Thread on @chesaboudin and the McAlister case. I am appalled by the local media coverage. The racial overtones, the salivating, the sensationalism. The thirst for 3 strikes. It is like revisiting Willie Horton, except its 2021.
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It is NOT an excuse to demonize a progressive DA, pearl-clutch about a crime wave that does not exist, or use this tragedy to perpetuate a carceralist agenda.
@sfchronicle@SFGate KPIX, KGO, your coverage is embarrassingly bad.Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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From the details in the press I don’t see what tools the criminal legal system had that would have worked here. Certainly not more incarceration
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