Attorney General’s bid to curb attacks on federal law enforcement sabotaged by her own prosecutors in San Francisco
Attorney General Pam Bondi’s bid to curb violence against federal law enforcement suffered an early reverse today as her own prosecutors in San Francisco argued for a time-served 27-month sentence for a felon who smashed the face of a female FBI counter-terrorism specialist as she walked near her office.
The attempt by local U.S. Attorney Craig Missakian to secure the immediate release of Akal Allen failed after a federal judge refused point-blank to consider it without better guarantees of public safety.
The call for leniency comes one month after he leveled misdemeanor charges against the ‘trans’ man who, armed with a knife, pursued ICE agents down a San Francisco street threatening to stab them. And last week his prosecutors suffered a humiliating setback when a federal judge dismissed their 188-month sentencing proposal for a firebomber of government buildings and imposed a 235-month term.
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria this afternoon rejected line prosecutor Michael Lagrama’s plea to immediately release Allen after imposing a time-served prison term fifty percent lower than the guideline sentence.
Allen is one of the leading exponents of the ‘random San Francisco street attack’ with a 100-page rap sheet of atrocious violent and sexual assaults against women and children. His June 2023 assault on the on-duty FBI employee left the woman with a broken nose, partially paralyzed face and post-concussion syndrome.
He is a ticking time bomb who will inevitably assault other women and children.
The courtroom debacle comes two days after Bondi demanded that U.S. Attorneys around the country take swift action to protect federal officials and to prosecutor to the fullest extent of the law those who do them harm.
“Violence against federal officers will not be tolerated,” said Bondi.
But the message sent by the U.S. Attorney’s office in Northern California seems clear: if you’re in the market to violently assault federal law enforcement, or attack federal buildings, you’ll get considerably more lenient treatment from prosecutors here than anywhere else in the nation.
The approach contrasts with that of Bill Essayli, the hard-charging U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles, who made clear from the first days of his appointment he would crack down on attacks against federal officials and that he would align his enforcement priorities with those of the Department of Justice in D.C.
A catalog of depravity
Allen approached the woman – a crisis management specialist working for the FBI’s counter-terrorism unit – on the early evening of June 8 2023, yelling angrily, and “without provocation” punched her in the face, immediately breaking her nose and causing her to later develop facial paralysis.
He struck her one more time before fleeing, later attacking other pedestrians.
Allen has spent much of the past two years in a federal medical center where, the court was earlier told, he enjoyed regular ‘burger nights’.
In a motion filed ahead of today’s hearing prosecutor Michael Lagrama asked the court to release Allen immediately to a halfway house. He said the court couldn’t order Allen to take antipsychotic drugs as a condition of his release lest it interfere with his rights. The best that could be done, he said, was for him to be assessed by a psychiatrist to see if a treatment plan would “further promote public safety.”
Lagrama was silent on what his office expected San Franciscans to do in the meantime were they to encounter the defendant on the street.
“Mr Allen does have a long history of criminal conduct, and violent criminal conduct, and I am very concerned about sentencing him and releasing him unless we can make sure he is compliant with his medication,” said Judge Chhabria.
The Obama-appointee said he had no problem in principle with endorsing prosecutors’ time-served sentence proposal. He told Allen to come back to court in two weeks after a UCSF psychiatrist had examined him.
The highlights of Allen’s criminal career illustrate his danger.
In 2011 he choked, punched and repeatedly raped a developmentally disabled 21-year-old woman, who prosecutors said had “the mentality of a child”, after leading her to an abandoned Vallejo house.
He pleaded guilty to ‘unlawful sexual intercourse’ and was given two years’ imprisonment.
In 2014 he broke into a house in San Francisco’s Alamo Square where two girls, age 12 and 14, were home alone. The 14-year-old encountered Allen in the famliy bathroom and was asked by him to come inside, before both girls escaped. Allen served 44 days for aggravated trespass.
In 2019 he walked into a San Francisco laundromat, stripped naked and masturbated in front of a series of women doing their laundry, including one folding clothes with her child, before rubbing his erect penis on the buttocks of another woman.
“I pulled my dick out, yeah, that ain’t a crime.”
Akal Allen
“I pulled my dick out, yeah, that ain’t a crime,” Allen explained to police officers who arrived on the scene and arrested him nearby.
He pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors and was released after nine months in jail.
He was subsequently arrested for assault with a deadly weapon in November 2020, in Oakland, and then in San Francisco, for assault with a deadly weapon, in June 2022 and for assault and battery in December 2022. The assault on the FBI employee took place in June 2023.
In February 2003 he pleaded ‘no contest’ to a felony count of ‘inflicting cruel or inhuman punishment on a child in June 2001. He was sentenced to a notional four years’ imprisonment, but by early 2005 he had already picked up more arrests.
“I’m going to go after your family”
Adrian Guerrero, aka Angelica Guerrero, used a knife to slash the tire of a van being used by Department of Homeland Security officials to transport a just-detained suspect in San Francisco’s financial district on August 20 2025.
Guerrero is accused of then pursuing officers down the street, while armed with a knife, telling them “I’m going to fuck you up,” “I’m going to go after your family,” and “I’m going to stab you”.
“I’m going to fuck you up.”
Adrian Guerrero to ICE officials
Federal prosecutors in San Francisco charged Guerrero with two misdemeanors: assault on a federal officer and damaging federal property. He was immediately bailed at a hearing packed with his mask-clad supporters who laughed at the federal prosecutor as the judge denied his request that Guerrero be banned from approaching federal law enforcement.
”Acts of domestic terrorism are not to be tolerated”
Last week a man who, wearing a dress, set fire to police vehicles in Berkeley, CA and later firebombed a federal building in Oakland, CA as part of a pro-Palestinian protest was given a 235-month sentence.
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White disregarded the plea by a prosecutor from Missakian’s office who said 188 months was plenty for the domestic terrorist.
“I have to say,” said White, “that in over 20 years on the bench this is one of the most serious series of crimes that I have ever seen.”
“Our federal agency partners are well aware that they have the full support of the U.S. Attorney’s Office as they conduct their law enforcement operations in this District.”
Spokeswoman for Craig Missakian
Thus far Missakian’s term of office appears indistinguishable from his Biden-appointed predecessor, Ismail Ramsey, and seemingly betrays an anxiety not to take any action that would incur the wrath of local political activists.
Compared with the gung-ho Essayli in Los Angeles, who has embraced Department of Justice priorities on enforcement and gone toe-to-toe with critics on air and online, Missakian has kept his head down and appears intent on not moving from that posture.
It remains to be seen how tenable his position is.
A spokeswoman for Missakian insisted that he meets regularly with federal law enforcement chiefs in the Northern District of California.
“Our federal agency partners are well aware that they have the full support of the U.S. Attorney’s Office as they conduct their law enforcement operations in this District,” she said.
She refused to be drawn on whether Missakian had followed Essayli’s example and begun in earnest a program of removing criminal illegal aliens from local jails.
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