Chesa Boudin
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I'm thrilled to start a new job this week as the Executive Director of Berkeley Law's Criminal Law & Justice Center!
@BerkeleyLawCLJC
Welcoming
@chesaboudin
! As founding executive director of Berkeley Law’s new Criminal Law & Justice Center (
@BerkeleyLawCLJC
), Boudin sees an exciting opportunity to build on his work of transforming the criminal legal system in profound ways.
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In less than 24 hours
my office has received over 1,000 emails
demanding that San Francisco
defund the police department
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My father was granted release on parole today, after more than 40 years in prison! 😭❤️
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My heart is bursting. On the eve of my first child's birth, my dad - who's been in prison nearly my entire life - was granted clemency.
He never intended harm, yet his crime devastated many families.
My heart breaks for the families that can never get their loved ones back.
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Today we announced a formal policy ending the use of money bail by our prosecutors as a condition for pretrial detention.
From this point forward, pretrial detention will be based on public safety, not on wealth.
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You imprison children and separate families. I won't. You use your power to sow hate and fear. I will use mine to protect the vulnerable and provide safety and justice for all.
San Francisco’s dangerous new DA
Great write up by
@kimguilfoyle
who worked in that office for years and understands the insanity of what’s going on in San Fran and CA generally.
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Healthcare professionals demanded we drastically reduce the jail population, so we listened.
On Jan 21, the SF jail population was 1,238.
On March 4, when the emergency was declared, it was 1,097.
Yesterday, it was 766.
Meanwhile, crime rates continue to decrease in SF.
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Today, my office filed homicide charges against the former officer who shot and killed Keita O’Neil, an unarmed, Black man in 2017.
As far as we are aware, this is the first time in San Francisco history that an officer has been prosecuted for homicide.
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Amazing news:
My incarcerated father just got his first vaccine shot!
I hope that once I get my vaccine, and the prison reopens for visitors, I will be able to see him again for the first time in over a year.
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Thank you so much
@BernieSanders
. We’ve got a lot of work to do. But we’ve got the people behind us.
Now is the moment to fundamentally transform our racist and broken criminal justice system by ending mass incarceration, the failed war on drugs and the criminalization of poverty. Congratulations
@chesaboudin
on your historic victory!
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We need to abolish cash bail.
We need to dismantle our racist system of mass incarceration.
We need to expand diversion & restorative justice programs.
We need to focus on uplifting communities rather than decimating them.
Thank you
@AyannaPressley
BREAKING: Rep. Ayanna Pressley unveiled a sweeping resolution calling for state & local govt's to decrease prison populations by 80%, abolish cash bail, stop charging people fines/fees to fund local court systems, among a host of other proposals.
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For decades I’ve been visiting my own parents in prison and fighting for criminal justice reform.
That’s why I’m running for district attorney, to make sure the system works for all of us, not just the rich & powerful.
Please watch our new video and join our movement.
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This week, we
✅Refused to prosecute peaceful protest
✅Called on state bar to ban DAs from taking police union $
✅Made resolution to ban hiring police w/ misconduct history
✅Hired new attny overseeing police misconduct
✅New policy preventing false charges of resisting arrest
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We are immensely proud to receive the endorsement of Senator
@BernieSanders
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Bernie has devoted his life to standing up for overlooked & underserved ppl in America, & understands the dysfunction of our current criminal justice system.
Thank you for your support Bernie! ✊
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Without warning, a small group of peaceful protesters were swarmed and detained by over 100 officers and dozens of police vehicles. All were made to lie on their stomach for upwards of 30 min. This included an SFPD credentialed journalist.
We will not prosecute peaceful protest.
Lying on the ground here with a dozen protesters. Completely surrounded on mission st
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Like so many children with incarcerated parents, I struggled with guilt, anger, & shame. I fell behind in school and had behavioral issues.
We need to end the cycle of incarceration that separates families, hurts kids & communities, and makes us all less safe.
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Like the majority of Americans, I have an immediate family member locked up behind bars.
My dad is in prison & at the age of 75, he is high risk for the virus.
If we forget about incarcerated people we’ll lose to the virus and we’ll lose ourselves.
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On May 31, at appx 5:03 PM, a BLM protester was shoved to the ground by a member of the SF Sheriff's Dept. My office has opened a criminal investigation. If anyone has relevant video/can identify the suspect/witnesses/victims in the video below, email districtattorney
@sfgov
.org
SF police officer shoves man to ground during peaceful protest today
#sfprotest
#BlackLivesMatter
#GeorgeFloydProtests
#GeorgeFloyd
@CNN
@ABC
@MSNBC
@nbcbayarea
@KTVU
@abc7newsbayarea
@LondonBreed
@mercnews
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Anyone want to understand the failings of money bail?
Look no further: strong evidence of a white shooter motivated by racial bias committing a double murder with an assault rifle.
But wealth sets him free.
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Thank you,
@BernieSanders
for your support, solidarity, and commitment to reform our nation’s criminal legal system.
Congratulations to San Francisco for taking this important step. When we are in the White House, we will end cash bail nationwide. No one should be in jail because they are too poor to post bail.
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I have four parents, all over the age of 75.
Randomly, three of them, in two different cities, got their first dose of COVID vaccine today.
My father who has NOT received a vaccine is my parent at highest risk.
He is incarcerated.
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San Francisco's new D.A. learned he won the job while visiting his dad in prison
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This is bigger than us.
We did it.
Come join us tonight. 8:30pm at El Rio. Shaun king will join later in the night.
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Thank you, Justice Sotomayor, for your leadership, the example you set for all of us, and for your thoughtful words of support.
I'm humbled by your support of our movement & I promise to do the work required to make our vision of a just society a reality.
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And we decreased the jail population by 40%.
Meanwhile, crime rates have plummeted by more than 40%.
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My dad is 76 today. Here I am on his shoulders on an early prison visit. Despite the challenges, in many ways I was lucky to have two fathers instead of just one. Still, it's hard to see him get old in a prison cell. Sending love today.
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Rest in power, Senator Mike Gravel.
We are sad to announce that Senator Mike Gravel passed away peacefully, surrounded by family, at his home in Seaside, California. He was 91, and had lived the fullest live anyone could have ever wanted. We will miss him every day.
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Me and my dad in one of our last precious moment of freedom together.
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Today we announced two major policy changes in our office.
The first is to stop charging status sentencing enhancements that contribute to mass incarceration, worsen racial disparities in our system, and make us less safe.
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Our lead is bigger than it has ever been, and we expect it to grow over the coming days.
Our focus right now is on ensuring every vote is counted.
We are so humbled by the number of people continuing to believe in fundamental change.
Our movement is strong.
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In San Francisco we reduced the jail population by 25% since the emergency was declared. We must avoid the tragedy unfolding in NY where my dad is incarcerated. Crime rates are plummeting. Public health and public safety demand reducing jail and prison populations. Immediately.
MY GOD: Today’s numbers (March 28, 2020) for Rikers just released by Legal Aid Society. Outbreak spreading exponentially. Now up to 132. The *infection rate is by far the highest in the world.* This is only getting worse.
@NYGovCuomo
: Release those you promised to release & more.
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I will never use evidence obtained by an officer with a history of misconduct
I will prosecute officers just like anybody else when they break the law
That’s why the police officers association is spending $55,000 to spread misinformation about me and this movement.
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Even though police unions and other law enforcement groups spent over $650,000 to defeat our movement and one of our opponents was appointed as the interim DA, we currently have more first-choice ballots than any other candidate.
Stay strong, San Francisco! ✊
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Fulfilling campaign promises, one by one:
"Boudin bans prosecutions based on sole testimony of untrustworthy police officers"
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This does not feel like reform. 🤔
A San Francisco police officer took a knee with George Floyd protesters during a massive demonstration in the Mission District. The next day, his supervisors sent him home early for insubordination.
via
@mdbarba
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This is a beautiful letter by
@IlhanMN
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We will not defeat hate with anger and exclusion. We will defeat it with compassion.
Thank you.
Sharing my full letter on the the sentencing of Patrick W. Carlineo, a man convicted of threatening my life.
We must apply a system of compassion to criminal justice.
Who are we as a nation if we respond to threats of political retribution with retribution ourselves?
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The presumption of innocence is lost for hundreds of people in jail on account of a single condition: A monetary payment that they can’t afford. As District Attorney, I will not put a price tag on freedom. Pretrial incarceration should be based on public safety, not on wealth.
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I'm outraged by the looting in Union Square last night. We are seeing similar crimes across the country. I have a simple message: don't bring that noise to our City.
Great work by SFPD.
Standby for felony charges.
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Anyone who believes that incarceration is the best way to reduce violence or to rehabilitate MUST read this chilling report.
Fights, beatings and a birth: Videos smuggled out of L.A. jails reveal violence, neglect
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Today our office reduced the sentence of the last person on death row out of SF to a life sentence.
Honored by the words of Sister Helen Prejean: “Hooray for DA Boudin's LIFE over death choice once again for the last condemned human being on San Francisco's death row."
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No matter the verdict, George Floyd's family won't get him back.
Charging officers who abuse the trust we place in them remains a huge hurdle--and prosecutions like this must be normalized in order for real change to come.
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Thank you,
@BernieSanders
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Our system of mass incarceration is racist and must end. In Mississippi prisons there have been 24 deaths in 67 days, overcrowding, medical neglect and inhumane conditions. I stand with the incarcerated, their families and the MS Prison Reform Coalition.
#MSPrisonReformNow
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I signed a letter as one of 40 elected prosecutors condemning the murder of George Floyd.
But words aren't enough. Next week, I announce our actions.
Stay tuned.
1/ BREAKING: 40 elected prosecutors condemn the murder of George Floyd, calling for enhanced police accountability and reforms to address racially-biased policing:
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A new report came out tracking whether police are more likely to stop black people on the road.
SF police had the biggest reported racial disparities: they were 5x more likely to stop black people than their percentage of the population would explain.
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My dad's letter to to the editor of
@nytimes
about lessons learned from his efforts to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS in prison decades ago:
"The best way to improve safety is to reduce the prison population."
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“I will be shocked if the provisionals change this now,” said McDaniel. “It’s very clear to me Boudin will be the winner of the DA’s race and it’s most likely that Dean Preston will win the D5 race.”
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Thank you
@BernieSanders
for being our champion & leading the movement towards progressive reform.
Thank you for always fighting for the working class, for racial equality, immigrant rights, universal healthcare, & criminal justice reform.
Thank you for always fighting for us.
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I want to remind those of us who are able—and especially those of us who benefit from white privilege and don’t have to live in daily fear for our safety—to channel our sadness and righteous rage into working to effect change and combating racism and white supremacy. 3/3
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Yup. Let's do it!
Here’s a basic one: mental health calls should receive immediate response from trained mental health professionals, not the police.
It’s something we wrote into our Mental Health SF legislation. It’s long overdue. Let’s accelerate implementation.
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And today the San Francisco jail population is 722. Crime rate is still falling.
Healthcare professionals demanded we drastically reduce the jail population, so we listened.
On Jan 21, the SF jail population was 1,238.
On March 4, when the emergency was declared, it was 1,097.
Yesterday, it was 766.
Meanwhile, crime rates continue to decrease in SF.
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“I want to be clear—this vision, these ideas—they are not novel. We didn’t win because we pioneered this vision. We won because we amplified the voices that for decades have resisted mass incarceration.”
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"In San Francisco’s post-Chesa Boudin era, it is apparently no longer in the Style Guide for local TV news reporters to put
#NoConsequences
in their crime tweets, or ask theft victims leading questions about whether this crime was all the fault of the District Attorney’s policies
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Sentencing enhancements don’t work. They are the product of a tough on crime sentencing era that led to our racist system of mass incarceration.
These enhancements have torn apart families & communities, all while making us less safe.
It’s time we end them.
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@TayTayAhl
Being poor is not a crime.
Being unhoused is not a crime.
It is unacceptable to seize & destroy someone's property when they leave momentarily to use the restroom.
We must do a better job responding to the homelessness crisis. This is inhumane.
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Breonna Taylor deserves justice. Her life mattered.
We will continue to fight to show that her life continues to matter.
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I’m thinking about the other children affected by my father's crime and want to make sure that nothing I do or say further upsets the victims’ families. Their loved ones will never be forgotten.
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The xenophobic immigration policies set out by the Trump administration have torn families apart, undermined trust in law enforcement, resulted in deaths, miscarriages & sexual assault, and have not made this country any safer.
We will protect our immigrant neighbors.
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San Francisco police reported higher rates of both violent and property crime than over the same period last year. The increases dispel hopes that replacing DA Chesa Boudin would have an effect on crime rates in the city.
Shocker.
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Consider this:
-Median bail in San Francisco is $50K, 5x the national average
-SF Treasurer called pretrial detention, "costly and inefficient when alternative options could ensure public safety and appearance in court."
Enough is enough. It's time to end cash bail
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I thanked a lot of people last night. But I want to send a special thank you to
@seiu1021
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Thank you so much for believing in us.
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Proud that my office was ahead of the curve; we eliminated our use of bail altogether in San Francisco.
The California Supreme Court just ruled in Humphrey that “the common practice of conditioning freedom solely on whether an arrestee can afford bail is unconstitutional.”
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Proud and humbled to stand with
@berniesanders
at his rally in Richmond, California today.
#NotMeUs
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I am so proud of our movement. More people picked us as their first choice for DA than any other candidate. I am humbled.
There are more than 50k votes remaining to be counted, and we won’t know the results for days. I’m confident that when all votes are counted, we will win.
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Today my office initiated a lawsuit against
@doordash
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“I assure you this is just the first step among many to fight for worker safety and equal enforcement of the law"
#PromisesKept
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Instead of criminalizing poverty by prosecuting people who don't have access to bathrooms, San Francisco is building public bathrooms. Thank you
@MattHaneySF
Being poor is not a crime!
There is now a 24 hour public bathroom about every 3 blocks in the Tenderloin & Civic Center.
When I took office there were 0 that were 24 hours.
We have to keep & expand them post-pandemic.
Access to hygiene, bathrooms, water is essential for dignity, health & cleanliness.
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And I am thinking of the other people inside who have worked so hard to transform their lives and hope one day to return home.
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Our movement is winning and we are looking forward to having every vote counted.
Many votes are still on their way to the Department of Elections, and we expect those votes to favor us -- as all of the later votes did.
Let's do this San Francisco. ✊
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"How long before they start to see Chesa Boudin staring back at them when they look in the mirror? When will voters start wondering whether perhaps they recalled the wrong politician?"
Just in time for election season, San Francisco is confronting yet another spike in murders and shootings ... Despite a tough "tone" from the new DA, the cycle of crime continues unabated, providing a bloody reality check for voters and politicians alike.
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Today, I joined 31 other prosecutors and 44 correctional leaders in calling for the closure of youth prisons. As we explain in our letter, conditions in youth prisons were inhumane before the COVID-19 pandemic. Now they are horrific.
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I am so grateful to the Parole Board. I'm also grateful to everyone who has supported my father during his more than 4 decades behind bars.
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In pain tonight as we are all confronted yet again with the reality that our legal system and our policing remain deeply steeped in racism.
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San Francisco!!
We are all feeling the momentum for change in this city!
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Up to now, state law barred anyone with a felony conviction from serving on a jury.
This effectively silenced communities of color & prevented many from being tried by a jury of their peers.
This new law is a great step towards reform.
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As of this morning San Francisco's Dept. of Elections was still processing 70,000 ballots -- including 13,000 provisional ballots.
More updates to come at 4pm.
We want to see every vote counted.
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Social distancing and good hygiene is virtually impossible for those incarcerated or working in jail/prison. If we fail to shrink jail population quickly we should expect numerous preventable deaths in custody because of COVID.
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Incarceration means putting a human being in a cage. We need to critically understand what that means to a person, their family and their community when we do it.
We need to stop normalizing our system of mass incarceration.
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"If you or I, Allie, were to push someone from behind with enough force that they fell into the street -- especially in front of oncoming traffic -- we would be investigated for a crime. No question about it. And a sheriff's captain is no different. They're not above the law"
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Roxsana Hernandez, while detained by ICE, wasn’t properly treated as a rape victim, wasn’t given medication, & suffered from serious beatings.
ICE, against protocol, then destroyed the evidence.
It’s time we hold ICE accountable. This cannot continue.
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I am proud to implement the state's new Primary Caregiver Diversion program, a program obviously close to my heart.
This policy will keep children united with their parents and work to end the generational cycle of incarceration.
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L.A. and S.F. have it right: No children should be prosecuted as adults
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I promised to end mass incarceration. In 2020 we resentenced nearly 40 people who served decades in state prison. Overall, San Francisco's prison population fell by ~25%, and the jail population fell by ~40%.
We are working to expand reentry planning to drive down recidivism.
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I turned 40 this month.
My mom wrote me a birthday poem
a practice learned in prison
when it was the best gift
she could afford to deliver.
It still is.
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Here is a clip of
@shaunking
speaking to the crowd at our victory party.
He is right. This wasn’t about just winning an election. This was about propelling a decarceral, victim-centered movement forward to change this city and make it safe and just for everyone.
Let’s do this.
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Our justice system failed to act swiftly to protect black and brown people and to hold police who kill accountable. All during a pandemic that disproportionately impacts black and brown people & while our president incites violence against immigrants and people of color. 2/3
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Marijuana should not equal incarceration. Especially not a 17 year old case. Time to bring home the Wilson brothers.
My name is Jacque Wilson. I am a Public Defender in San Francisco.
Two of my younger brothers, Neko & Lance, are currently incarcerated.
Lance has asthma, hypertension & has COVID-19.
Neko has asthma.
I need your help to get them out before it’s too late.
This is our story.
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In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, I stand in solidarity with those who advocate for healthcare, housing, and basic financial security as a right as well as emergency policies like:
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I am choosing to put my family first: I will not be running for office in 2022.
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“No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.” --Martin Luther King Jr.
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Our criminal system has been rooted in racism, classism & fearmongering messaging for decades. It’s what led to mass incarceration.
It’s what perpetuated a cycle of poverty & despair that has led to more, not less, crime & victims.
Many are resistant to change, but it’s time.
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The conditions at the border camps are barbaric. So are the conditions in jails and prisons all across this country. We need to end our country’s culture of mass incarceration that normalizes putting humans beings in cages for every transgression.
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Today is my 41st birthday
All I can think about is
My baby, soon, to be
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Feeling very thankful that, so far, we've avoided an outbreak in SF jails.
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How?
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Listening to our amazing jail medical team and implementing these best practice public health policies. We reduced the jail population by more than 40% and saved lives.
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Great to see my dad today and to have my mom and my lady along for the visit.
#family
#wegotusnow
BTW It's really cold in upstate NY!
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I'm continually inspired by Justice Sotomayor's courage and integrity. I'm perpetually appreciative of her supportive words at my inauguration just over a year ago.
Thank you, Justice Sotomayor, for your leadership, the example you set for all of us, and for your thoughtful words of support.
I'm humbled by your support of our movement & I promise to do the work required to make our vision of a just society a reality.
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This is what the homicide case I filed against officer Samayoa was about. A jury should have been allowed to see this video. 👀
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