Voices: River City

[To view/listen to the full episode, become a patron today!] Today we discuss the commutation of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin's father, David GIlbert, who has been serving a sentence of 75 years to life in prison for his role in a 1981 robbery of a Brink's armored truck turned violent. Gilbert and his wife, both members of the Weather Underground, had been acting as getaway drivers for members of the Black Liberation Army. (Watch the award-winning 2002 documentary on it here). We also touch on last week's release by the Gravel Institute of a short documentary on the various gangs in the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department. Much of the work in this piece comes from the reporting of Cerise Castle, a Los Angeles-based journalist who began digging into the story after sheriff's deputies sent her to the hospital while she was reporting on 2020's George Floyd protests.