Bad Week for MCO & Boudin: Poster-Victim Arrested for Gun Warrant in Traffic Stop
Traffic stop on Dacari Spiers for expired registration yields another SFPD fruitful search
Dacari Spiers
On February 24, 2023, just after 5pm and during the Friday evening commute, the Southern Station four-car saw a 2016 Audi driving without a front license plate. The SFPD officers ran the plate on their car’s computer, which indicated the Audi’s registration was 6-months delinquent.
The four-car pulled over the Audi that Dacari Spiers was driving. When the officers ran Spiers’ identity in their computer, they learned he had a $105,000 warrant issued by the Emeryville Police Department for a violation of penal code section 29800- a convicted felon that was in possession of a gun. The officers arrested Spiers for the warrant. When they made an arrest search of Spiers, in his pants pocket they found a meth pipe caked with a cloudy residue.
It appears Spiers was very compliant with the officers. He was booked at County Jail #2 with a booking number of: 2023-00661751.
This traffic enforcement resulted in temporarily removing a gun-user off the streets and has the potential to get Spiers into a drug treatment program. It was a win-win for San Francisco and Spiers, but a loss for the progressive’s narrative.
Boudin’s failed attempt to throw an SFPD officer to the progressive wolves
In early 2022, Boudin was trailing badly in the recall pols. To appease his followers, Boudin threw everything he had into a case alleging Officer Terrance Stangel, who was responding to a domestic violence call, had used excessive force against- you guested it-Dacari Spiers.
Boudin painted Spiers as a peaceful person, compliant with the officers’ requests, and who had not been in the commission of a domestic violence crime as the 9-1-1 callers had described. In other words-a saint.
As I documented in my January 22, 2022 article, Boudin’s office withheld exculpatory information from Stangel’s attorney regarding the witnesses’ accounts. Two former DA investigators, Lieutenant Jeff Pailet and Megan Hyashi have ongoing personal lawsuits against Boudin over his questionable handling of the Officer Stangel and Officer Cha cases. Pailet claimed Boudin fired him for being a whistleblower.
In the Stangel court case that was heard by Judge Teresa Caffese who was a former San Francisco public defender, Boudin, a former public defender, assigned two prosecutors, Lateef Gray[1] and Rebecca Young[2], who were also former public defenders, despite them having zero prosecutorial experience.
With Boudin’s case against Stangel teetering, and prior to the case’s conclusion, the SF Board of Supervisors quickly authorized a $700,000 settlement to Spiers. (Does Spiers have the money now to pay for an attorney on his Emeryville gun charge?)
One year ago this week, Officer Stangel was acquitted of Boudin’s trumped up charges.
MCO
While San Francisco were focused on the recall of Chesa Boudin, Mayor Breed nominated Max Carter-Oberstone, known as “MCO,” to the San Francisco Police Commission.
The SF Police Commission sets policies for SFPD and conducts disciplinary hearings on charges of police misconduct and has outsized influence on the morale of SFPD. Three police commissioners are appointed by the board of supervisors, while the mayor nominates four commissioners. Thus, in theory, Mayor Breed controls the police commission through her ability to nominate a majority. However, within only a couple months as commissioner, MCO turned on Breed over numerous issues while finally showing his true colors and defecting- aligning himself with the progressives and giving them a majority.
While the public was focused on Boudin, MCO made pretext traffic stops his signature police commission policy- applying a Prop 47 mentality to the vehicle code. Yet, most of the public and SFPD officers don’t even know what a pretext stop is.[3] MCO told the Mission Local:
“There are a cluster of low-level traffic stops that are just not yielding any public safety benefit for the city. But they do take up a lot of time and they do cost a lot of money and by curtailing those stops we can reallocate all of those law enforcement resources to other strategies that we know are effective.”
You guessed it- MCO will claim the traffic stop on Spiers was against the new Police Commission-imposed policy that overrules the California Vehicle Code. The odds favor that Spiers was also originally caught with the gun in Emeryville because of a traffic stop.
Spiers’ arrest proves Boudin and MCO wrong
The arrest of Spiers not only refutes Boudin’s portrayal of him as being nonviolent (do you carry a gun?), but for three reasons, it also challenges MCO’s claims that traffic enforcement is not an effective as a law enforcement tool:
1) Specifically, without the Southern four-car pulling Spiers over, as a gun-carrying citizen, he would still be circulating in the public and still getting high on meth without the potential for treatment,
2) Like the lighthouse-effect, where we don’t know how many ships have been saved; we can’t calculate how many lives have been saved because criminals fear and avoid traffic enforcement, and
3) SFPD’s searches are still extremely fruitful in removing contraband from the streets. The confiscated meth pipe from Spiers is consistent with SFPD’s 79.4% contraband seizure rate as determined in Chronicle’s mysterious database (That only MCO has seen.)
MCO, Not including my footnotes, the word the was used 45 times and the word and was used 18 times.
[1] Lateef Gray, while working for the John Burris law firm, sued SFPD over Sean Moore’s death. Gray’s wife is Cindy Elias (another former SF public defender) who is president of the SF Police Commission with access to confidential SFPD files. With the Sean Moore-case still active, Gray left Burris to work at DA Boudin’s office, gaining more access to SFPD confidential files. In July 2021, the SF Board of Supervisors authorized a $3.25 million settlement to Sean Moore’s family. Gray’s financial interest and compensation for the work he conducted on behalf of Sean Moore’s family remains a mystery—and all of this, as I explained in my article, creates an image of impropriety.
[2] Rebecca Young was (or is still) married to Bill Harris of the Symbionese Liberation Army, who was involved with the kidnapping of Patty Hearst. Per Hearst, during a Sacramento area bank robbery, Bill’s first wife, Emily Harris, shot and killed Myrna Opsahi, the mother of four. Opsahi was depositing church funds in the bank. In Bryan Burrough’s book Days of Rage, on page 305, he wrote Bill Harris had nonconsensual sex with Hearst “The Harrises (Bill/Emily) squabbled over money, over their plans, over sex; when Emily denied him, (Bill) Harris simply mounted Patty, who was powerless to object.” This is the man Rebecca Young was/is attracted to.
[3] The Los Angeles Police Department defines a pretextual stop as one in which officers conducting a minor traffic or code violation escalate it into an investigation of a more serious crime unrelated to the initial violation.
We all know why certain people want to get rid of traffic stops! I had a Lt. once say "there is no such thing as a misdemeanor traffic stop". Good work SFPD, keep it up.
You are the BEST and most adorable of them all.