10-30-2022, 12:49 PM
(10-30-2022, 12:39 PM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: You know what? You're right. It isn't how he looks, it's 100% what he's saying, how he's saying it and the look on his face as he's saying it.
You're putting me in the annoying place of having to defend Jessie Waters here, but I get what he's saying. Although less true in SF now than under Boudin, the DA's in places like SF and LA County are notoriously soft on crime. Get arrested for hitting someone in the head with a hammer, you'll get charged, most of the time, with 245(a)(1) PC: Assault with a deadly weapon. Sounds about right, no? Wait for it... but it's likely to be charged as a misdemeanor as the crime is what's known as a "wobbler". The vats majority of the time it's charged as a felony. Under the previous DA here, Jackie Lacey, I only saw it charged as a misdemeanor once, and I actually got why. Under the current POS it's filed as a misdemeanor around 50-60% of the time, if not more. Except, guess what? Anytime the incident made the news, even if it was less severe than other, similar, incidents, it's always, always charged as a felony.
What Watters is saying, albeit in a snide manner, is that he wants this attacker to receive the same degree of leniency typically showed by these soft on crime DA's. Essentially, don't be extra harsh on this guy because his victim is high profile and the incident made national news. Treat this guy like the thousands of other such attackers that didn't make the news. I completely agree with your take on his tone and facial expressions, but his point is absolutely a valid one
