David and I have been writing a fair bit lately about how justice manifests - or, put another way, doesn't manifest at all - regarding the wave of Tesla vandalism, most particularly in the cast of Dylan Bryan Adams, a Minnesota executive branch employee who was accused of vandalizing six of the electric cars around Minneapolis a few weeks back.
I pointed out a couple of times that this is evidence of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards's assertion that there are 'Two Americas" - in terms of justice, not class.
We're talking about the case of Dylan Adams, Minnesota Department of Health and Human Services employee and alleged Tesla vandal, originally charged with felony-level vandalism, but put into a diversion program by Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty. This twitter thread has a pretty solid recap:
One of @GovTimWalz's state employees took the gov's words to heart.
— CrimeWatchMpls (@CrimeWatchMpls) April 18, 2025
Dylan Bryan Adams, 33, was arrested on suspicion of causing over $20,000 in damages to Teslas in Minneapolis. Formal charges are pending.
We posted about the incidents a couple weeks ago when a male with a dog… pic.twitter.com/8kGwavIX2N
(Point of order: Adams was not appointed by Governor Walz. But he does appear to impeccable "progressive" credentials).
Now you might say "c'mon, Mitch. That's a very abstract point. Yes, a soy boy and Democrat in good standing, accused of vandalizing this year's Emmanual Goldstein stand-in, seems to have gotten a pretty sweet deal, allegedly doing almost $21,000 in damage, which is roughly 21 times the threshold for felony Criminal Damage under Minnesota law, and getting into a diversion program that normally has a cap of $5,000 or less. But it's all hypothetical, isn't it?"
Not so fast.
Bill Glahn of the Center of the American Experiment, writing in the New York Post, compares and contrasts the treatment Dylan Adams got, as compared to people who allegedly vandalize less politically-acceptable property:
And now local reporters have learned that, on the same day she announced the Adams diversion, Moriarty charged a 19-year-old woman — with no prior criminal record — with a first-degree felony for keying one car, belonging to a White Castle co-worker, and causing just $7,000 in damages.
To paraphrase: For Moriarty’s Democratic friends, anything; for teenaged fast-food workers, the law.
The report on Moriarty’s hypocrisy was startling in that it came from the reliably leftist Minneapolis Star Tribune, in a story that rehashed the many, many lowlights of Moriarty’s brief career as county prosecutor.
The sentencing guidelines for first degree criminal damage to property in Minnesota for someone with no criminal history can be 12-15 months in prison, although people with no criminal history typically get the sentence stayed and put on probation. Other than the felony on her record, easy peasy.
The young woman charged in the other case apparently made two mistakes; not being a Minnesota government employee, and not allegedly vandalizing a more politically acceptable target.
And while the lowlights of Moriarty's reign are many, we'd need a bigger blog to document them all; "slaps on the wrist for murderers" is all I really need to say, now, isn't it? Mary Moriarty makes Chesa Boudin look a little like Judge Dredd.
And when the Star Tribune starts acknowledging that, you have to wonder if even the DFL isn't realizing there's a problem.
