Thread: As Gang Crimes Soar, New San Franciso D.A. Surrenders to MS-13

As Gang Crimes Soar, New San Francisco D.A. Surrenders To MS-13



December 25, 2019 by Dave Gibson

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (The San Francisco Chronicle) – Two members of the violent MS-13 street gang were convicted of executing a father as he celebrated his birthday in San Francisco’s Mission District nearly three years ago, prosecutors said Friday.


The San Francisco Superior Court jury deliberated for three days before returning guilty verdicts Thursday against Jose Mejia-Carrillo, 24, and Alexis Cruz-Zepeda, 25, in the March 17, 2017, killing of George Martinez.


Mejia-Carrillo was found guilty of first-degree murder and being a felon in possession of a firearm, along with gun and gang enhancements. Cruz-Zepeda was found guilty of one count of criminal street gang conspiracy for acting as the lookout and distracting Martinez while Mejia-Carrillo fired the deadly shots.


The verdict “brings long-awaited justice to the victim and his family and represents a line in the sand that brazen gang violence of this nature will not be tolerated in this community,” Assistant District Attorney Adam Maldonado said.


The case centered around the defendants’ participation in the 20th Street clique of the brutal Mara Salvatrucha gang, known as MS-13. Maldonado described how the killing was part of a larger effort by the gang to become more powerful by using violence to spread fear in the neighborhood.


The night of the murder, Martinez, 44, was with his adult son at the Beauty Bar on 19th and Mission streets. The men had been at a Warriors game in Oakland and decided to stop by the bar on the way back to their San Bruno home.


Little did they know, prosecutors said, MS-13 members were in the bar and mistook Martinez as a rival gang member. Mejia-Carrillo and Cruz-Zepeda followed Martinez out of the bar as he and another man got into a car on 19th Street.


Mejia-Carrillo was captured on security video crouching next to a car behind the vehicle while Cruz-Zepeda walked by smoking a cigarette.


Martinez got out of the car and briefly spoke to Cruz-Zepeda as Mejia-Carrillo sneaked up from behind and shot him in the back before putting a second bullet in his head. The execution was captured by a nearby market’s security camera.


Prosecutors said Mejia-Carrillo fled the scene on foot, dropping his cell phone and ditching the murder weapon in a trash bin in a dark corner of a nearby parking lot. When investigators searched the phone, they found selfie videos of Mejia-Carrillo flashing MS-13 gang signs while riding BART a week before the shooting.


A witness described hearing someone ask Martinez if he was a Norteño, a gang rival of MS-13, seconds before the shooting.


Investigators later found Mejia-Carrillo’s DNA on the murder weapon, prosecutors said.


Since being arrested, Cruz-Zepeda has gotten several tattoos while in San Francisco Jail, including “MS-13” on his hand and devil horns — a common symbol of the gang — on his arm.


The trial may be the last case with gang enhancements charged by the district attorney’s office for the foreseeable future. The incoming district attorney, Chesa Boudin, has pledged to stop charging gang enhancements when he takes office Jan. 8, citing stark racial disparities in how the law is applied.


Gang enhancements, which add additional years to a sentence for an underlying felony, make communities less safe by creating tension between law enforcement and minority neighborhoods, Boudin said during his campaign for district attorney.


*Of course, San Francisco has long been a ‘sanctuary city,’ and as such, gave way to the murders of the Bologna family in 2008, by an MS-13 gang member; and Kate Steinle in 2015, by illegal alien, Jose Ines Garcia-Zarate.


Apparently, this once, beautiful city which has given way to gang violence, feces-filled sidewalks and even the open (now decriminalized) use of heroin in the streets, has decided to continue this downward spiral by also decriminalizing hyper-violent street gangs.


It is also worthy of note that San Francisco’s incoming district attorney, Chesa Boudin, once served in the administration of the now deceased Venezuelan dictator, Hugo Chavez.


Boudin’s parents, Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert were members of the Weather Underground terrorist group, and both were convicted for their roles in the murders of two police officers and a security guard in 1981 in Rockland County, New York. After his parents went to prison, Boudin was raised in Chicago by Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.



https://www.illegalaliencrimereport.com/as-gang-crimes-soar-new-san-francisco-d-a-surrenders-to-ms-13/

Michelle Malkin had his number in 2019.

Malkin: Radical Chesa Boudin: Nation’s most toxic DA candidate

Staff Writer
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
Oct 30 2019

Socialist Bernie Sanders just endorsed the bleeding-heart candidate for San Francisco District Attorney who makes President Obama's Attorney General, Eric Holder, look like Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

Meet Chesa Boudin. He's the Bay Area public defender and former shill/translator for the late Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez who plans to turn San Francisco into an even bigger sanctuary for the homeless, drug abusers, illegal immigrants, gangsters, vandals, thieves, recidivist criminals and cop-haters than it is already. Boudin leads a spooky field of left-lefter-leftists running for DA on the Nov. 5 ballot.

The cornerstone of Boudin's campaign is sabotaging immigration enforcement. He has called for prosecution and imprisonment of ICE and police officers for doing their jobs and vowed to create an "immigrant defense unit" within the DA's office to "stand up to Trump on immigration."

While American veterans beg for money on San Francisco's street corners, Boudin will instead subsidize "universal legal representation" for illegal immigrants facing deportation.

While American angel families are denied standing in American courts to sue the sanctuary outlaws whose policies enabled criminals in this country illegally to injure, rape or murder their loved ones, Boudin will "help every single immigrant victim of every crime obtain a U-Visa."

Boudin's campaign tagline claims he wants to build a criminal justice system "for everyone, not just the wealthy and well-connected." The chutzpah. It burns.

Well-connected? Boudin has been endorsed by a who's who of far-left celebrities, from Sanders to Hamas-linked "Women's March" co-founder Linda Sarsour to Black Lives Matter hate crime hoax propagandist Shaun King to radical Chicago DA and Jussie Smollett fixer Kim Foxx to Black Panther Party commie revolutionary Angela Davis.

Wealthy? Boudin is the top fundraiser in the San Francisco DA's race, raking in more than $623,000 in donations this year -- a significant chunk from out-of-state academics, entertainment industry executives, and East Coast lawyers in New York and D.C. I discovered from Boudin's most recent campaign finance disclosures that one of his top donors is Chloe Cockburn. She is a prominent partner of globalist billionaire George Soros' Democracy Alliance. Cockburn moderated a crucial 2017 summit with Soros and other deep-pocketed liberal philanthropists to strategize on taking over local and state offices to reclaim "our progressive future." Other bigwig Boudin donors hail from the Soros-allied Tides Foundation and Soros-funded Brennan Center for Justice.

What makes Boudin especially toxic is his family tree. Boudin is the militant offspring of spoiled-rich radicals Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, members of the violent Weather Underground terrorist group, which bombed government buildings and corporate headquarters, aided convicted felons in jailbreaks and participated in a 1981 Brink's armored car holdup in Nyack, New York, with the Black Liberation Army. That crime took the lives of three innocent Americans -- police officers Edward O'Grady and Waverly Brown and private security guard Peter Paige.

Kathy Boudin was an 11-year fugitive from justice after an accidental homemade bomb explosion at her New York City townhouse resulted in three other deaths. At the time of her arrest in Nyack, Boudin gave police one of many false identities she had used to evade the law. She was paroled in 2003 after convincing parole board members that she acted nobly out of "white guilt" to protest racism against blacks. (Reality check: Officer Waverly Brown was a black, working-class military veteran.) Gilbert remains in prison. Their story was glorified and romanticized by Robert Redford in the 2013 movie, "The Company You Keep."

After Kathy Boudin dropped off toddler Chesa at a babysitter's house so she could help perpetrate the bloody $1.6 million Brink's heist, this privileged elitist was adopted by another pair of America-hating domestic agitators, unrepentant Weathermen colleagues Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. Ayers celebrated bombing the Pentagon in his radical memoir, "Fugitive Days," taught at the University of Illinois in Chicago, and mentored Barack Obama. Dohrn declared war on "AmeriKKKa," helped stage the "Days of Rage" in Chicago, when Weathermen blew up a memorial statue to police officers and rioted violently, leaving 75 policemen wounded and one permanently injured in a wheelchair, and then spent years as a fugitive from justice before settling into a comfy post as former director of the Legal Clinic's Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern University.

Steeped in Marxist ideology and self-pity, Boudin moaned to The New York Times that he was "sad that my parents have to suffer what they have to suffer on a daily basis" because they were "dedicated to fighting U.S. imperialism around the world." No compassion for the families of the officers his parents helped murder, but the Yale grad and Rhodes Scholar did earn praise for his crusades against "urban misery in Bolivia, homelessness in Santiago and illiteracy in Guatemala."

Now Boudin wants to avenge his cop-killing parents by imposing "restorative justice" and "decarceration" policies that will incentivize violent crime and endanger lives in San Francisco and beyond.

https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/...te/2409490007/

See also:
San Francisco Voters Recall Radical D.A. Chesa Boudin: Warning to Left-wing Prosecutors Nationwide
https://www.alipac.us/f19/san-francisco-voters-recall-radical-d-chesa-boudin-warning-left-wing-prosecuto-396417/#post1709203