redstate.com
By Jerry Wilson
A protest held Monday, April 10 in front of the Alameda County Courthouse in Oakland, California, demanded that Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price decide the charges against three individuals in the shooting death of Jasper Wu. Wu was 23 months old when the car he was riding in with his parents was caught between two gangs exchanging gunfire in November 2021.
Although nowhere near the notoriety level of former San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin or current Los Angeles DA George Gascón, Price is cut from the same progressive cloth. In early March 2023, Price circulated proposed guidelines that would eliminate enhancements to criminal charges, meaning that in a criminal charge, the DA office would not add additional elements such as gang membership or whether the accused used a gun during the act to the original complaint.
The enhancements question comes into play in the Wu case as Price’s predecessor included gun charges and gang conspiracy enhancements that Price’s proposed guidelines would remove. Wu’s parents have met with Price, and are unconvinced that Price will properly prosecute the case:
When ABC7 News anchor Dion Lim sat down with An Wu and her husband one month ago, they expressed concerns over Price’s new guidelines, outlined in an internal district attorney’s office email not allowing prosecutors to “file or require defendants’ plea to sentencing enhancements.”
