Last year, when the San Francisco police union spent $65,000 to stop the election of district attorney candidate Chesa Boudin, it warned that the radical leftist was “putting our families at risk” and that his “reckless policies will cost lives.”
Those policies including not prosecuting certain drunk drivers and not adding gang enhancement penalties to crimes such as rape and murder. Boudin vowed to ignore “quality-of-life” crimes and stop “mass incarceration.”
The cops were right. Boudin is now partly responsible for two killings because he did not apply the state’s three-strikes law to keep a violent felon in jail.
But that’s what happens when voters elect a Marxist as chief law-enforcement officer.
The Killings
Troy McAlister, an estimable man Boudin thought should be “decarcerated,” mowed down two people after he zoomed through a red light in a stolen car on New Year’s Eve, authorities allege. One victim was 60, the other 27.
McAlister stole the car, the NBC Bay Area affiliate reported, from a woman he met on a dating website.
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McAlister might have landed in prison for life if Boudin hadn’t freed him in April, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Cops had jailed him in 2018 in connection with a stickup at a store in 2015. Boudin was his attorney in that case. But even more disturbing, cops arrested McAlister several times since his release, but Boudin refused to prosecute him.
The previous district attorney, leftist George Gascón, apparently said McAlister had three strikes last year, the Chronicle reported. But between then and now, Boudin was elected head prosecutor and freed the career criminal:
The office dismissed the strikes last March in a plea deal prosecutors negotiated two months after Chesa Boudin became district attorney, records show. McAlister, who had been eligible for a sentence of up to 40 years to life in prison, was given credit for serving five years and released on parole.…
His prior strikes were for a robbery in 1995, an attempted carjacking in 2005 and another robbery in 2010. His record shows additional serious convictions in 2006 and 2007….
Boudin enacted a policy to not charge prior strikes, with the exception of “extraordinary circumstances” that “present unusual risks of harm.” Boudin said in a memo that the law was “a legacy of California’s ‘tough on crime’ era, an era that fueled mass incarceration and disparately impacted communities of color.”
Frighteningly, leftist Gascón is now the chief prosecutor in Los Angeles, where he is pursuing similar crazy policies. He opposes the three-strikes law and other state tough-on-crime statutes. LA County prosecutors have sued him because he is violating state law, they say.
Had Boudin’s policy not killed two people, his response would be amusing. “It is clear that law enforcement agencies must do a better job communicating with one another,” the leftist said.
The Sacramento County DA wasn’t so dismissive. “He was let go time and time again,” Anne Marie Schubert told the NBC Bay Area affiliate, “and now we are in this very tragic situation.”
Even worse, again, Boudin was McAlister’s public defender for the armed robbery in 2015, which raises the question of whether he acted unethically.
“When we put a public defender, a criminal defense lawyer in office to be the chief law enforcement officer of the county,” Schubert told NBC Bay Area, “you can expect … that the interest will lie with those charged with crimes, those convicted of crimes, rather than with potential victims.”
Boudin Kept His Promise to Free Criminals:
That Boudin freed McAlister to kill two people is unsurprising for two reasons. The leftist DA is doing what he said would do, and his parents and namesake are cop-murderers.
“We will not prosecute cases involving quality-of-life crimes,” he said when he ran for office:
Crimes such as public camping, offering or soliciting sex, public urination, blocking a sidewalk, etc., should not and will not be prosecuted. Many of these crimes are still being prosecuted, we have a long way to go to decriminalize poverty and homelessness.
As NBC reported during his campaign, the “transformative justice” candidate said he would end “mass incarceration,” and then even turn his prosecutorial guns on federal immigration agents. Aside from ending cash bail and reversing “wrongful” convictions, Boudin promised that he would not cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and prosecute agents who trespass the city’s sanctuary laws.
And, of course, he opposes the state’s three-strikes law and broke it himself when he freed McAlister.
The Boudin platform summarized: Jail cops for doing their jobs, free violent criminals to steal cars and kill people.
That aside, San Franciscans had another reason to suspect Boudin would side with criminals.
His biological parents, Weather Underground terrorists Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, murdered two cops. Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn raised him. Leonard Boudin, his maternal grandfather, was a notorious communist lawyer who represented Fidel Castro. He is named for terrorist Joanne Chesimard, another cop murderer, who now lives in Cuba under the alias Assata Shakur.
H/T: Legal Insurrection
