[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - Chesa Boudin has been the District Attorney of San Francisco since 2019
- On June 14 a man was filmed stealing a garbage bag full of items from Walgreens
- The viral video was used of evidence for a crime wave in San Francisco
- Since 2014, thefts below $950 have been prosecuted as misdemeanors
- Boudin spoke to The New Yorker in an interview published on Thursday
- He said his response to the video was to ask whether the perpetrator was 'drug addicted, mentally ill, desperate' and what was 'driving this behavior'
- He asked whether Walgreens deliberately accounted for losses from theft
- The suspect, Jean Lugo-Romero, 40, was arrested on June 19 and remains in jail
- He previously robbed the same store on May 29, May 30, May 31 and June 1
- He was previously stopped by police and Walgreens declined to prosecute
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