitch and used it to strike the woman several times.

Jackson ran away before the police arrived... sort of.  Though he initially fled after officers arrived, Jackson returned to the scene in a different vehicle, driven by a third party. When officers approached the truck, its driver fled the wrong way down a one-way street.

As police were talking with the victim and witnesses, the truck returned to the scene, and the involved parties told officers the truck's driver, Jackson, was the assailant. When an officer stepped in front of the truck and ordered Jackson to pull into a nearby parking spot, Jackson put the truck in reverse at a high rate of speed and fled the scene, the report says.

The victim declined medical attention though suffering from several injuries. When police officers observed Jackson's family members driving around the area, the woman said that she feared retaliation if officers left. She later told officers she did not want to pursue criminal charges against Jackson.

The victim told police that she feared she might be attacked if she pressed charges. And indeed, she later said she would not press charges against her attacker.

Assistant City Prosecutor Aric Kinast, an 18-year-veteran in the office, declined to pursue the case despite the abundance of evidence.  Another oddity is that the case was never referred to the county prosecutor's office, which handles felonies.

Frank Q Jackson, grandson of 4-term mayor of Cleveland

This incident was hardly Jackson's first brush with the law. In May he was arrested and pled guilty to driving a truck in which the passengers shot paint balls at other cars. The arresting officers also found two guns and prescription painkillers in the truck. For this, the mayor's grandson pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors and was sentenced to two years' probation.

In a separate incident Jackson was charged with aggravated menacing, aggravated disorderly conduct, and attempted drug use--all misdemeanors. He was convicted on all counts.

A few weeks later, a truck registered to Jackson was spotted speeding away from a crime scene where a 30-year-old man was shot dead.  A vehicle matching the description of Q's was later found torched.

And Q isn't the only criminal relative of the mayor. In June they mayor's 16-year-old great-grandson was arrested and accused of driving a car whose occupants fired several shots at Cleveland police officers. That case is still pending.

You might think Jackson would be at least somewhat chastened by the acts of his offspring, and his obvious attempts to get them off the hook.  You'd be wrong.  When asked last week about a story published on Cleveland.com that showed a photo of a suspected gang member posing in the mayor’s driveway with what appeared to be a gun with an extended clip, Mayor Jackson responded, “What happens at my house and my yard is not [city] business. How I feel and how I think is not a public record. I choose not to share that with you.”

Now, since you're not in Cleveland, why should any of this matter to you?  Because it's a pattern--one that's becoming clearer and more common every day.  More Dem Politicians--at the state as well as federal level--are using their power to pressure prosecutors into ignoring their felonies, or those of family members.  In fact, George Soros has given millions of dollars to help elect district attorneys who run on a platform of ignoring crimes that don't exceed $1000 in value. 

The Founders said we're all equal under the law, but modern politics have trashed that noble idea. Two different sets of laws will eventually cause those who are held to obey the law--us "ordinary people"--to revolt.

To read the original story click here:  Cleveland Plain Dealer.  and here.