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San Francisco 49ers receiver Ricky Pearsall, shot in the chest during an armed robbery on August 31, played his second NFL game Sunday night versus the Dallas Cowboys. At this writing the shooter, allegedly a minor, remains unidentified. In California, a “youthful offender” is anyone under 26. This absurdity is now on display in George Gascon’s bid to free the Menendez brothers, who gunned down their parents in 1989.

Gascon was previously DA in San Francisco and his successor was Chesa Boudin, son of Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, Weather Underground terrorists arrested for their involvement in a 1981 armored car robbery in New York State. Chesa is named after Joanne Chesimard, of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) a cop-killer who fled to Cuba. Also known as Assata Shakur, Chesimard is the icon of Black Lives Matter (BLM). In 2022, San Franciscans recalled the pro-crime Boudin and voted in Brooke Jenkins, who promptly fired Boudin cronies and cracked down on violent crime. Ricky Pearsall is fortunate that Boudin was not DA when he was shot, in broad daylight in Union Square.

As announcer Mike Tirico noted on Sunday, Pearsall brought first responders Sgt. Joelle Harrell, and Dr. Lucy Kornblithto a game and presented them with signed jerseys. It was a feel-good moment, somewhat spoiled by commentator Chris Collinsworth. After Pearsall took a handoff and sprinted for 39 yards, Collinsworth said the 49er “wasn’t the fastest guy.” Maybe Collinsworth hadn’t checked the scouting combine.

Pearsall ran the 40 in 4.41 seconds, faster than Christian McCaffrey’s 4.45 and not far behind the 4.31 of the Kansas City Chiefs’ Xavier Worthy, the fastest time ever recorded at the combine. Pearsall’s 6.64 time in the three-cone drill was the best of all receivers. His vertical jump is 42 inches, way up in David “Skywalker” Thompson territory. Remember, none of this can be faked. Whatever you think of professional sports in general, and the NFL in particular, it’s all based on merit, God-given talent on display. And unlike politics, the game does not proceed until the penalty has been marked off.

Chesa Boudin is now executive director of UC Berkeley’s Criminal Law & Justice Center, so he isn’t running for DA this year. George Gascon, in effect the Menendez brothers pro-bono attorney, trails Nathan Hochman by a wide margin. Former San Francisco DA Kamala Harris, author of the heavily plagiarized Smart on Crime, wants to be president, but Harris and Gov. Gavin Newsom never denounced the shooting of Ricky Pearsall as a case of “gun violence.” In juvenile court the shooter will likely get off easy, and according to California law, if this criminal was under 16, he could murder the entire 49ers team and gain release at age 25. Call it the injustice inherent in the system.