A few days ago, posters began to appear on some walls in the streets of the Mission district denouncing by name and surname two sellers of the deadly drug fentanyl, which is responsible for the destruction of thousands of lives and deaths nationwide.
They also denounce the judges as those are responsible for releasing them after being arrested and accused of these crimes. The issue is causing serious debates between those who support his imprisonment and those who advocate their release.
The posters are receiving strong rejection from San Francisco legal professionals, who consider this public complaint as insensitive and lacking information, reported a local alternative media.
Another billboard warns drug traffickers: “We’ve had enough. “If you deal drugs and someone dies, you will go to prison for murder.”
One of the flyers names a defendant, Yomara Gómez, as having been arrested for trafficking fentanyl and released twice in 2020 and once in 2023. It also lists Superior Court Judges Richard Darwin and Patrick Thompson as judges who allegedly ordered her release.
Another flier lists a defendant named Nicol Palma arrested in 2021 and 2022, along with judges Michael Begert and Christine Van Aken who allegedly ordered her release. Both flyers highlight the amount of fentanyl with which the defendants were allegedly arrested and the possible deaths that the drugs could have caused, another local alternative media reported.
On the other hand, we see numbers of people entering stores and especially Walgreens, with long empty bags which they fill up with merchandise without fear of being caught, and calmly leave the store toward the 24th Street BART station and other locations to sell them, without the police interfering. And this happens, according to members of the police and the prosecutor’s office, because the judges’ agenda is not to imprison people, and also the California law that mandates that a person who steals less than $950 is not charged with a felony. These, they say, only receive a minor infraction and citations.
As far as shoplifting is concerned, this is fostering a culture that stealing is not punishable and encouraging many young people to leave their homes to ‘work’ illicitly, which is creating a culture of thieves. Today they rob Walgreens, tomorrow they will go for a bigger loot and end up being jailed for something bigger.
