QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:

● Shot:

We remember the Jim Crow South, where sheriffs’ departments routinely colluded with prosecutors, judges, and defense attorneys to slow-walk investigations involving white officers harming blacks. They routinely “softly” prosecuted whites who injured blacks. All-white juries handed out perfunctory acquittals based on “reasonable doubt.” It was the good ‘ol boy network at its finest.

We are in danger of witnessing this trend (Jim Crow, West Coast style) right here in San Francisco. Local politicians are circling the wagons to take the focus off Kate Steinle’s tragic murder, and protect their sanctuary city policies—and one another. Only this isn’t about race. It isn’t about people of color turning the tables on the white power structure. It’s about people in power not wanting to own up to their responsibilities, and closing ranks to protect their own.

—Can Kate Steinle Get Justice in “Jim Crow” San Francisco?, Jeffrey Earl Warren, Ricochet, July 16, 2015.

● Chaser: Illegal alien who was acquitted in death of Kate Steinle is found incompetent to stand trial for gun charges. 

—Carlos Garcia, The Blaze, yesterday.