Bay Bridge Anti-Israel Protesters’ Supporters Demonstrate Against San Francisco DA’s Decision to Charge Them
District Attorney Brooke Jenkins seems unmoved by the tactic.
Just before Thanksgiving, Professor Jacobson reported that approximately 80 anti-Israel protesters were arrested and cars towed away after they blocked all westbound lanes of the Bay Bridge.
Subsequently, I reported that San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said her office would charge all of the arrested protestors after halting traffic during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference in November.
Now demonstrators are protesting the DA’s decision.
Supporters of the 80 people arrested for blocking the Bay Bridge last month packed San Francisco’s Hall of Justice on Monday for the protesters’ first court appearance, railing against District Attorney Brooke Jenkins for pursuing a series of misdemeanor charges and renewing calls for a cease-fire in Gaza.
More than 150 people gathered for an initial rally on the rain-soaked steps of the courthouse before heading inside for the hearing, crowding into the hallway outside of a second-floor courtroom while chanting, “Let us in!”
The protesters were clearly pro-Hamas. Fortunately, Jenkins seemed unmoved by the drama.
Many people wore keffiyehs and held up Palestinian flags. A large banner read “Biden: Ceasefire now!” behind them as they stood on the steps.
Those who gathered are calling for San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins to drop the charges against the protestors and for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war.
So far, the district attorney has charged 17 of them with false imprisonment, unlawful public assembly, and refusing to disperse.
“While we must protect avenues for free speech, the exercise of free speech cannot compromise public safety. The demonstration on the Bay Bridge that snarled traffic for hours had a tremendous impact on those who were stuck on the bridge for hours and required tremendous public resources to resolve,” Jenkins said in a statement.
The excuses being made on behalf of those charged, who delayed the transport of multiple organs to patients in critical need because of their antics, are truly astonishing.
An attorney representing the self-proclaimed “Bay Bridge 78” says she wants to be on the right side of moral history, by supporting, rather than condemning the acts of civil disobedience and calling for a cease-fire in Gaza.
“An act of civil disobedience that creates a disruption that forces people to pay attention and to really examine what their conscience tells them about the us complicity in the murder of individuals in Gaza, is no different than those actions and should not be treated with this criminality,” EmilyRose Johns, an attorney with the National Lawyers Guild said.
A member of the Palestinian Youth Movement says several of those charged are from his organization.
He says to prosecute all 80 people is a waste of time and taxpayer money.
“These five charges of 80 people is going to be a multimillion dollar expense for the city of San Francisco, while there are people on the streets, people are hungry, people are unhoused,” Rami Abdel Karim, a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement said. “And in order to save tax payer dollars in the city of San Francisco, when we’re undergoing a budget crisis, to drop all of the charges.”
We wish the San Francisco DA good success in her pursuit of the charges.
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Recidivism among deceased terrorists is ZERO…
Just saying… 🙂
Interesting development. Does this decision to charge protesters who obstructed traffic indicate a change in policy in the DA’s office?
Probably messed with the commute of someone “Important”
I believe they were only charged with misdemeanors..
It would be interesting people had bolt cutters and opened holes in the fence and then started playing Heave Ho with protesters. Drivers should start carrying masks, an extras for other drivers.
I really appreciated the response of a few score drivers on the 110 freeway in Los Angeles maybe a week or ten days back. They actually got out of their cars and began to physically attack the knuckleheads who in a coordinated move, blocked all lanes on that busy freeway. CHP showed up and arrested about 150 of the troublemakers. Of course, LA’s DA has an agenda, which means very unlikely any of the perps will suffer any consequences. BUT the other LA freeway drivers made a solid point. I’ll wager going forward such traffic blocking antics will touch off more very short fuses . My bet is jungle justice will be meted out in larger doses net time. Too bad the drivers on the Bay Bridge were not so proactive. Maye the So Cal “respondents” to the traffic blockers had read about the Bay Bridge fiasco and simply decided “NUFF and rolled up their sleeves and waded in.
WOn’t be long even in California, before these incidents will bring out the bangsticks…… civil war anyone?
Sex is a misdemeanor…
The more I miss, the meaner i gets…:)
Maybe but the False Imprisonment charge alone is up to 1yr in jail and $1,000. That one can’t be a Felony because no violence was involved. If the DA and the Judge go for max it will hurt but I wouldn’t look for that to happen.
the threat if violence brings those consequences along, just as if faces had been bloodied.
At least those patients affected by the delay in transplant organs now know who to sue for damages for any adverse effects related to the delays.
If all the motorists who were “inconvenienced” were to go after them as well, that’s just a bonus. Bankrupt the nazi organizations who fund the mobs.
The previous Soros DA was recalled and replaced with someone who respects law and order.
They should show the importance of their protest by shutting down the GG Bridge.
“Hit that man over the head with your skateboard, then take his rifle” -Darwin
Would you believe I actually had to look that up?
My mind immediately went to Galloping Gertie.
When Donald Trump complains about the charges filed against him, the judge issues a gag order.
Think the judge in this case will slap a “no protest” order on these defendants?
To ask the question is to answer it…
These people are not parties to the case, so they can’t be gagged.
“cease-fire in Gaza.”
As soon as they are all dispatched.. Is there any reason that this war should not be taken to other belligerents with similar mindsets.
Oh please, Mr. Karim, no one in San Francisco worries about saving tax payer dollars!
Or…we could fine the arrested individuals the sum total of the estimated disruption plus prosecution, which would both discourage future disruptions of city services and be revenue neutral. After all, they admitted the disruption was the reason they did what they did, so we can go straight to a default judgement. Right?
The most efficient way to save money would be to eliminate the trial and go straight to the sentencing. And fine their pants off.
The dual nature of the justice system in America demonstrated. The idea that they would be arrested for a damaging civil disturbance is so shocking to the left it requires another civil disturbance.
SF votes 90% dem. This is all street theater. It happens once or twice year. The more things change the more they stay the same.
“An act of civil disobedience that creates a disruption that forces people to pay attention and to really examine what their conscience tells them about the us complicity in the murder of individuals in Gaza, is no different than those actions and should not be treated with this criminality,” EmilyRose Johns, an attorney with the National Lawyers Guild said.
Apparently said attorney has no clue what civil disobedience means. As practiced by Mohandas Gandhi, probably the first to advocate civil disobedience understood, the protester has to accept the legal ramifications of their actions to make the protest valid.
The attorney has a clue and isn’t saying what you and I think she’s saying.
The National Lawyers Guild is a communist front. Really. For them, the issue is not the issue, the issue is the revolution. She is arguing that the legal system and these charges are impeding the revolution. That’s why she wants the charges dropped, and all the rest of her language is designed to obfuscate the issue sufficiently to cause your eyes to glaze over, so that you’ll give up and giver her what she wants.
Lock them up for disturbing the peace, then add that on top of the charges from the bridge.
These are different people.
So the attorney representing the co called Bay Bridge 78 says she wants to be on the right side of moral history? Well then she should probably reconsider supporting the side she’s on. Aligning with murderers, rapists, torturers, kidnappers, war criminals, and terrorists is not the way to get on the right side of moral history!!!
Its SF. Nobody there cares. They elected fat black mayor breed, her brother is doing time in prison for murder, she says that he has her full support.
The arrogance of EmilyRose Johns is unbelievable. I don’t need that dumb broad to “force” me to pay attention to her lunacy. I’d just as soon someone toss her ass off the bridge.
“Those who gathered are calling for San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins to drop the charges against the protestors”
Spoiled, entitled brats.
Double them.
The entire point of civil disobedience was to accept the punishment for a morally wrong law. Just ask MLK Jr in Birmingham Jail. If it’s really a morally righteous cause (and Hamas surely isn’t), the jail time is worth it, right?
I just have to laugh, it’s pretty funny. These morons actually think that Netanyahu and the IDF give a rat’s ass about a bunch of leftist idiots on the other side of the world closing down a bridge or a highway.
With every stunt they pull, they just earn more hatred and contempt from the very people they should be trying to bring into their so-called cause.
Only Nazis could support the evil monsters who butchered 1,400 Israeli civilians and then hid behind their women and children.
Morons.
Conscript them. Send them to break rocks in Nevada or somewhere.
Cool Hand Luke comes to mind….. that road crew camp would be just the perfect thing to teach these lazy overweight rabblerousers a bit about justice.