Alvin Bragg drops charges against woman who attacked pro-life advocate



In the middle of conducting man-on-the-street-style interviews for her YouTube channel, “Her Patriot Voice,” pro-life advocate Savannah Craven Antao was attacked by a woman named Brianna Rivers — and New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg just dropped all charges against her.

“She’s out there on the streets. This woman walks up and the interview — I don’t know, I’m going to say it escalated very quickly,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales comments.

Antao asked basic questions about Rivers’ beliefs surrounding abortion, to which the woman answered that if a woman doesn’t want a baby, she should “just get rid of it.”

“What happens in an abortion?” Antao asked.


“They literally suck the life out of you. They’re going to take the whole baby out. And as they should, because I shouldn’t be a taxpayer paying child support and food stamps,” Rivers replied, audibly yelling.

“You should be a taxpayer paying for abortions?” Antao asked again.

“Exactly. For a woman who didn’t want the baby in the first place, that doesn’t make sense to me. Don’t ever sit here and lock yourself down with a man who already told you he doesn’t want to be with you,” Rivers said.

“But you don’t get to kill the baby just because their dad didn’t want that,” Antao replied.

“You can,” Rivers said, to which Antao replied, “Should we kill the kids in foster care?”

“Why not!” Rivers screamed.

When Antao brought up that the woman appeared to be okay with killing not only unborn babies but babies in foster care, Rivers punched her in the face.

Antao was faced with stitches and $3,000 in medical bills, and Rivers was charged with second-degree assault.

“But it was dropped because Alvin Bragg’s office apparently is full of DEI hires, I guess. I don’t know. They missed a key filing deadline, and they didn’t even turn over evidence to the court in time,” Gonzales says. “Imagine letting the real criminals, the violent criminals, run free because you can’t be bothered to hit your deadlines.”

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Woman who apparently punched pro-life activist during street interview has been arrested



A woman who appeared to assault a pro-life interviewer on video was arrested by the New York Police Department.

Savannah Craven Antao said on Instagram that she was notified about the arrest of 30-year-old Brianna J. Rivers, who was recorded laughing after apparently punching Antao in the head during a street interview in Harlem.

'Thank you detectives at the 28th precinct NYC!'

Antao was interviewing people on the topic of abortion for the Live Action pro-life advocacy group when she encountered Rivers, who is a vehement supporter of abortion rights. After debating the issue for several minutes, Rivers punches Antao without warning and then walks away, video showed.

Rivers then yelled, "Suck my ****," to Antao's husband, who was filming the incident.

The 23-year-old pro-life activist suffered a laceration in her eyebrow and posted to social media an image of her bloodied face.

“Just got word from detectives Brianna J Rivers was arrested! God is good!” said Antao in an Instagram post on Thursday. "Thank you detectives at the 28th precinct NYC!"

Rivers had tried to justify her actions by calling Antao a "professional antagonist" and accused her of deceptively editing the video posted to social media.

"I understand hands being put on someone is never the answer, but throwing rocks and hiding hands is worse,” said Rivers. “She knows the truth and she needs to release the footage in its entirety."

Live Action president and founder Lila Rose released a defiant statement saying her organization would not be intimidated and would continue to press for the defunding of abortion provider Planned Parenthood.

The New York Post said neither Rivers nor Antao responded to a request for comment.

Here's the video of the altercation from Live Action:

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