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弗吉尼亚州第一国会选区民主党候选人2021年曾倡导废除强制最低刑期和三振出局法
作者：利奥·布里塞尼奥，福克斯新闻网
对犯罪持宽容态度的检察官因政策遭质询，遇害者母亲在激烈听证会上当面质问
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香农·泰勒现为弗吉尼亚州第一国会选区民主党候选人，担任亨里科县 Commonwealth 检察官期间，曾支持进步派检察官纲领，倡导减少监禁、推动更多元化举措——而正是这些“民主党价值观”在弗吉尼亚州其他地区酿成了悲剧。
2012年上任后不久，泰勒就解雇了手下7名检察官。
“我曾公开表示，检察官办公室需要更多元化，我会恪守这一公开承诺，”泰勒在解雇事件发生前的一次采访中说道。
她的过往经历引发批评，称她利用检察官职位优先推进意识形态和政治观点，牺牲了公共安全。这也与她的竞选团队塑造的形象产生冲突：她在竞选共和党占优的选区时，被塑造成一名对犯罪持强硬态度的人物。
曾指控特朗普利用司法部谋私的前检察官赢得民主党初选
亨里科县检察官香农·泰勒于2024年6月4日星期二离开弗吉尼亚州夏洛茨维尔的阿尔伯马尔县巡回法院。（美联社照片/瑞安·M·凯利，档案）
泰勒在竞争激烈的民主党初选中胜出，将挑战共和党现任议员罗布·威特曼（R-Va.），她借此强调了自己的工作经历。
“作为亨里科县过去14年的首席检察官，香农审理了数千起案件，将暴力罪犯、毒品贩子和施虐者绳之以法，”泰勒在其竞选网站上写道。“她有记录显示，曾打击试图利用工薪家庭牟利的欺诈者，并将威胁我们安全的暴力罪犯关押入狱。”
但这并非她一贯的形象。
在解雇7名检察官后，泰勒因试图聘请一名名为米斯蒂·怀特黑德的人士担任警方监督检察官而遭到反对。但在该职位正式任命前，怀特黑德的社交媒体帖子被曝光，似乎显示出她攻击警察的一贯倾向。
泰勒的人选遭到该县郡经理的反对。
“郡经理无权指示检察官聘用谁，但他可以决定是否动用地方资金补充该职位的薪资。在这种情况下，我绝对不会在任何情况下批准这笔资金，”郡经理约翰·维图尔卡斯当时说道。
据当地报道，至少有一名郡官员对怀特黑德此前表达的对警方行为和社会正义的担忧表示担忧。
泰勒为自己的人选辩护，告诉当地媒体，她认为这些帖子是“对我们共同经历的当前事件的深思熟虑的分析”。
泰勒还与其他县持有类似理念的检察官保持联系——其中一些人近期因悲剧性事件进入公众视野。
斯潘伯格的移民政策放宽遭指为弗吉尼亚州一名 toddler 遇害的罪魁祸首：国土安全部称弗吉尼亚州是非法移民犯罪的“温床”
32岁的阿卜杜勒·贾洛被指控在弗吉尼亚州的一个公交站杀害了41岁的斯蒂芬妮·明特。（福克斯5华盛顿特区）
在弗吉尼亚州费尔法克斯县，有消息称，来自塞拉利昂的32岁非法移民阿卜杜勒·贾洛在公交站持刀杀害一名弗吉尼亚州居民，尽管他此前有30多次被捕记录，且有暴力行为倾向。
贾洛的犯罪记录包括强奸、恶意伤人、袭击、藏毒、身份盗窃、 trespassing、盗窃和开枪等罪名。
即便如此，检察官史蒂夫·德斯卡诺还是撤销了其中多项指控，引发了议员们的担忧和愤怒。
“你撤销了这些案件，这太可耻了，”北卡罗来纳州共和党众议员布拉德·诺特在德斯卡诺被传唤至国会解释一系列类似案件的听证会上说道。
诺特此前曾揭露过一起涉及儿童性侵者的案件。
“当你撤销案件时，被告会怎么样？他会逍遥法外。一个令人作呕、变态的儿童性侵者，你却撤销了对他的指控，”诺特说道。
早在德斯卡诺受到关注之前，泰勒就曾在2019年支持他竞选县检察官，称两人理念一致。
“我很高兴 endorsed 史蒂夫·德斯卡诺担任费尔法克斯县的 Commonwealth 检察官，因为我知道他会秉持我们共同的民主党价值观，让费尔法克斯成为一个安全、公正的地方，我期待与他合作，”泰勒写道。
泰勒和德斯卡诺随后在2021年致拜登政府的一封信中倡导他们共同的价值观。
在这封信中，两人与其他100名地区和县检察官共同倡导“21世纪检察官的21项原则”。作者称“对犯罪强硬的政策”“与正义背道而驰”，倡导废除强制最低刑期和三振出局法，主张在量刑和辩诉交易时考虑移民身份，并反对将强奸犯称为“强奸犯”、毒贩称为“毒贩”、定罪罪犯称为“重刑犯”或“囚犯”。
“许多当选的改革派检察官正在大胆重新定义检察官的含义，”信中写道。
俄克拉荷马州少年被控强奸两名女孩后无罪释放；地区检察官怒而呼吁联邦介入：“这让我火冒三丈”
费尔法克斯县检察官史蒂夫·德斯卡诺（左）和费尔法克斯县警长斯泰西·安·金凯德（右）在国会作证。（汤姆·威廉姆斯/盖蒂图片社）
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至少一名共和党旁观者抨击了泰勒的过往记录。
“她将检察官办公室的工作重心转向身份政治，推行极左翼议程，将觉醒式激进主义置于公共安全之上，致力于将弗吉尼亚州变成一个极左翼的人间地狱，”共和党全国委员会（RNC）发言人艾玛·霍尔在给福克斯新闻数字频道的一份声明中说道。
“‘DEI女王’香农·泰勒没有选择起诉罪犯、让弗吉尼亚州更安全，而是成了一名多元化、公平性和包容性顾问。”
在赢得民主党提名后，泰勒即将参加11月3日的大选。该选区现任议员威特曼最近一次连任是在2024年，他以56.3%比43.5%的优势击败民主党挑战者、律师莱斯利·梅塔。
利奥·布里塞尼奥是福克斯新闻数字频道国会团队的政治记者，此前曾在《世界杂志》任职。
‘DEI queen’: Virginia Dem’s past embrace of far-left prosecutors unearthed
August 8, 2026 10:00am EDT / Fox News
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Shannon Taylor, now the Democratic nominee in the race for Virginia’s First Congressional district, once endorsed progressive prosecutorial blueprints, advocating for less incarceration and more diversity as a Henrico County commonwealth attorney — some of the same “Democratic values” that ended in tragedy in other parts of Virginia.
Shortly after coming into the role in 2012, Taylor fired seven prosecutors under her.
“I stated publicly that the office needs to have more diversity and I’m going to keep to that public statement,” Taylor said in an interview ahead of the firings.
Her track record is sparking criticism that she used her role to prioritize ideological and political views at the expense of public safety. It’s also clashing with portrayals from her campaign, highlighting her work as a tough-on-crime figure as she looks to win over a Republican-leaning district.
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Shannon Taylor, attorney for Henrico County Commonwealth, exits the Albemarle County Circuit Court in Charlottesville, Va., Tuesday, June 4, 2024.(AP Photo/Ryan M. Kelly, File)
Taylor highlighted her work as she topped a crowded field of Democratic candidates vying to challenge Republican incumbent Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Va.
“As Henrico’s top prosecutor for the last 14 years, Shannon has tried thousands of cases and put violent criminals, drug traffickers and abusers behind bars,” Taylor states on her campaign website.”She has a record of shutting down fraudsters trying to take advantage of working families and locking up violent criminals who threaten our safety.”
But that hasn’t always been the appearance she’s given.
After her seven firings, Taylor faced blowback for trying to hire a woman named Misty Whitehead as a police oversight prosecutor. However, before the role could be made official, social media posts from Whitehead surfaced that seemingly showed a pattern of attacking police.
Taylor faced backlash from the town’s county manager over her selected candidate.
“A county manager can’t tell a commonwealth’s attorney who to hire, but he can recommend whether or not local funds are included to supplement that salary. And in this case, I absolutely will not do it under any circumstances,” County Manager John Vithoulkas said at the time.
Whitehead had a history of voicing concerns about police behavior and social justice that raised concerns for at least one county official, according to local reports.
Taylor defended her pick, telling local outlets that she believed the posts were “thoughtful analysis of the current events we are all living through.”
Taylor also has ties to similarly-minded prosecutors in other counties — some of which entered the public eye recently due to tragic circumstances.
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In Fairfax County, Virginia, news broke that Abdul Jalloh, a 32-year-old illegal alien from Sierra Leone, stabbed a Virginia resident to death at a bus stop despite over 30 prior arrests and a known tendency for violent behavior.
Jalloh’s criminal record included charges of rape, malicious wounding, assault, drug possession, identity theft, trespassing, larceny and firing a weapon.
Even so, prosecutor Steve Descano had dropped many of them, prompting concern and outrage from lawmakers.
“You dismissed the case, and it’s shameful,” Rep. Brad Knott, R-N.C. said at a hearing where Descano was summoned to Congress to explain a series of similar cases.
Knott had been highlighting one such instance involving a child predator.
“When you dismiss a case, what happens to that defendant? He walks free. A disgusting, perverted individual preying on children, that you dismissed,” Knott said.
Long before Descano’s time in the spotlight, Taylor had endorsed Descano, supporting his bid to become county prosecutor in 2019, citing shared outlooks.
“I am excited to endorse Steve Descano for Fairfax County’s Commonwealth’s Attorney because I know he will prioritize the same Democratic values we all share, making Fairfax a safe and just place for everyone and I am looking forward to working with him,” Taylor wrote.
Taylor and Descano would go on to champion their shared values in a 2021 letter to the Biden Administration.
In it, the two joined 100 other district and county attorneys in championing a set of “21 principles for the 21st-Century prosecutor.” The authors claimed that “tough on crime policies” had been “anathema to justice,” championed an end to mandatory minimums and three-strike laws, advocated for taking immigration status into consideration when negotiating sentences and plea deals, and opposed calling rapists “rapists,” drug dealers “drug dealers,” and convicted criminals “felons” or “inmates.”
“A number of elected reform-minded prosecutors are boldly redefining what it means to be a prosecutor,” the letter states.
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Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano, left, and Fairfax County Sheriff Stacey Ann Kincaid, right, testify before Congress.(Tom Williams/Getty Images)
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At least one Republican onlooker blasted Taylor’s record.
“She spent her time reshaping the prosecutor’s office around identity politics, pushing a far-left agenda that put woke activism ahead of public safety, and fighting to turn Virginia into a far-left hellscape,” Emma Hall, a spokesperson for the Republican National Committee (RNC), said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“Instead of prosecuting criminals and making Virginia safer, DEI queen Shannon Taylor chose to be a diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant.”
Having secured the Democratic nomination, Taylor now heads to the general election on Nov. 3. Wittman, the district’s incumbent, last won re-election in 2024 in a 56.3% to 43.5% victory over Democratic challenger Leslie Mehta, an attorney.
Leo Briceno is a politics reporter for the congressional team at Fox News Digital. He was previously a reporter with World Magazine.
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