Six months after being elected, a recall effort is moving forward against Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price as an organization filed the paperwork on Tuesday.
Save Alameda for Everyone pushed back against the progressive district attorney, submitting 127 signatures to file a notice of intent to recall the San Francisco Bay-area county prosecutor. Price has a set number of days to respond to the notice, and after that, the group can begin to round up the 90,000 legal signatures needed to put the issue on a ballot.
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Facing the real prospect of a recall, Alameda County DA Pamela Price copies a tactic of ousted San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin – by labelling backers of her recall effort as “Insurrectionists”. Boudin’s 2022 mailers to SF voters featured a photo of invaders at the US capitol. pic.twitter.com/WTu0Y17HNk
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SAFE is composed of community leaders, activists, and the families of Alameda County homicide victims, who are spearheading the recall movement against Price, accusing the county’s top prosecutor of giving out too lenient of plea deals in criminal cases.
The Oakland NAACP called for a statement of emergency in a July letter, blaming Price’s policing policies for the crime in the city that “continues to spiral downward.”
“There is nothing compassionate or progressive about allowing criminal behavior to fester and rob Oakland residents of their basic rights to public safety,” the Oakland NAACP wrote.
Price’s office responded by saying it was disappointed the organization would take up a “false narrative on such an important matter.”
The mother of Blake Mohs, a 26-year-old Home Depot security guard and aspiring police officer who was shot and killed in April, said Price is “failing to charge” her son’s case properly.
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“I have police officers that have seen the evidence,” Lorie Mohs said Tuesday, per NBC. “I have DAs that have seen the evidence. Pamela Price is directly choosing to not charge properly in my son’s case.”
Price won the DA race against veteran prosecutor Terry Wiley in November with 53% of the vote on the promise of addressing the issues in the criminal justice system, making history as the first black person to hold the office.
