I remember that Mayor George Moscone’s clothes spent more time in police custody than Dan White did. His effects were held as evidence until they finally were returned to his widow Gina.
I remember being in my kitchen and hearing this on the radio. Political assassinations in America were starting to be more common … I was a senior in High School when JFK was shot, and I was watching the returns when RFK was shot, and before him MLK! And now all of … THIS. I feel like I’m living that Spanish curse … “May you live in exciting times”. Please, God! Less excitement!!
Milk was my board rep. George Moscone’s niece was in my high school class, a half mile from city hall. White was in my brothers’ high school class. The other brother worked with him in the SFFD. Per them, White was always “off.” Never fit in. Milk was the first of many new arrivals who used SF offices as a springboard to state and even national. Feinstein was a native, but it was these assassinations that launched her hundred-year Senate career. Little known fact: Milk had 2 other officials on his list. Another board supervisor, blanking on her name, and Willie Brown, but they were not in city hall that day.
They cloned it for the "affluenza" defense, some judges and jurors have defective bullshit detectors, or just need an excuse to do what they wanted to do, anyway. Like the short sentence the Stanford swimmer rapist got, because the judge belonged to the same collegial group, as his privileged father.
That one also baffles me. Maybe we need to just end jury trials altogether because they always seem to come up with some truly startling and bewildering verdicts sometimes. Like, why bother trying the kid if there's gonna be that much of a fix?
Indeed, I mean two guys on campus caught him in the act, I just wonder what kind of person, sees an unconscious woman (in this case, but could have as easily been a male) and instead of making sure they are alright, proceeds to rape them? It should have been a textbook example and a slam dunk case.
Right? Takes a real sicko to take advantage of that situation. Kid should have been toast, but the fix was in. Fortunately, the court of public opinion doesn't so easily forget. His life may as well be over in anything but the sphere of his family's influence, and even that may well have its limits depending on how much of a giant turd he acts like.
Oh how I remember all this happening. At that point I was still a cog during the toddler stage of Silicon Valley. I was sitting at my desk trying to figure out how some field engineer could misplace a major computer part (it was a huge system disk) when I heard the news on my radio. Diane Feinstein was doing a press conference to let people know what was happening.
I remember that Mayor George Moscone’s clothes spent more time in police custody than Dan White did. His effects were held as evidence until they finally were returned to his widow Gina.
I remember being in my kitchen and hearing this on the radio. Political assassinations in America were starting to be more common … I was a senior in High School when JFK was shot, and I was watching the returns when RFK was shot, and before him MLK! And now all of … THIS. I feel like I’m living that Spanish curse … “May you live in exciting times”. Please, God! Less excitement!!
So White resigned after a tantrum, and then blamed everyone else for his situation. Sounds familiar.
Milk was my board rep. George Moscone’s niece was in my high school class, a half mile from city hall. White was in my brothers’ high school class. The other brother worked with him in the SFFD. Per them, White was always “off.” Never fit in. Milk was the first of many new arrivals who used SF offices as a springboard to state and even national. Feinstein was a native, but it was these assassinations that launched her hundred-year Senate career. Little known fact: Milk had 2 other officials on his list. Another board supervisor, blanking on her name, and Willie Brown, but they were not in city hall that day.
Do you mean White had the other officials on his list?
Thanks for the additional details, it’s an awful story that I didn’t know much about before
Yikes, yes, I meant White, thanks for the correction!
Yeah, id believe White's political failures were the primary reason and im still baffled as to why the "Twinkie defense" actually worked...
They cloned it for the "affluenza" defense, some judges and jurors have defective bullshit detectors, or just need an excuse to do what they wanted to do, anyway. Like the short sentence the Stanford swimmer rapist got, because the judge belonged to the same collegial group, as his privileged father.
That one also baffles me. Maybe we need to just end jury trials altogether because they always seem to come up with some truly startling and bewildering verdicts sometimes. Like, why bother trying the kid if there's gonna be that much of a fix?
Indeed, I mean two guys on campus caught him in the act, I just wonder what kind of person, sees an unconscious woman (in this case, but could have as easily been a male) and instead of making sure they are alright, proceeds to rape them? It should have been a textbook example and a slam dunk case.
Right? Takes a real sicko to take advantage of that situation. Kid should have been toast, but the fix was in. Fortunately, the court of public opinion doesn't so easily forget. His life may as well be over in anything but the sphere of his family's influence, and even that may well have its limits depending on how much of a giant turd he acts like.
Oh how I remember all this happening. At that point I was still a cog during the toddler stage of Silicon Valley. I was sitting at my desk trying to figure out how some field engineer could misplace a major computer part (it was a huge system disk) when I heard the news on my radio. Diane Feinstein was doing a press conference to let people know what was happening.
Thank you for remembering Mayor Moscone, whose support was integral to Mr. Milk’s success. Our family mourned their deaths.