[1]Real Justice

John, when
right-wing conservatives and police unions succeed in their efforts to
remove our progressive District Attorneys from office, it means that
police officers are able to escape accountability. 

We are seeing this right now in San Francisco where District Attorney
Brooke Jenkins recently announced that she will dismiss the charges
against the officers who killed an unarmed man, leaving his 84-year old
mother wondering if she’ll ever see justice for her son during her
lifetime.

As you recall, DA Jenkins came into office after conservative billionaires
successfully replaced Chesa Boudin through a sham recall campaign that was
heavily funded by GOP megadonors and the police union.

Jenkins left Chesa's office in 2021, shared confidential documents over
her personal email of a case that was at the center of the recall
campaign's argument against Chesa, was "coincidentally" paid six figures
by a non-profit linked with the main funders of the recall, and then was
named as the new DA after their smear campaign succeeded.

In her first few weeks, she fired some of the most passionate, highly
experienced prosecutors in the office, including the prosecutors who were
working to hold SFPD officers accountable for committing murder.

And now, DA Jenkins is choosing to NOT hold cops accountable for crimes
they commit. She has stated that she will not prosecute the officers who
killed Keita O’Neil and Sean Moore.

This is what happens when we are unable to defend our DAs against
right-wing billionaires — our justice champions are replaced with DAs like
Jenkins who will roll back all of our work and refuse to hold police
accountable.

We saw it in San Francisco. And now our opponents are using SF as a
playbook to roll back our work nationwide. We are seeing it in Texas,
where conservatives have introduced bills to make it easier to remove DAs
from office. And we are seeing it in St. Louis, where conservatives are
working to strip Kim Gardner of her power as Circuit Attorney.

And we know that if they succeed, they will want to replace our justice
champions with DAs like Brooke Jenkins.



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The officers who killed Sean Moore and Keita O’Neil were the first SFPD
officers ever charged for killing someone on-duty — a historic first that
was made possible because we worked so hard to elect Chesa Boudin as San
Francisco DA in 2019.

In 2017, Sean Moore was having a mental health crisis and in need of
medical care. San Francisco police officer Kenneth Cha pepper sprayed him,
beat him, and shot him twice.

Sean died of his gunshot wounds 3 years later. Officer Cha was charged
with voluntary manslaughter and assault with an automatic firearm under DA
Chesa Boudin.

When DA Jenkins took office, she fired the prosecutors in charge of that
case and has been ignoring Sean’s mother and, until this day, has not yet
convicted the officers.

Another man, named Keita O’Neil, was shot by a San Francisco officer,
Christopher Samayoa, through his vehicle window, even though O’Neil was
completely unarmed. Former DA Chesa Boudin charged that officer for the
killing.

But Jenkins has announced that she intends to dismiss the charges against
Christopher Samayoa for lack of evidence — even though that same evidence
was used to fire him from the police department, leading the judge to
issue an arrest warrant, and prompted a multi-million dollar lawsuit
between the city and Keita O'Neil's family.

We will be introducing a campaign in the coming days to demand that AG
Bonta take over the case so that Officer Samayoa is finally held
accountable.

This is exactly why we have our DA Defense Fund – to elect and defend
progressive civil rights minded DAs that will do the hard work to hold
police accountable and protect the people they serve.

[ [link removed]- ]Will you make a contribution today to help us defend our DAs in Texas,
St. Louis, and other cities and states across the country? The truth is,
if we don’t defend them, right-wing conservatives nationwide will be able
to replace our DAs with prosecutors just like Brooke Jenkins.

In solidarity,

Real Justice


 
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