Five years ago, two Alameda County sheriff’s deputies chased a car theft suspect across the Bay Bridge, from Castro Valley to an alley in San Francisco’s Mission District.https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/S-F-District-Attorney-Chesa-Boudin-dismissed-15720979.php …
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There, they tackled him and beat him with batons, giving him a concussion and breaking bones in his hands and arms.https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/S-F-District-Attorney-Chesa-Boudin-dismissed-15720979.php …
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The incident drew national outrage after former San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi released surveillance footage showing the two deputies knocking Stanislav Petrov to the ground, punching him and bludgeoning him, even after he appeared to surrender.https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/S-F-District-Attorney-Chesa-Boudin-dismissed-15720979.php …
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Yet in March, the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office quietly dismissed the criminal case against the deputies, The Chronicle has learned. Why?
@rachelswan reports:https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/S-F-District-Attorney-Chesa-Boudin-dismissed-15720979.php …3 replies 4 retweets 3 likesShow this thread
Perhaps @chesaboudin thought it was a lifestyle crime?
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