Kada Scott was a beauty queen and Miss USA hopeful who went missing while on her way to work in early October. A short while later, authorities found human remains in a wooded area behind an abandoned Philadelphia school. Those remains belonged to Scott.
She was 23 years old.
Keon King, 21, was later arrested and faces multiple charges related to Scott's death. King was a career criminal with multiple repeat arrests, including charges of kidnapping and assault.
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner's office dropped those charges, letting King walk free. Now an innocent woman is dead.
It's not the first time, either.
In 2018, Krasner's office approved a plea deal for 29-year-old Jovaun Patterson, who shot a West Philly deli owner with an AK-47 during an attempted robbery. Prosecutors dropped the attempted murder charge against Patterson, instead giving him three to ten years in state prison. Following backlash, Krasner's office tried to reverse the plea deal.
That same year, his office cut a deal with Carlton Hipps and Ramone Williams, two more career criminals who killed a Philadelphia cop, Sgt. Robert Wilson III. According to the Washington Free Beacon, Hipps and Williams were represented by defense attorneys Michael Coard and Daniel Stevenson, who also donated $2,700 to Krasner's campaign. Coard served on Krasner's transition team and called police "modern versions of colonial-era slave patrols."
That was also the year that defendant Michael White stabbed and murdered Philadelphia resident Sean Schellenger. United States Attorney William M. McSwain spoke of this case at the Citizens’ Crime Commission of the Greater Delaware Valley’s Quarterly Meeting:
And then there’s the case of Michael White, the man accused of stabbing and killing Philadelphia resident Sean Schellenger last summer. Krasner’s pretrial maneuvers – dropping first degree murder charges in favor of third degree, and then more recently his motion to dismiss even the third-degree murder charge against White – framed the factual issues in the defendant’s favor by limiting the jury’s options and paving the way for the defendant to put the victim’s character on trial. The pretrial motion Krasner submitted claimed that his office would fare better with a jury arguing voluntary manslaughter rather than third degree murder. But let’s face it: the only person who fares better with that maneuver is the defendant, Michael White.
And earlier this year, Krasner's office withdrew all charges against a retail theft ring known as the "Diaper Crew." Despite a crime spree that saw the group target drug stores and dollar stores, Krasner's office dropped all charges related to retail theft, receiving stolen property, and conspiracy against Byran Jordan-Prince, Lytrell Scott, and Daquan Johnson.
We share all of this because Krasner's finally decided he's found "criminals" he wants to prosecute: the men and women of ICE and the National Guard.
To ICE and the National Guard: if you commit crimes in Philadelphia, we will charge you and hold you accountable to the fullest extent of the law. pic.twitter.com/RoHV1N9MEH
— Larry Krasner (@LarryKrasnerDA) January 11, 2026
Homeland Security found that Kasner's threats weren't all that intimidating.
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) January 11, 2026
Nor should they be. The Supremacy Clause provides federal officers — including ICE agents and National Guardsmen — with immunity from state criminal prosecution if their actions are authorized under federal law and "necessary and proper" to perform their duties.
Make no mistake: Krasner knows this. There is no world in which he doesn't know this. There isn't a doubt in my mind he won't try to prosecute ICE agents and National Guardsmen, however. The process will be the punishment, requiring these agents to spend time and lots of money to defend themselves, while opening up their families to harassment and threats from Leftists.
But Democrats, who have spent the last year complaining about President Trump weaponizing the government against his political opponents, are fine with this. They don't hide the fact that they were the ones who started that weaponization and plan to continue it once Trump is gone.
It also shows that Democratic District Attorneys like Krasner can enforce the laws when they choose to. They won't do it to protect innocent Philadelphians like Kada Scott or Sean Schellenger, of course. That would be "racist." Krasner is the embodiment of lawfare and the weaponization of government. But Democrats are fine with that too, because it's (D)ifferent when they do it.
And it's time the federal government started making examples of guys like Krasner. This lawfare and selective prosecution must end.
