SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Far-left San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin has opened the gates to jails under his jurisdiction for “safety” reasons related to the COVID-19 pandemic, releasing almost half the inmates.
Fortunately, his own father is not incarcerated in his jurisdiction otherwise he would have likely cut him loose as well. Now Boudin wants his father released under the same auspices which he cut inmates in California loose.
Boudin’s father, a radical left-wing activist (much like Boudin) was convicted in connection with a botched armed robbery in which two police officers and a security guard were killed in 1981.
Boudin has a soft place for criminals since both his father AND mother were locked up for the botched robbery.
“My earliest memories are going through metal detectors and steel gates just to visit my parents, just to be able to give them a hug,” Boudin told an interviewer. Very touching.
“So, my experience has shown me that the system is broken, and we need to fix it. We need to start investing in prevention, in healing, in re-entry. And that’s exactly what we’re doing in San Francisco,” he said.
Boudin’s parents, David Gilbert and Kathy Boudin were members of the anarchist group Weather Underground, which was a militant left-wing organization that was founded at the University of Michigan, with a goal of ending so-called American imperialism.
In the 1981 robbery, Gilbert and Boudin acted as getaway drivers in the botched robbery of a Brink’s armored truck. A shootout ensued, and the two police officers and security guard were killed by the couple’s accomplices.
Boudin’s mother ended up serving 22 years while his father, now 75 and still locked up is serving a 75-to-lofe sentence at the Shawangunk Correctional Facility in Ulster County, N.Y.
Boudin was raised by two other radicals you may have heard of…Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. They were both also members of the Weather Underground, which was responsible for bombings at government buildings such as the Capitol, the Pentagon and the State Department.
While Boudin’s parents were locked up, he was raised by Ayers and Dohrn from the time he was a toddler. No wonder at all why Boudin sympathizes with criminals…he was raised by them.
As an interesting aside, Barack Obama launched his political career for state senate in 1996 at the home of Ayers and Dohrn. According to National Review, Obama had steered hundreds of thousands of dollars of educational foundation grants to projects under Ayers’ control. Obama claimed that he didn’t know about the radical terrorist roots of Ayers and Dohrn, however given their history, that was deemed not likely.
In seeking his father’s release, Boudin speaks to the fact that his father allegedly didn’t carry a weapon during the robbery and has a clean disciplinary record during his time in prison, now numbering 38 years.
“Every time my father goes to the telephone to call me or my mother, he’s taking his life in his hands,” Boudin said.
It is unknown whether his father had any such consideration for the two police officers and security guard he was complicit in the murder of.
The officers who were killed were Nyack, N.Y. Off. Waverly Brown and Sgt. Edward O’Grady, while the Brinks guard was Peter Paige. Officer Brown left behind three children and his mother, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page. Sgt. O’Grady, a veteran of the war in Vietnam, was survived by his wife and three children. Paige left his wife. Just for a little bit of context as to what this guy was partially responsible for.
Boudin said that his father recently had an inmate next to him moved after being diagnosed with COVID-19, Boudin said.
“He presents no public safety risk, and yet he’s still incarcerated in conditions and circumstances that very directly threaten his life. It’s a terrible use of resources. It’s a terrible risk to his life. And not only that, but all of the people who work and live in this prison.”
Boudin of course has never met a prisoner he didn’t like. He ran on a platform of virtually emptying the jails in San Francisco of inmates, and he has refused to prosecute most so-called “low-level” crimes.
Earlier this year, he released a man from custody who was shot by police officers after he brutally attacked one of them with a liquor bottle, sending the officer to the hospital.
Boudin decided to “withdraw the complaint” against the suspect, which drew the ire of the San Francisco Police Officers Association.
“That’s just lawyer talk, technically they said they’re withdrawing the complaint; if you read between the lines, that’s exactly what they’re doing, they’re dropping the charges,” said union president Tony Montoya.
What further angered law enforcement officers in San Francisco was what Boudin said:
“The decision we made was one that frankly is in the best interests of the officers because they’re both being investigated right now by our internal investigation bureau into their use of firearms in the incident.
“It would be improper and unfair to put them on the witness stand, to testify against Mr. Hampton while they’re being investigated for their use of force.
“Until both investigations can be completed, we’re going to withhold making a final decision about who to charge with what.”
“Who to charge with what.” Boudin was alleging that he was at least considering the police officer(s) would be charged for using deadly physical force in defense of their lives and in the face of having a deadly weapon used against one of them.
Back to the present, Boudin spoke of his disdain for the prison system.
“I knew firsthand and through years of study and professional experience that sending people to jail and prison at the unprecedented and unparalleled rates that we do in the United States…actually makes us less safe. It actually increases crime. It fails to rehabilitate, and it fails to invest in healing the harm that crime victims suffer,” Boudin said.
Read that back…sending people to jail “actually makes us less safe…it actually increases crime.” Copy that Boudin.
When Boudin ran for election, the San Francisco Police Officers Association strongly opposed his election, and his actions since he was elected seem to back that decision up. They teamed up with other law enforcement agencies to spend $650,000 in polling ant attack ads against Boudin, calling him “the number one choice of criminals and gang members.”
This was in response to Boudin’s promise to embark on “more prosecutions of police officers,” while naming those specific officers he would have charged.
In National Review, Dan McLaughlin refers to Boudin as a “left-wing radical who is ideologically opposed to previous successes and who takes an adversarial stance toward the entire enterprise of law enforcement”
We suppose one can argue that perhaps a 75-year-old man is relatively harmless given the COVID-19 pandemic. However, tell that to the six now-adults who never had the chance to have a father while they were growing up because of that man’s actions.
Sorry, actions have consequences.
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