DA Bragg Drops Charges Against Pro-Life Attacker

“People need to learn accountability for what is happening in this country over the last year, which is this wave of violence by left-wing activists who think that the appropriate response to an opinion they don’t like is either punching, kicking, assaulting or shooting somebody,” Christopher Ferrara, senior counsel with the Thomas More Society, told The Post Friday.

“This lawsuit is about telling people that there is accountability if you viciously assault somebody because you don’t like what she says. You’re going to suffer the consequences, if not criminally, then civilly.”

Ferrara said the DA’s office failed to update Craven Antao about the case when the charges were dropped and has since ignored multiple calls and emails from his law firm.

Craven Antao said she didn’t know the case had been dismissed until she saw her assailant flaunting the news on Instagram.

“I’m feeling disgusted because this is just the careless actions of Alvin Bragg’s DA’s office that’s infamous for this sort of behavior,” the 23-year-old reporter for advocacy group Live Action said in a phone interview.

A spokesperson for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said the office is “taking immediate internal steps in light” of the botched case.

“Every victim deserves their day in court, and our office has reached out to apologize to Ms. Craven Antao for the unacceptable error of missing the discovery deadline,” the spokesperson said in a statement.

“I was using my First Amendment right to free speech to speak about what I believe in, and on top of that, I wasn’t even saying anything that was egregious,” Craven Antao stressed, adding that Rivers had approached her before agreeing to be interviewed about Planned Parenthood and abortion.

“I want her to understand that this is not something that she can continue to do the next time she runs into somebody she disagrees with.”

Ferrara said the outcome might have been different if Rivers had offered a sincere apology.

“It might be a different story if she had some repentance or truly apologized,” Ferrara said, noting the lawsuit will be filed in the coming weeks.

“This is a case of someone who thinks, in this climate, this assassination culture, that she’s totally justified. It’s a very dramatic illustration of the mentality that we’re dealing with.”