Posted on 02/19/2021 8:02:42 AM PST by BenLurkin
David Gilbert went to prison a revolutionary, raising his fist and scorning authorities who prosecuted him for an infamous 1981 armored truck robbery in which a guard and two police officers were killed.
Four decades later, advocates for the 76-year-old inmate’s release include San Francisco’s chief prosecutor, the son left behind at 14 months old when both his parents were arrested.
“As long as I can remember, I’ve known that the most likely scenario is that my father is going to die in prison,” said Chesa Boudin, sworn in as district attorney last year.
Boudin ran a progressive campaign in which he said visiting his parents Kathy Boudin and Gilbert in prison showed him the criminal justice system was broken
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
San Francisco is nuts.
So dear old Dad screwed up his life and the life of multiple families and it’s the criminal justice system that’s broken???
The robbery began with Boudin dropping off her infant son, Chesa Boudin, at a babysitter’s before taking the wheel of the getaway vehicle, a U-Haul truck. She waited in a nearby parking lot as her heavily armed accomplices drove a red van to the Nanuet Mall, where a Brink’s truck was making a pick-up.
At 3:55 pm, Brink’s guards Peter Paige and Joseph Trombino emerged from the mall carrying bags of money. As they loaded the money into the truck, the robbers stormed out of their van and attacked. One fired two shotgun blasts into the truck’s bulletproof windshield, while another opened fire with an M16 rifle. Paige was hit multiple times in the chest and killed instantly. Trombino was able to fire a single shot from his handgun, but was struck in the shoulder and arm by several rounds, nearly severing his arm from his body.
The truck’s driver, James Kelly, noticing the shooting behind him, fired several rounds at the robbers through a gun port on the door of his truck, but came under heavy gunfire, and took cover underneath the dashboard, but he was hit in the head by glass and bullet shrapnel. The assailants grabbed $1.6 million in cash, got back in their van, and fled the scene.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Brink%27s_robbery#Robbery
This is why the death penalty needs to implemented swiftly and often.
You can’t appeal to Death for release.
Soon, police officers Edward O’Grady, Waverly Brown, Brian Lennon, and Artie Keenan spotted and pulled over the U-Haul truck, with Boudin in the front seat, along with the yellow Honda at an entrance ramp to the New York State Thruway off New York State Route 59. The police were not sure if they had the right truck, since it had been reported that the robbers were all black, while the occupants of this vehicle were white...
Boudin, [the San Francisco prosecutor’s mother!] feigning innocence, pleaded with them to put down their guns and convinced them to drop their guard; Boudin said she remained silent, that the officers relaxed spontaneously.
After the police lowered their guns, six men armed with automatic weapons and wearing body armor emerged from the back of the truck and began firing upon the four police officers. Officer Brown managed to fire two or three rounds at the robbers before he was hit repeatedly by rifle rounds and collapsed on the ground. One robber then walked up to his prone body and fired several more shots into him with a 9mm handgun, ensuring his death. Keenan was shot in the leg, but managed to duck behind a tree and return fire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Brink%27s_robbery#Car_swap_and_second_gunfight
the DA should be disbarred. He shouldn’t be anywhere near this case.
Boo...frickin' hoo.
Isn’t this the sort of situation where one is expected to recuse oneself to eliminate the appearance of impropriety?
Unless you’re a Democrat.
DA trying to release his notorious father from prison. Sounds like a plot twist from one of the Marvel TV shows airing nowadays.
If you really want to be angry:
In 2008, Kathy Boudin was appointed as an adjunct professor at Columbia University School of Social Work... (Wikipedia)
“...best served cold.”
“If you really want to be angry:”
Russel L. Honoré to lead investigation of capital riots.
March 6 will be the fifty first anniversary of Bill Ayres and David Gilbert's Weather Underground bomb makers blew themselves up in a New York townhouse where Dhorn regrettably survived and escaped.
The 60s and 70s are still haunting us.
Gilbert will be eligible for parole in 2058. Cuomo would be a total fool if he commuted his sentence. The people of New York are already after him for killing all those nursing home patients. They were mothers and fathers and grandparents of people who are incensed about what happened. They didn’t need to die.
Bad timing for Chesa. He won’t last long either as DA of San Francisco, as crime and general misery skyrocket in that festering city.
Not by accident.
How nice, using your public service job for personal gain.
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