
<p>It has happened in a Californian court again and so nothing surprising that a violent thug got away with murder because a certain judge decided that the public was better off with him on the streets than locked behind the bars.</p>



<p>Last week, the story of 24-year-old Antonine Watson released on probation for his brutal killing of an 84-yeear-old man in early 2021 in San Francisco made news. The senior citizen named Vicha Ratanapakdee, an immigrant from Thailand, was on his usual walk in his neighborhood when he was assaulted and thrown down on the ground by the thug. The injuries led to Ratanapakdee’s death and outraged the Stop Asian Hate advocates.</p>



<p>Now Watson walks free, thanks to the leftist jury and judge – the former concluding that Watson was not a danger to society despite killing the old man in an unprovoked assault that was caught on camera. So Judge Linda Colfax readily agreed and sentenced him to eight years and but suspending his three remaining years and releasing him on probation.</p>



<p>Crime-friendly judges predominantly, if not exclusively, belong on the leftist side of the political divide. Was it the killer’s race (African-American) that helped him earn a friendly ruling from the judge? Was it the judge’s own leftist worldview in which criminals from certain minorities get special (sympathetic) consideration regardless of how much harm their crimes bring to the victims and their families? On Real America Voices, the conservative panel of commentators criticized Judge Linda Colfax’s soft sentencing with Kevin Downey Jr. calling it out as a racial ruling favoring the criminals and part of the leftist plan to keep these “animals” on the street, letting them victimize more people.</p>



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<p>On March 31, <em>The American Tribune</em> cited Monthanus Ratanapakdee, daughter of Watson’s victim, who called out Judge Colfax’s sentencing “deeply disappointing” that denied justice to her deceased father and her family. In her words:</p>



<p><em>“Our community is very heartbroken. My mom, 73 years old, feels uncomfortable even to walk out on the street right now.”</em></p>



<p>Fox News talked to Monthanus Ratanapakdee and her husband Eric about the ruling. They agreed that Judge Colfax’s sentencing reflected the leftist political agenda of “criminals first and victims last.”</p>



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<p>It is relevant to consider the personal ideology and values of Linda Colfax through the years in relation to her service as an elected judge. Since winning the 2010 election for San Francisco County Superior Court, Colfax has been re-elected mostly unopposed or just by winning a primary vote but without a general election as happened in 2022. She has run as a “non-partisan” candidate in these elections, which seems a politically clever way to appear independent. But at least until 2010, she was a registered Democrat as recorded in her profile on legal websites like Trellis.law.</p>



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<p>Judge Colfax is also a member of the LGBT community. She was included as “an IALGBTQ+ board member for over 10 years” and former Vice President” of the National LGBTQ+ Bar Association’s Nuts &; Bolts Academy for Judicial Candidates. Her bio reads:</p>



<p><em>Judge Colfax and her wife have 2 adult children, 2 dogs, and 2 chickens.</em></p>



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<p>So the dots are easy to connect, and they make a dark sketch.</p>

Woke Judge in San Francisco Lets Violent Killer of GrandPa Vicha Walk Free
