San Francisco DA Touts Progressive Ambitions for Already Troubled City

Chesa Boudin raised in Chicago by Weather Underground leaders Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn while his parents were in prison

Chesa Boudin spent his childhood influenced by members of a radical left and violent domestic terrorist organization. During college, he worked as an English translator for Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez.

Today, Boudin is the top prosecutor in one of America’s largest cities, gaining laudatory endorsements from a U.S. Supreme Court justice and a U.S. senator, vowing to revolutionize the office to stop what he considers “mass incarceration,” and prosecuting federal immigration agents.

Within days of being sworn in Jan. 8 as San Francisco’s district attorney, Boudin cleaned house–targeting those in the criminal division in charge of the homicide unit, the general felonies unit, and gang units.

Boudin, 39, the son of two Weather Underground radicals who were convicted of murder, replaced those officials with former colleagues from the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office.

In a campaign that he won by fewer than 3,000 votes, Boudin was clear that his top priorities were decreasing incarceration, eliminating cash bail, and refusing to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
 
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[Backed by a grant of $50 million from billionaire George Soros, the American Civil Liberties Union announced in April 2017 a campaign to target, remove, and replace pro-law enforcement, anti-illegal immigration district attorneys around the country. This is one of their successful attempts. --Editor]