Alameda County District Attorney
Pamela Price He took office on January 2, 2023 on a platform of calling for shorter sentences for criminals, reducing incarceration and toughening police enforcement.
George Soros
Allegedly funded Price quickly began making good on the promises he made when he ran for prosecutor: Most crimes would receive probation or the lightest possible prison sentences unless there were “extraordinary circumstances” and Price’s approval, according to a leaked memo from March 2023. report Berkeley Scanner.
Concerned citizens faced with the fallout from Price’s apparent superiority complex over criminals have launched a recall movement, spearheaded by Save Alameda for All.
Securing sufficient valid signatures That means Price faces the possibility of being fired in November.
Price’s political vulnerability has apparently not prompted greater caution or consideration on her part.
This week, she planned to repair her rocky relationship with the Asian community, and when that failed, she released a defensive video reassuring the Asian community that her office once stood near Chinatown.
dig a hole
Relations with Price were especially strained last year when she decided to drop a sentencing enhancement for a violent offender charged in connection with the 2021 murder of 1-year-old Jasper Wu in Oakland.
Two gang members were initially charged with the boy’s murder and other felonies in connection with the highway “shootout.”
report According to Berkeley Scanner, the thugs chased the rival gang members onto the highway, where Trevor Greene allegedly fired wildly into traffic, hitting Wu, who was asleep in his car seat a few lanes away.
Wu’s parents, Xiao Xiao Ann and Ann Wu, wanted the harshest possible sentences for Green, Ivory Bivens and the third man involved in their son’s murder. Price’s predecessor, former District Attorney Nancy O’Malley, had applied criminal aggravations to ensure suspects faced life in prison without parole, but Price
Intervened And if convicted, the pair could be roaming the streets for up to 30 years.
The Wu case tarnished Price’s reputation in the Asian community and led to the resignation of veteran prosecutor Rebecca Warren, who is a member of the Asian American and Pacific Islander community.
Accused The Democratic district attorney mistreated and disrespected the “Asian American and Asian American communities.”
The other prosecutor, Daniel Hilton, resigned shortly thereafter, saying “the victims deserved better.”
report New York Post.
Digging deeper
By Dion Lim, KGO-TV reporter
Shown Price announced Monday that he plans to announce his Chinese name this week at a press conference at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center in celebration of what is now called Asian American Heritage Month.
“Someone messaged me and asked if this was an April Fool’s joke.”
Tweeted Lim said: “I then sent this person the press release that I received from the prosecutor’s office!”
“I think it’s ridiculous. It’s cultural appropriation and pandering at the highest level,” Charles Huang, president of the local National Asian Pacific Islander Prosecutors Association, told KGO.
The prosecutors faced relentless ridicule online.
Got information KGO announced Tuesday that the press conference had been canceled.
However, Price is defensively
Video to Social Mediawhich is not available for public comment, claims that she has good relations with the Asian community, that she once had an office next to Chinatown, that she has a Chinese name, although she doesn’t explicitly say so, and that the thugs charged with Wu’s murder could face hundreds of years in prison if convicted.
It is unclear from Price’s remarks whether she ultimately adopted the same Chinese name she gave in a full-page ad in the American Chinese-language newspaper World Journal, which was reported by the Daily Mail.
Shown It translates as “Lovely virgin bureaucrat.”
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