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According to Peter Jamison at SF Weekly, the SF Board of Supervisors plan to serve up a controversial (and, ultimately, benign) resolution that would ask for charges to be dropped against the San Francisco Eight, "a group of allegedly violent former radicals who police say are responsible for the murder of San Francisco Police Sgt. John V. Young in 1971." While it's too soon to figure out exactly which supervisors and how many will stick their name on the thing, supes Eric Mar and Sophie Maxwell are apparently both sponsoring the legislation, with Mar taking the lead. Jamison goes on to report, "The move is sure to stoke anger among police officers, whose union, the San Francisco Police Officers Association, has actively sought prosecution in the case, which had seen little movement for decades before charges were brought against the men two years ago." Please standby for very, very angry declarations from SFPD officers.
Board of Supes to Consider Resolution Urging the Release of (Alleged) Cop Killers
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Alleged Cop Killers for Christ-Sakes!
Thanks Brock!
/blows kisses
Resolutions carry about the same weight as Tweets. Move along, nothing to see here.
Oh yay, another non-binding resolution from our BOS.
I was really hoping they might take up the Iraq war again. Cuz, ya know, I really don't know where they stand on that. And it would be really helpful if they would spend a couple weeks and untold resources debating it.
can't even catch a break when arrests have been made.
Um... why? The SF Weekly blog post didn't say why Mar and Maxwell are throwing up the reso. I'm feeling generous and saying it's not just typical, semi-retarded behavior on the BOS's part. Chris Daly hasn't signed on yet, so something is amiss, here.
This resolution makes no sense. If these people really did kill Sgt. Young then they should go to jail -- there can't be a "yeah but it was the 70's and killing cops was OK particularly if you were part of an oppressed group" excuse for not prosecuting them. And if they are innocent they should be released. Fortunately, we have a fairly well-defined method of determining which is the case -- and it is not by resolution of the BOS.
Do you really think the story behind this is that they think cop-killing was OK in the 70s?