RFK Killer Sirhan Sirhan Denied Parole By California Governor Gavin Newsom
“He cannot be safely released from prison because he has not mitigated his risk of fomenting further political violence.”
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Back in August, a California parole board voted in favor of Sirhan Sirhan, the man who assassinated Robert F. Kennedy.
The left-wing Los Angeles prosecutor George Gascón didn’t oppose the decision.
California Governor Gavin Newsom doesn’t agree. In fact, he just blocked parole for Sirhan.
NBC News reports:
Robert F. Kennedy assassin Sirhan Bishara Sirhan denied parole by California governor
California Gov. Gavin Newsom denied parole Thursday for Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin, Sirhan Bishara Sirhan.
A two-person panel found Sirhan suitable for parole in August. The California Parole Board’s staff had 120 days to review the decision, and the governor had 30 more days to approve, deny or modify it.
Newsom explained his decision to overrule the parole board’s recommendation in an editorial published by the Los Angeles Times.
“After carefully reviewing the case, including records in the California State Archives, I have determined that Sirhan has not developed the accountability and insight required to support his safe release into the community,” Newsom wrote. “I must reverse Sirhan’s parole grant.”
He went on to say that even though Sirhan is 77 and decades have passed, he “remains a potent symbol of political violence.”
“He does not understand, let alone have the skills to manage, the complex risks of his self-created notoriety,” Newsom said. “He cannot be safely released from prison because he has not mitigated his risk of fomenting further political violence.”
A cynical person might think the only reason Newsom arrived at this decision is because Democrats are getting hammered in the polls on violent crime.
Writer Gary Weiss offered this observation:
Sirhan Sirhan is not a "Palestinian refugee." He lived in Jordanian-occupied Jerusalem, with Jordanian citizenship, until his family immigrated to the U.S. in the 1950s.
The only "refugee" is the California parole board, which was a refugee from reality by voting to spring him. https://t.co/DSuRqivrDD
— Gary Weiss (@gary_weiss) January 13, 2022
Newsom explained his decision in an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times:
Why I will not release Sirhan Sirhan on parole
In 1968, Sirhan Sirhan assassinated Sen. Robert F. Kennedy just moments after Kennedy won the California presidential primary. Sirhan also shot and injured five bystanders. Decades later, Sirhan refuses to accept responsibility for the crimes.
California’s Board of Parole Hearings recently found that Sirhan is suitable for parole. I disagree. After carefully reviewing the case, including records in the California State Archives, I have determined that Sirhan has not developed the accountability and insight required to support his safe release into the community. I must reverse Sirhan’s parole grant.
Kennedy’s assassination not only changed the course of this nation and robbed the world of a promising young leader, it also left his 11 children without a father and his wife without a husband. Kennedy’s family bears his loss every day. Millions of Americans lost a unifier in a time of national turmoil and grief, just nine weeks after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and four-and-a-half years after the murder of Kennedy’s brother, President John F. Kennedy.
Yet, after decades in prison, Sirhan still lacks the insight that would prevent him from making the kind of dangerous and destructive decisions he made in the past.
Whatever his reasons, Newsom made the right decision in the end.
Never thought I’d say that.
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My advice to Sirhan…. Start writing CRT and BLM workbooks. Then Newsom will then agree you have::
“ developed the accountability and insight required to support his safe release into the community.”
Better yet: have him contact Kamala Harris for help.
One decent thing this Gov has ever done
When I had just got up in prison
I asked my cellmate ‘what will I be?’
Will I be a snitch?
Will I be a bitch?
Here’s what he said to me
Hey Sirhan Sirhan
Whatever will be will be
You’re going to die in here
You shot Kennedy…. 😮
Stolen
If only it would have been a Republican he would have been sprung years ago and guest lecturer at universities everywhere.
Why the down vote? Skip is absolutely right.
“A cynical person might think the only reason Newsom arrived at this decision is because Democrats are getting hammered in the polls on violent crime.”
Well, that is how tough on crime policies generally happen.
Newsom lets 79,000 felons free. Except 1.
https://ktla.com/news/california/california-will-release-76k-inmates-early-including-violent-felons/
With my views on the Kennedys, I find myself wondering: did Sirhan do us harm, or a favor?
Maybe Newsome is worried about future “favors”
I thank Sirhan for his service and recommend that MA rename the Mass Pike as Sirhan Highway.
You and me, both. I was around back then, and thought of Bobby Kennedy is being nothing but a spoiled brat with a grudge.
One of the main consequences of the RFK assassination was the passage of the 1968 Gun Control Act, so that’s a major check mark on the “harm” side.
Also Teddy Kennedy’s political career can perhaps be blamed on RFK’s assassination.
Hard to judge the alternate history…
There have been many that believed this was the best of the K clan. I’m inclined to believe that his assassination led to the rise of teddy, and nothing could have been worse than that.
A prime example of doing the right thing for the wrong reasons. Newsom is acting purely politically. Attempting to buy votes by keeping a murderer in prison.
The only reason Gascon didn’t object is because Sirham is too high profile, and he murdered a DEMOCRAT nominee. I think they would’ve approved if he had only murdered a Republican nominee.
Yeah. That was my first thought; you messed up you killed a d/prog so no parole for you. It’s a twofer for Newsome, he can have a high profile ‘tough on crime’ moment and keep someone who killed a d/prog icon in prison for more punishment.