Contested for his views of the reform of criminal justice, Chesa Boudin, elected in 2020, was the victim of the feeling of insecurity in the Californian city.
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San Francisco, the progressive capital of the country, does it turn right? In a city which has only 7 % of republican voters, the Attorney District was “recalled”, Tuesday, June 7, by a clear majority of voters during a referendum followed with interest throughout the country. Chesa Boudin was the victim of the rise of crime – real in certain categories of crime, fantasized for others. A taste of what is probably waiting for many democratic candidates in the November elections, while security promises to be a major campaign theme.
Since his election, in 2020, Chesa Boudin, 41, was one of the favorite targets of the right Trumpist, who made it the standard bearer of progressive prosecutors, supporters of a reform of criminal justice. Responsible for the office of lawyers committed from San Francisco, tried as an outsider in the local microcosm, he had been elected to a very short majority (2,825 votes). The democratic establishment had not supported his candidacy for a position which aims less to defend than to suppress.
The media were, on the other hand, enthusiastic for the extraordinary journey of this son of anti -system activists passed on the side of the strengthening of the law and the order; With the exception of the conservative channel Fox News, which had mainly retained its end -of -studies internship with the Venezuelan presidency under Hugo Chavez.
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Chesa was 14 months old when her parents left him at the Baby-Sitter, one day in 1981, in New York, not to reappear. Members of the anti -imperialist group Weather Underground, David Gilbert and Kathy Boudin had been arrested for a robbery that left three dead – including two police officers. The child was raised in Chicago by two other figures of the movement, the academics Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
After forty years of detention, the father, David Gilbert, benefited from a sentence; He came out of prison, at the end of December 2021. Kathy Boudin, descendant of a long line of left magistrates – his father had defended Fidel Castro – spent twenty years under the locks, before being released, in 2003. Has his law studies in Yale, then was selected for the prestigious Rhodes scholarship in Oxford. From childhood, he had noticed that he was often the only white in the queue for the prison visitor. He promised to try to remedy racial injustices in the judicial system, a popular theme in an archiprogressist city.
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