SAN FRANCISCO
Lee Heidhues 12.15.2023
Never mind that the political animal San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins conned and lied her way into office on the back of her one time boss. Progressive DA Chesa Boudin.
Turning her back on the man who promoted her career. Quitting in October 2021. Calling herself a “volunteer” as she campaigned to recall Chesa Boudin. All the while being paid over 150K for her political “volunteer” gig. Then being rewarded handsomely by Mayor London Breed for doing the Mayor’s political chores. Being handed the DA job after Chesa was politically lynched on June 7, 2022.
A shameful action backed with nearly 9M in right wing money and supported by Mayor Breed.
A DA who has torn to shreds everything put in place by her predecessor. Including dropping charges and refusing to prosecute dirty cops who were under Chesa’s microscope of treating all law breakers equally.
Has the crime situation improved on her watch during the past 18 months? Not in the least. Though DA Jenkins brandishes her few successful prosecutions as evidence of her stalwart performance.
What are the DA’s priorities? Unctuously announcing that she is going to throw the full weight of her office. Prosecuting 80 people who engaged in civil disobedience protesting the Israeli military assault against Gaza during the November APEC conference in San Francisco.
Several weeks earlier Brooke Jenkins, following an uproar in the Arab American community, deleted a tweet in which she characterized a rally in support of Palestinians as a “pro-Hamas” event, saying she only meant to condemn a piece of anti semitic graffiti that appeared downtown.
Some courageous crime fighter is our political DA.
Excerpted from The San Francisco Chronicle 12.15.2023
“While we must protect avenues for free speech, the exercise of free speech can not compromise public safety. The demonstration on the Bay Bridge that snarled traffic for hours had a tremendous impact on those who were stuck on the bridge for hours and required tremendous public resources to resolve,” District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said in a statement. “I would like to commend the California Highway Patrol and San Francisco Sheriff’s Department for their work to peacefully resolve this incident.”
Eighty people will be charged with unlawful public assembly, among other misdemeanors, for a November protest that shut down traffic across the Bay Bridge for hours, the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office announced Friday.
On the morning of Nov. 16, protesters shut down the westbound lanes of the Bay Bridge, calling for a cease fire in Gaza while world leaders met in San Francisco for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. Now, 80 individuals will face five misdemeanor charges each, according to the district attorney’s office.
Just before 8 a.m., dozens of protesters stopped their cars and began demonstrating in the middle of the bridge, holding up banners and chanting slogans over bullhorns. Many of them chained their arms together inside of tubes to make removing them more difficult. It took law enforcement four hours to arrest the protesters and remove their cars so traffic could resume. In total, 82 people were arrested, according to a spokesperson for California Highway Patrol.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/bay-bridge-protesters-charged-18557387.php
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