Ran Into Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams

So I'm at the supermarket just now. I'm headed to the self-checkout and lo-n-behold I SEE THIS MAN COMING RIGHT AT ME. So I told him "You look familiar." and he promptly said "How you doing!?" but HE KEPT MOVING TO THE SELF-CHECKOUT.

As he is scanning his items a few other people acknowledge him, but FOR THE MOST PART NOBODY THERE FUCKIN RECOGNIZES HIM!
-_-
This?
Is why We as Black People are on the verge of extinction.

How the fuck DO YOU VOTE FOR SOMEONE BUT THEN CAN'T RECOGNIZE THEM IN PERSON WHEN THEY WALK AMONG YOU!??!!??!

I was TEMPTED TO STOP HIM AND ASK HIM SOME QUESTIONS! But he quickly was done with his small amount and on his way. NOW?! For him to be using that Shoprite means HE LIVES IN THE GOOD PART OF THIS AREA THAT DIRECTLY ADJOINS DELAWARE COUNTY. Where understand what I have told you before.

Where I am at, which IS WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE TO THAT SHOPRITE?
But it REQUIRES YOU TO WALK UPHILL FOR A NICE LITTLE BIT!
When Wayne was still here, HE HATED GOING UP THAT HILL AND SO!?
He often times WENT FURTHER INTO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD TO SHOP!

So understand that MINOR DETERRENTS LIKE A FUCKIN STEEP-ASS HILL STOPS SOME OF US FROM GOING PLACES, which is fuckin crazy! And Wayne and I argued about that one time too till he said up front that HE NEVER HONESTLY THOUGHT ABOUT IT TILL I ASKED HIM WHY HE DOESN'T GO UP THE HILL TO SHOP! And it is BECAUSE OF THE HILL ITSELF AND IT IS EASIER TO WALK FURTHER INTO....

The Killing Zone.
-_-
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, okay.
I guess.
And lemme be clear.
There are cameras on corners, nicely hidden, but there.
HOWEVER AS YOU HEAD UP THE HILL into the more stable Black Neighborhoods CAN'T FIND ANY OF THOSE CAMERAS.
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Bottom line is that it was interesting to see LITTLE TO NO REACTION BY ANYONE THERE THAT THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY OF PHILADELPHIA WAS SHOPPING IN THEIR MIDST. And he was gone before I could catch up to him again to ask him some questions.

Rufus Seth Williams (born January 2, 1967) is the 24th and incumbent District Attorney of the city of Philadelphia. He began his term January 4, 2010.^[1] He formerly served as an Assistant District Attorney (ADA).^[2]Williams is the first African-American District Attorney in Philadelphia and in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.^[1]

Rufus Seth Williams was put up for adoption after his birth. After placement in two foster homes, he was adopted^[3] and grew up in West Philadelphia, the only child of Rufus O. Williams, a teacher at Sulzberger Middle School, and his wife, Imelda, a secretary at the Philadelphia Naval Ship Yard.^[4]

He attended Friends' Central School, Central High School and Penn State, where he served as President of the Penn State Student Black Caucus, the Undergraduate Student Government, and was member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. As a student activist, he led a 102-mile march to the state capital at Harrisburg to get Penn State to divest from South Africa. He was a parishioner of St. Carthage Roman Catholic Church (now known as St. Cyprian's), and was altar boy of the year at age 14 in 1981. He graduated from Georgetown University Law in 1992 with distinction as a Public Interest Law Scholar.^[2]

After graduating from Georgetown, Williams joined the District Attorney’s Office. He served 10 years as an Assistant District Attorney. In that time, he was appointed Assistant Chief of the Municipal Court, where he supervised the 30 newest prosecutors. He also created and led the Repeat Offenders Unit with the goal of reducing the high percentage of crimes committed by repeat offenders. His courtroom experience includes 37 jury trials, more than 1,500 bench trials and more than 2,500 felony preliminary hearings.^[4]

In 2005, he challenged Lynne Abraham, Philadelphia's longtime incumbent District Attorney, in the Democratic primary, but lost with 46% of the vote. Following the election, he was appointed Inspector General of the City of Philadelphia, where he was responsible for investigating allegations of corruption, fraud, waste, abuse and employee misconduct among municipal workers and companies doing business with the city. He left in 2008 to take a position as counsel at Stradley, Ronon, Stevens & Young, a Center City law firm.^[4]

On November 3, 2009, Williams was elected District Attorney of Philadelphia. Winning more than 75% of the vote, he became the first African American District Attorney of Philadelphia, and in the entire Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He was sworn in January 4, 2010, succeeding Abraham.

In January 2011, Williams office brought multiple charges through a grand jury against Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell primarily for killing infants after birth.^[5] In 2013, Gosnell was convicted of killing three infants who were born alive during abortion procedures,^[6] and is now serving a life sentence.^[7]

In 2011, Williams initiated the prosecution of what became known as the "Billy Doe"case - the prosecution of three priests and a schoolteacher for sexual abuse of an altar boy and student (pseudonym Billy Doe) whose account of the alleged abuse changed so as to call into doubt the veracity of the charges that Williams had brought.^[8] According to a Newsweek article by Ralph Cipriano, Williams "has not explained any of the factual discrepancies in Billy’s many stories, and why the D.A. would proceed with what Williams described as a “historic” prosecution of the church with a star witness so lacking in credibility."^[8] The Catholic League claimed that the four men had been "railroaded by an ambitious D.A."^[9]

In 2015, Williams came under fire for not firing prosecutors, who were involved in sharing pornographic, misogynistic, and racially charged emails on Pennsylvania government computers.^[10][11][12] The scandal, labeled "Porngate" by the state media, forced Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Seamus McCaffery to resign.^[13] It also forced the suspension of Supreme Court Justice J. Michael Eakin.^[14] After considerable backlash, Williams reassigned the prosecutors, but did not fire them.^[15]

In 2010, he was awarded an Eisenhower Fellowship. Eisenhower Fellowships is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization that fosters international understanding and leadership through the exchange of information, ideas, and perspectives among outstanding leaders throughout the world. He has also been selected for the Aspen Institute-Rodel Fellowship Program for Public Leadership. This program is only open to 24 U.S. political leaders - 12 Democrats and 12 Republicans - deemed as "rising stars" in their communities. The two year fellowship is designed to briefly break down partisan barriers and provide officeholders with an opportunity to step back from their daily responsibilities to consider broader questions of good governance. In October 2011, he received an Alumni Fellow Award from Pennsylvania State University.^[16]

Williams is an adjunct professor at Temple and Villanova Universities, as well as an Advisory Board Member at Penn State Abington. He is a Major in the JAG Corps, U.S. Army Reserve.^[4]

Williams resides in Philadelphia with his three daughters.^[17] He is a Roman Catholic who regularly attends Mass at St. Cyprian Parish, where he was an altar boy while growing up.^[5]