Posted on 06/27/2008 7:52:55 AM PDT by SmithL
Just a week ago, her two-story house on a quiet street in San Francisco's Excelsior district was a bustling place, crammed with sports gear and trophies and team portraits, where she and her husband of 21 years were raising their four children.
But in just seconds on Sunday, her family was torn apart: Her husband, Tony, 48, and the couple's sons Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16, were shot and killed as they drove home from a family barbecue in Fairfield.
What is left at home, for Danielle Bologna, is only stark silence.
"I went back there one time," she said Thursday. "It was extremely cold. It was empty. It was the cold, the silence.
"It was hard seeing my kids' things all over ... my husband's shoes, his work stuff, his clothes, jackets all over."
Danielle Bologna says she wants San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris - who has pledged never to seek the death penalty - to understand a little of what she must endure and to seek the death penalty for her family's killer.
"The district attorney really needs to pay attention - she doesn't have kids, she doesn't know what this means," Bologna said.
Prosecutors filed three counts of murder and other charges Thursday against Edwin Ramos, 21, of El Sobrante, an alleged street gang member who police say opened fire on the Bolognas after their car briefly blocked Ramos from completing a left turn down a narrow street. The charges include special circumstances that could carry the death penalty.
But Harris had long promised to not seek the death penalty in the city. After taking strong criticism for quickly ruling out the death penalty against the gang member ultimately convicted of killing...
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
What’s wrong with SF? Is there some strange radiation leaking up from the ground that fries peoples’ brains there or something????..............
with this liberal minded prosecutors, I predict the times are very close to citizens taking the laws into their own hands and dispensing quick justice on their own.
Kamala Harris...she is featured in this month’s “MORE” magazine. I believe she is an Obama advisor.
The rseult of commie bag fastards.
“Widow pleads for death penalty...”
Doesn’t she realize where she LIVES?
I think there’s still a lot of LSD floating around in the air there.
San Fransisco type dims are now running the country, and obama is just another of the ilk trying to take charge. Who is going to be the Republican to stand up to this crap? I'm waiting.....
PS Is the San Fran DA a homo?
I agree, had that been my family, I would have gone hunting...start at the bottom and work up...never mind the police you furry little bastards...worry about what I will do to you when I get you.
Those dumb clowns out there are more interested in legalizing gay/lesbian weddings than good old fashioned justice. It has to happen to one of their own to finally wake up. I pray for this mother in her loss. Something has to “start a ‘reverse’ revolution” out there.
This story turns my stomach. The death penalty should be applied to the murderers surely and swiftly. Let it be a lesson to the other vermin who think gangs are untouchable.
My wife would be out hunting them down too. And had I been left behind so would I.
The district attorney really needs to pay attention - she doesn’t have kids, she doesn’t know what this means,” Bologna said.
This isn’t going to get Harris’ attention or sympathy. It was just a few typical white people who died. No big deal.
When a child is diagnosed with a terminal illness, that's a tragedy. When a subhuman (and probably illegal) gang member murders three innocent citizens in cold blood, it is not a tragedy, it is an outrage.
When the district attorney cannot understand the difference it is pathetic.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
San Francisco
no Guns for honest people
only death and Murder, as San Francisco coddles
Murdering Gangsters
Mostly Illegals protected By San Francisco.
Gavin Newsome friend to Killers
I dunno but I think you can say fag bastards here at FR.....Hey, "if the foo $h!t$, wear it"!
No revelation here. Not only will they not go for the death penalty, they will defend the gangbangers rights and probably defend him with an excuse like... he ate too many twinkies as a child and therefore it is not his fault.
I submitted the screen play for this one...seriously.
Woman is widowed by a sociopath in a “no death penalty” state. Takes the large insurance settlement and buys a rifle and gun club membership. Buys a kit to make it a sniper rifle and learns to shoot it at looooong range. Yada, yada, yada...she whacks him.
Sorry...no takers on the screenplay.
Maybe I should have sent it directly RKO...or PickFair!
Ah yes......San Fransicko..
Sanctuary City by the Bay......
Welcoming illegal immigrants with open open and empty heads.
Odds are 100% that the M13 Gang Banger who killed these folks, was an illegal immigrant, and one with prior criminal record who probably had no business being on the streets...
This will NOT change, until it is the families of politicians who get killed routinely on the streets — or until the dumb asses targeted by the killers start to realize that the morons they elect are allowing this to happen......in fact - even encouraging it by supporting illegal immigration and failing to prosecute to the full extent of the law...
San Fransicko’s police chief and District Attorney are more politically correct that competent.
Bologna San Francisco - 292 (victim, the shooting suspect's name was not known until yesterday)
Higdon Henderson - 2,034 (the shooter)
More Society of Professional "Journalists" PC guidelines crap?
Both senseless, tragic acts and guns did it! but -- from the start each shooter's ethnicity was known. As I recall the reports at the time of the shooting witnesses gave police descriptions of the shooter's car and occupants.
Though Harris was the first public official in California to endorse Obama for president, she doesn’t volunteer much about their friendship, which began a few years ago during his race for U.S. Senate, when they were introduced by mutual pals. Almost the same age (he’s 45, she’s 42), with similarly polyglot backgrounds (white mother, Kenyan father; Indian mother, Jamaican father), they instantly clicked; they even look like brother and sister, points out Harris’s mother, UC Berkeley scientist Dr. Shyamala Harris. In addition to their movie-star charisma, they share post–baby boomer centrist-progressive politics and a big-picture way of thinking about the world that transcends race and class. Trained as lawyers and activists, Obama and Harris are not given to revolutionary talk or grandstanding gestures; instead, both approach their work as pragmatists and conciliators, always searching for common ground. Indeed, they seem so similar that someone who’s been both a booster and a critic of Harris tells me, “She’s like a female Barack Obama.”
I completely connect with this woman, and pray God hears the prayers of the widow.
This is sad and tragic...and kudos to this woman for asking for the death penalty
Problem is that many GOPers share a lot of the similar pro-crime pro-illegal panderings of the far left. Many GOPers (McCain) support illegal alien amnesty...and would allow moral pig scum like MS-13 to remain in the country. You also have GOPers like Hannity now getting weak on the death penalty
We must deport all illegals, and, enforce the death penalty. No illegal has more rights than an American citizen...and no criminal has more rights than a victim
My wife’s attitude would be “You’d better hope the police get to you first.” Then there would be a series of slow, painful deaths in the following weeks. I’m more merciful, I’d just shoot them.
There, fixed it! Sad the prosecutor doesn't know the difference...
And the death penalty for gang-bangers that commit cold-blooded murder like this should be quick, painful, and PUBLIC. Slice the bastard's head off and put it on a pike. Problem solved.
Sometimes it pays to read popular magazines.
A popular magazine on women had an article on Ms. Harris recently.
She is an Obama supporter.
She also was praised by AHNULD’s Chief of Staff, a Ms. KENNEDY and a DEMOCRAT.
The Republican Party will die in November if McCain can’t beat Obama. And if that happens, it NEEDS to go.
Don’t look to the Republicans.
The Republican Party is FINISHED - OVER - DEAD, GONE.
It has lost all purpose for existance. Its totally incapable of providing an effect foil to the communists and socialists in the Democrat Party. On the contrary, it CONSPIRES with them.
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Silly FReepers, liberals restrict the death penalty only to unborn babies. Convicted murderers are deemed more worthy and are protected from state-sponsored killing.
I doubt the police would look to hard insomuch as Kamala refused to go for the death penalty when one of their own was gunned down by a gangbanger. The police hate her. At least the ones with any spine.
When The Big One wipes out San Francisco, there will finally be justice in that ungodly place.
And prayers for you, and your family, also.
The Mayor is blaming the NRA.
Everyone knows the NRA supports illegals having illegal weapons...wrong.
Does MS-13 has 527 status in San Fransicko? They probably elected the district attorney.
has => have...sorry
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