Pamela Price is latest progressive California district attorney to face a recall push.
Price argued that the recall push was “consistent with the history of fighting against racial oppression in this country. Racism is real, and it does not evaporate just because we won the election.”
Price’s supporters say the longtime civil rights litigator has done precisely what she campaigned on. She has sharply curtailed the use of sentencing enhancements that add time for factors like gang membership, sought to avoid condemning people to life without parole, revived probes of police shootings and jail deaths, reviewed old convictions and expanded oversight of a troubled county jail.
Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, a progressive in her first term, has asked Gov. Gavin Newsom to deploy more California Highway Patrol officers to her city. The Oakland NAACP turned heads — and won Fox News coverage — with aJuly letter that deplored an “intolerable public safety crisis” and castigated Price.
“There’s too many citizens coming forward that are just fed up with all the crime,” said Oakland NAACP member Darren White, who has long worked with the city’s youth. “I’ve heard it from young people on the street that we can do A, B, or C because we’re not going to get charged.”