Elderly Victim Beaten with Bat Sues San Francisco DA for Letting Attackers Off Without Jail

Ahn Le, 69, said he politely asked the teenager who was riding a bicycle to be careful. The teenager took out a baseball bat from his mother’s bag and hit Le multiple times. His father, identified as Jimmy Tanner Sr., then raised a glass bottle and threatened to kill Le. The Vietnamese-American elder is suing far-left San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin for reducing multiple felony charges, including terrorist attacks and elder abuse, against Tanner and his teenage son down to a single count of misdemeanor assault, no jail time. Le has simply asked the court to make Boudin do his job and to hold him accountable for failing to comply with Marsy’s Law, which is intended to give victims a voice regarding their attackers’ release.

An elderly Asian American man who fell victim to a brutal attack in broad daylight in San Francisco two years ago is launching a federal lawsuit against the city’s District Attorney’s Office for allegedly mishandling his case and mistreating him in the process.

Anh Lê, 69, was out for a walk in Chinatown on Nov. 2, 2019, when a father-and-son duo threatened to kill him and repeatedly struck him with a baseball bat. He managed to call 911 after running away as far as he could.

Lê said it all started after he politely asked the teenage son, who was riding a bicycle, to be careful since it was a crowded sidewalk and he nearly collided with him.

Shortly after, the teenager took out a baseball bat from his mother’s bag and hit Lê multiple times. His father, identified as Jimmy Tanner Sr., then raised a glass bottle and threatened to kill Lê.

The incident, which was witnessed by a shocked crowd, occurred in front of a Chinese grocery store at 1118 Stockton St. Lê said Tanner’s wife, who was with another teenage son, “seemed to watch with glee” as the attack unfolded.

“I pleaded with the Tanners to stop, but they relished in their ability to inflict pain and

fear on a defenseless senior citizen,” Lê said in a victim impact statement provided to NextShark. “The attack was the most brutal, terrifying, and humiliating experience of my life, and has stayed with me ever since.”

After the incident, Lê, who is Vietnamese American, learned that the Tanners had targeted other Asian Americans on the same day. The alleged attacks also took place in Chinatown.

The Tanners reportedly entered S&M Ginseng Inc. and Chinese Herbal Store at 1000 Stockton St., just a few blocks from where Lê was attacked, and threatened its store owner and customers. The teen who struck Lê with the baseball bat allegedly used the same object to hit a customer.

Lê said he also learned of a third “terroristic” attack committed by the family near Broadway and Stockton Street. The alleged incident occurred after the attack on himself.

Lê quickly reported his experience to San Francisco police, which led to the Tanners’ arrest later on the same day. The father, Tanner Sr., was taken into custody for battery, felony elder abuse and felony terroristic threats.

The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, however, refused to prosecute either the father or son with hate crime enhancements and agreed to a lenient plea deal with Tanner Sr., who pled guilty to a misdemeanor battery charge for no jail time and only a year of probation — all without Lê’s knowledge.

In addition to failing to notify Lê of plea deal discussions, the District Attorney’s Office allegedly also failed to provide him a chance to enter a victim impact statement during the proceedings. Consequently, no such statement was read at the plea deal hearing.

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Police Tribune:    https://policetribune.com/elderly-victim-beaten-with-bat-sues-san-francisco-da-for-letting-attackers-off-without-jail/




San Francisco: Soros-Backed DA Gets Tough on Crime after His Terrorist Father Is Released from Prison

San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin has decided to get tough on crime and drop his commitment to “social justice” just weeks after securing the release of his father, David Gilbert, a member of the Weather Underground domestic terrorist group, that killed two police officers. His mother, Kathy Boudin, was also involved in the ambush robbery, and was released from prison in 2003; she went on to become a professor at leftist Columbia University and went on to co-found the Center for Justice at Columbia University. DA Chesa Boudin has been harshly criticized for failing to prosecute criminals, including thieves, which has resulted business closures. Boudin is now trying to redeem his reputation by charging suspects in recent organized looting events as he is now facing a recall election.

David Gilbert and Kathy Boudin, were both members of the Weather Underground domestic terrorist group and were jailed in the 80s for taking part in the murder of police officers Edward O’Grady and Waverly Brown during a bank heist.

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Radical San Francisco District Attorney Will Allow Criminals to Get ‘Off the Hook’ and Go into ‘Diversion’ Instead of Prison If They Have a Child in the House

California passed a law, SB 394, that is optional in each county, and allows diversion for lawbreakers, instead of jail, for primary caregivers of minor children under certain circumstances. Defendants who are the parent or legal guardian of a minor child and who live in the same home and provide care and financial support for the child qualify for the program. San Francisco’s newly elected District Attorney, Chesa Boudin, whose parents were sent to prison for driving a getaway car in a terrorist-linked robbery when he was a child, is implementing the new law. According to prosecutors, the only “diversion” that’s going to happen now is that new crimes will get diverted onto more people.

Fresh from firing experienced prosecutors for…prosecuting crimes, Hugo Chávez’s fair-haired boy in San Francisco, newly elected district attorney Chesa Boudin, is going himself one better and launching a new program to allow criminals charged with felonies and misdemeanors off the hook if they go into “diversion” programs.  His condition?  Having a kid in the household.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle:

“I grew up visiting my parents behind bars,” Boudin said in a statement announcing the policy. “I know the kind of trauma the sudden loss of a parent can have on a child and the kind of resources that are needed to make that child whole again. This is about taking responsibility, protecting the sanctity of the family, and ensuring innocent children are not condemned to repeat the mistakes of their parents.”

Commit a crime with a kid in the room, get off scot-free.  Commit the same crime without a kid, and off to the can you go.  Amazing, that newfound respect for “sanctity of the family,” as if the communist left believed in anything sacred beyond the party.  Chesa’s parents were sent to the can for driving a getaway car in a terrorist-linked robbery that resulted in the murder of black police officer Waverley Brown, another officer, and a security guard.  Based on young Chesa’s statement, these killers should have been sent to a diversion program instead of the big house because separating them from their kids after what they did would have been hard on the kids, and never mind how hard their crimes were on the dead cop’s kids.  Weather Underground terrorist ringleaders Bill “guilty as sin, free as a bird” Ayers and his sidekick, Bernardine Dohrn, ended up raising young Chesa in a wealthy radical Chicago enclave with his parents’ “values,” but apparently, it wasn’t enough.

Now everyone gets off.  Drug-dealers, porno-purveyors, perverts, and wife-beaters are going to have a field day, but only so long as they have a kid nearby when they do it.  It can’t be a kid who lives someplace else, according to the derivative law passed by the far-left fanatics in Sacramento, which makes this sort of thing an “option.”

Want to sell meth?  Get your baby mamma and the kid in the room, since you’re all now “a family,” or rather, a “working family,” and the worst that can happen so long as Junior is around is “diversion.”  You can bet there are going to be a lot of kids exposed to crime now that crooks will recognize their useful human shield purpose, and they will now be handy additions from the baby mamma somewhere to the household.

And are these people going to verify that the kids are theirs?  Will “stepchildren” do?  Or maybe, as the illegals have learned, a little human-trafficking, with kids passed around from lawbreaker to lawbreaker to get around the law, will serve the same purpose.  Message: If you’re a crook, get yourself a kid in the vicinity.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the D.A.s on the inside are “terrified.”

The California District Attorney’s Association opposed the law, and sent a letter to Skinner last year highlighting its potential consequences.

A misdemeanor charge of contacting a minor with the intent to commit a sexual offense, for example, requires an offender to register as a sex offender and future violations carry state prison terms. “Under SB 394, however, there may be no conviction and thus no registration requirement,” Larry Morse, the association’s Director of Legislation, wrote in the letter.

The new policy was also met with concern from some in the district attorney’s office. A source high up in office, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, is “terrified for current and future victims, particularly women and children in abusive homes.”

According to prosecutors, the only “diversion” that’s going to happen now is that new crimes will get diverted onto more people.

It should worry them because even crooks respond to incentives.  This loophole from consequences for crime is roughly equivalent to feds’ incentive for illegal aliens to use kids as human shields in order to avoid detention and get free pass into the country.  Family separation, see.  It’s what triggered the border surges and caravans of the last few years — remember all those expensive strollers.  For the left, “family values” has its political uses.

The substitution of “diversion programs” is pretty gamy, too.

The Chronicle reports:

The policy will suspend criminal proceeding for 6 to 24 months while a defendant goes through the program that may include parenting classes, anger management, job training, drug and alcohol treatment, and counseling.

The Chronicle reports that the law has supposed safeguards to say anyone accused of abusing the child in the household “won’t qualify” for the diversion. But the presence of “parenting classes” and “anger management” in that menu suggests something different.  Even the exclusion of child abusers is skeezy, given that it will take a Chesa-approved DA to make that accusation, and no accusation, no problem, diversion there, too. Maybe they get one free kids to abuse and the rest of the kids are permitted to have the parent with parenting lessons in the household. You can bet some child abusers are going to slip through on that one and some kid will end up dead from wife-beater daddy or drug dealer mommy and the news will be full of lamentation, or the whole thing will get ignored as politically inconvenient.

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