Pro-life activist sucker-punched during NYC street interview files lawsuit after DA Alvin Bragg drops case
A conservative influencer who was slugged in the face by an unhinged pro-abortion crusader has accused progressive Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg of botching the case against her attacker, who won’t face charges after leaving her battered and bloodied.
Savannah Craven Antao, a 23-year-old pro-life activist, was sucker-punched by a woman while she was conducting man-on-the-street interviews in Harlem in April.
Her attacker, Brianna J. Rivers, was arrested and charged with felony assault, but Bragg’s officer later downgraded the charge to a misdemeanor — and then flubbed the “onerous” discovery requirements, leading the case to be tossed.

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In a new civil case filed Tuesday by Craven Antao against Rivers, the conservative influencer claims the DA used a loophole to assign the case to a student “non-lawyer.”
The suit — which isn’t against Bragg or his office — alleges that the speedy trial dismissal in July was “because the inexperienced nonlawyer assigned to the case under a ‘student practice’ rule allowed the discovery deadline to lapse.”
Bragg had apologized for botching the case in September, blaming a transfer to a new prosecutor.
The suit also accuses prosecutors of refusing to refile charges as a felony and declining to pursue hate crime charges — despite evidence that Rivers’ attack “was committed in the context of her mockery of [Antao’s] Christian beliefs.”

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“I have to look over my shoulder and worry about if somebody who supports her actions — there are a lot of people out there that do — that they’re going to try to do something else,” Craven Antao told Fox News Digital this week.
“Because what the DA Alvin Bragg himself has shown to people, with letting this case be dropped, is that they can go assault somebody and hurt them if they disagree with them and nothing is going to happen.”
Craven Antao’s pro-bono lawyers from the conservative Thomas More Society claim that Rivers “knowingly, willfully and maliciously continued to mock [Antao] and her views online in order to further inflict emotional distress,” including posting t-shirts boasting of the attack.
“Rivers posted photo [sic] of a t-shirt with the logo ‘BAM!’ and a fist hitting a face, which she and her cousin apparently produced and marketed in order to raise money for her legal fees,” the filing alleges.

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The suit also lists a long list of posts “liked” by Rivers in support of her tortious and criminal conduct, including one user who said, “You ain’t hit that girl hard enough.”
Rivers told The Post in September that Craven Antao is “just fishing for more clicks and empathy and targeting me for harassment.”
“I was apologetic to her,” Rivers said. “I felt sorry about the situation. She wants to continue to just kind of drag it out.”

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Craven Antao said the vicious assault left her with stitches — and over $3,000 in medical bills.
“First, I’d really appreciate my over $3,000 in medical bills to be paid off, because I should not be responsible for those,” Craven Antao told Fox News Digital.
“Second, it’s to send a message — hopefully to show her that she can’t do this again,” she continued.
The Manhattan DA’s office did not respond to a request for comment.
