As district attorney, Kamala Harris looked out for San Francisco’s criminals
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Kamala Harris and her allies are highlighting her prior experience as San Francisco’s district attorney. She ran away from it during the 2020 primary as anti-police fervor swept the Democratic Party, but now it’s a selling point. They use it in ads to call her “tough.”
This couldn’t be further from the truth.
The case of Steven Petrilli is instructive to see what type of District Attorney’s Office Kamala Harris ran.
Vice President Kamala Harris takes the stage at the 20th Quadrennial Convention of the Women’s Missionary Society of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church on Aug, 1, 2023, in Orlando, Florida. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Petrilli is currently serving life in prison for killing San Francisco police officer Nick Tomasito-Birco in 2006.