Police, DA Chesa Boudin battle over withdrawal of charges against attack suspect
By Evan Sernoffsky
San Francisco Chronicle
January 27, 2020
San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin’s decision to withdraw criminal charges last week against a man who was shot by police after allegedly attacking officers with a bottle has inflamed a simmering conflict between the city’s new progressive prosecutor and the law enforcement groups that opposed his election.
The city’s police union accused Boudin — a former public defender — of giving a “green light” to criminals to attack police, and on Monday called on the federal government to prosecute Jamaica Hampton, the 24-year-old man accused in the Dec. 7 attack in the Mission District. Hampton remains hospitalized and recently had his leg amputated after being shot three times, officials said.
The district attorney’s office, though, said there is nothing conclusive about its decision Friday to pull back the charges “without prejudice,”meaning they can be refiled anytime in the next three years. The office said it suspended the charges as part of a new policy aimed at avoiding conflicts between officer-involved shooting investigations and parallel criminal probes.
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San Francisco and San Jose Police Officers Association & LA Police Protective League seek federal charges against violent attacker of SF officersSan Francisco and San Jose Police Officers Association & LA Police Protective League seek federal charges against violent attacker of SF officers
LAPPL News Watch
January 28, 2020
The San Francisco Police Officer's Association is asking the U.S. attorney's office to prosecute a man who attacked officers last year. The request comes after San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, who formerly worked as a public defender, withdrew charges against Jamaica Hampton, 24, in the December assault.
“Mr. Boudin’s actions impact every police officer patrolling America’s neighborhoods, said LAPPL Director Jamie McBride. “It sends a message that so called reformer district attorneys will let attacks on police officers go unpunished.”
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SF COPS AND DA GO NOSE TO NOSE
by Bob Walsh
Chesa Boudin is the new District Attorney for San Francisco, and he is a hard-core liberal, most would say radical extremist. He just dropped charges against a man who was shot by the cops when he attacked the cops using a broken beer bottle as a weapon.
The police union is very unhappy. They assert that the D.A., a former public defender who has never been a prosecutor until elected to be the D.A., has essentially given a green light to criminals to attack cops. The bad guy, Jamaica Hampton, 24, is still in the hospital from the December 7 shooting and lost one leg to gunshot damage.
The D.A.'s spokeshole, Paula Lehman-Ewing, asserted, "No conclusion about the prosecutorial viability of Hampton's case should be drawn here." I guess that means they intend to routinely drop solid cases, just because they can.
The police union announced a new web site, BoudinBlunders.com, where tips can be submitted on screw-ups by the new D.A.
Hampton was originally charged by the acting D.A. with adw, assault on an officer and threats to an officer. Boudin dropped the charges after he was sworn in on January 8. There is in fact body cam footage of the incident.
The D.A. is asserting that he may reinstate the charges when in internal affairs investigation into the shooting is completed. Boudin has announced that a hallmark of his term in office will be investigations of excessive force against cops.
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