Posted on 11/25/2020 3:57:26 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
ALBANY — When Chesa Boudin was growing up, both his parents were serving long sentences in New York state prisons for their roles in a 1981 armored Brink’s truck robbery in Rockland County that left two Nyack police officers and a security guard dead.
Family friend Jeff Jones brought the youngster on prison visits to see his father.
Boudin was raised by adoptive parents and the boy left each prison encounter struggling to process feelings of sadness, anger and confusion over his powerlessness to change a criminal justice system that broke his family apart.
“I had a lot of emotional issues growing up because the nature of incarceration creates distance between family members,” conceded Boudin, 40, who was elected District Attorney of San Francisco a year ago after a career as a public defender and champion of alternatives to incarceration.
Now, Jones, 73, of Green Island, an environmental consultant, is joining forces with Boudin and international religious leaders including the daughter of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., to seek mercy from the governor. The coalition is urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to grant clemency to Boudin’s father, David Gilbert, because his age elevates the risk he faces from COVID-19.
Gilbert is 76 years old and has been incarcerated for 39 years. He is serving a 75-years-to-life sentence for felony murder and robbery. Gilbert is confined at Shawangunk Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in Ulster County, 80 miles south of Albany. He is one of the oldest and longest-serving inmates among the state’s roughly 38,000 inmates. Gilbert is not eligible for parole until 2056, when he would be 112 years old.
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Chesa Boudin, District Attorney of San Francisco, on a prison visit with his father, David Gilbert, 76, a member of the radical group the Weather Underground who has served 39 years for his role in an armored Brink’s truck robbery in Rockland County that killed three.
“Boudin was raised by adoptive parents and the boy left each prison encounter struggling to process feelings of sadness, anger and confusion over his powerlessness to change a criminal justice system that broke his family apart.”
It wasn’t robbery and murder that broke the family apart, it was the criminal justice system.
Continue to rot
His alternative to the criminal justice system tore apart the families of those he murdered.
Leave well enough alone.
That this guy is DA in a major city is pure insanity.
Now the radicals are in charge. No need to rob banks. They own banks.
Like father,like son.
This makes my damned blood boil every time I see this article. I saw it posted yesterday or the day before.
That rat bastard should have been put to death in the electric chair when he murdered those men.
In a just society, a newspaper that wrote an article like this would be scorned and ridiculed.
An other argument for the death penalty. We did have to endure decades of activists pleading for the Rosenbergs to be freed.
‘ a criminal justice system that broke his family apart’
I guess his dad and mom had no part in that? They participated in CRIMINAL ACTS. They alone are responsible for their punishment. But this is our future now. Get ready for the Big Cancel, where law abiding citizens are the ones in the wrong. Soros has nearly completed the destruction of our country, which he promised when Clinton was impeached. I suspect that info has been scrubbed from Google as it would hurt the Left.
Tells you a lot about the area where he was voted in.........
Exactly. They robbed and murdered. They should be dead in a just world. And blaming the system? That’s simply pathetic.
The two Nyack police officers and a security guard had no comment.
His adoptive parents being Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorn of the terrorist Weather Underground infamy.
The families of two Nyack police officers and a security guard were broken apart by these dirt bags. I have no sympathy for Chesa Boudin. He will be responsible for further deaths.
Boudin was raised by adoptive parents and the boy left each prison encounter struggling to process feelings of sadness, anger and confusion over his powerlessness to change a criminal justice system that broke his family apart.
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