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You're more familiar with this than me, so I wish you would be less ambiguous and give more context. The people who were killed to rob the armored truck were t
by perl4ever 5y ago
You're more familiar with this than me, so I wish you would be less ambiguous and give more context.
The people who were killed to rob the armored truck were the guards, not the police officers. The officers stopped them trying to get away. If I'd read about that, I'd forgotten. So I resolved the apparent inconsistency by assuming you meant the guards.
Now in the page about the robbery, I see the section titled "Car swap and second gunfight": (although, "This section does not cite any sources")
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Brink%27s_robbery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Brink%27s_robbery
So, after reading that, I would definitely not argue that 20 years in prison was too much. She may not have actually shot anyone, but I agree, was complicit. I don't think it was obviously too short a sentence, because of, like I said before, George Floyd's killer getting ~20 years.
But Gilbert isn't out. And I don't see (ctrl-F) what exactly he did. I can't judge Chesa Boudin if he has made some argument to defend his father unless I were to read it.
Since Gilbert didn't make a defense at trial, and Kathy Boudin plea-bargained, is it possible to say what specific actions they were imprisoned for?
There is a quote: "Our goal is to see that these people, who have contempt for society and have shown no remorse, will never see the streets of society again"
This seems to underline it was a political judgment, not about what was done, but about what they might do in the future. That doesn't make it arbitrary or incorrect, but it is about something other than the physical actions of those involved.
If you want to talk about why Kathy Boudin shouldn't have been released, that seems external to the topic of what Chesa Boudin has said or done that is unacceptable or reprehensible. It wasn't him that made that decision, was it? It seems like it should be moot now anyway. Surely the ongoing issue is his father?
- spoonjim 5y agohttps://apnews.com/article/prosecutor-son-father-release-1981-heist-a4b2347125a34f321fac0cf7ddd6b5d6 https://apnews.com/article/prosecutor-son-father-release-198... You started this sub thread with “His parents were convicted of felony murder. That is not a violent crime per se.” I hope you now have the facts to see that Chesa Boudin is pleading for clemency for a terrorist murderer. That is not the kind of person who should be a DA! That is the job of a defense attorney, and Chesa would have been a great candidate for the SF Public Defender’s office. But when you hire a criminal apologist to be the city’s prosecutor you get predictably disastrous results.