The grieving mother of a Los Angeles shooting victim confronted progressive District Attorney George Gascón with tough questions last week, slamming him in the face for his allegedly soft-on-crime policies.
“My child was killed by a gang member, and you were more sympathetic to that gang member than my child was killed in front of my house,” Emma Rivas said last Thursday. This was stated at a district attorney’s debate regarding the crime enforcement policy. .
“Could you please explain? I’ve been looking for you for four years.”
Gascón holds debate over loose gang-related crime enforcement policies in Los Angeles County
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón attends a press conference on Monday to discuss hiring homeless immigrants as replacement workers for strikers at Le Méridien Defina Hotel in Santa Monica on October 23, 2023 He also mentioned the suspicion that the hotel is using a staffing agency for this purpose. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Gascón responded, “I am heartbroken by your loss,” and defended his position on criminal justice reform, saying, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. As a country, we have been doing the same thing for generations.”
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Rivas, whose son was murdered in Los Angeles in 2016, joined “Fox & Friends Weekend” on Sunday to follow her tense exchange with the embattled prosecutor.
“We cannot have such a progressive attorney general in office,” she said. “This is the first time in our 180-year history that we have a prosecutor who has a heart for the criminal and no heart for the victim. There are parents who have lost their 16- or 17-year-old children to murder. Five years in prison. Years, where is the justice in this?
Emma Rivas, whose son was shot and killed by gang members in 2016, faced prosecutor George Gascón last Thursday over alleged crime mitigation policies. (Fox & Friends Weekend/Screengrab & KTTV)
“And he’s sitting there, smiling and laughing, not caring at all. He’s not fit to be a prosecutor, and his assistant is a defense attorney. How did he get here? And , Why don’t people realize this guy is a criminal? “What good for LA? He’s already ruined San Francisco and now he’s going to do the same to Los Angeles County. ing. ”
According to FOX 11 in Los Angeles, after taking office as district attorney, Gascon banned prosecutors from pursuing higher-level punishments against gang members.
Several deputy district attorneys running against him announced their opposition to the policy last Thursday.
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Meanwhile, Rivas strongly criticized the policy’s impact on the sentencing of her son’s killer.
Gascón has previously defended his crime policies, telling KTLA-TV in June 2022 that he blamed the increase in violence in the county on the COVID-19 pandemic, saying, “I know how to keep society safe,” he said.
Members of the Los Angeles Times editorial board also expressed support for Gascón’s re-election efforts, arguing that “voters would be wise to reject this nonsense and maintain Mr. Gascón’s tenure and criminal justice reform.” Obtained.
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FOX News’ Landon Mion contributed to this report.
