Guyanese woman running for District Attorney in New York

Jun 21, 2023 News

By Shervin Belgrave

Kaieteur News – A Guyanese woman from Mahaicony, East Coast of Demerara (ECD), Region Five is competing in next Tuesday’s electoral race to become the District Attorney (DA) of Queens, New York, in the United States of America (USA).

Guyanese Devian Daniels is running for the post of Queens District Attorney

The DA candidate, Devian Daniels, age 42, migrated to the Bronx, New York as a child and is a 2006 graduate of the Cuny Law School in Queens. She has been practicing law in state of New York for 16 years now.

According to her Campaign Committee, Daniels throughout her career has represented a number of clients with civil and criminal matters and Family Court Cases. “She even fought for victims of police brutality and families who had no one else to make sure their rights were protected in the face of adversity time and time again”.

The Guyanese, however, has decided to run for Queens DA because she wants to be a champion of fair justice and end mass incarceration in New York.

In a television interview with New York One, Daniels said, “… I really think that it is important that we reduce biases in our criminal court system so that we could end mass incarcerations and so that we could have a criminal system that could be fair to everyone out there”.

Daniels pointed out that more than 20 years later the Bronx and Queens are still the epicenters for mass incarceration and it bothers her. She believes the root cause might be that the justice system in New York is unfair. Daniels added that mass incarceration is also putting a strain on tax payers because it costs the State hundreds of thousands of dollars every year to keep offenders in New York prisons.

Her campaign committee has stated that her vast experience as a lawyer has given her an inside view of injustices that lie within the New York judiciary system.

“As District Attorney, Devian Daniels would insist that everyone is represented fairly. This includes the most vulnerable groups within our communities; the elderly, the children, the small business owners, the undocumented, and all marginalized groups”, Daniels’ Campaign Committee said.

With elections day scheduled for Tuesday, June 27, 2023, the Campaign Committee is calling on all Guyanese living in Queens to come out on Elections Day and vote Daniels for District Attorney.

Daniels will be competing against current Queens DA, Melinda Katz and George A Grasso, former Administrative Judge of the Queens County Supreme Court.

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