Posted on 08/10/2024 2:34:46 PM PDT by Libloather
The brother-in-law of fallen San Francisco cop Isaac Espinoza said he’s voting for Donald Trump – and that his own family’s tragedy makes this personal.
Speaking exclusively with DailyMail.com, Edgar Mendez said District Attorney Kamala Harris is the reason Espinoza’s killer was not prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
Despite pressure from several California Democrats to bring the death penalty, Harris held firm to a campaign pledge and secured a sentence of life without parole for 22-year-old gang member David Hill, who gunned down the 29-year-old with an AK-47 during a routine traffic stop.
Harris, who was just three months into office, went on camera just three days after the killing to announce her decision in a press conference, without seeking input from the victim’s family or even telling them in advance.
‘People need to know what it was like back in 2004 when my brother-in-law passed away,’ Mendez, 45, told DailyMail.com.
‘She didn’t even give us a call before she decided whether she was going to seek the death penalty,’ he said.
‘She just went ahead and announced it. She seemed more focused on fulfilling a campaign promise as opposed to showing compassion, reaching out to family, and really being on the side of justice.’
In 2019, Espinoza’s widow Renata Espinoza expressed her anger at Harris during her last failed campaign for president.
'I don't understand why she went on camera to say that without talking to the family,’ she told CNN. ‘It's like, you can't even wait till he's buried?'
'I felt like she had just taken something from us,' she added.
'She had just taken justice from us. From Isaac. She was only thinking of herself. I couldn't understand why. I was in disbelief that she had gone on and already made her decision...
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But she will really get tough on crime, unlike Trump.....just ask her. As if she has never been in office before.
We have to rely upon a foreign news source to read about this. No reporter in the U.S. would touch it. They all act like nobody has any memory of anything, just make up jack as you go along. This can’t last. She hasn’t even been nominated at the convention yet, and already she’s being coronated by the MSM. Just when you think the Dems have out-Heroded Herod, they show you that you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
It was certainly a tragedy for that family but they are definitely mistaken about the reason she didn’t seek the death penalty for the criminal who killed their loved one. She wasn’t fulfilling any CAMPAIGN PROMISE. She was following her belief system and was determined to turn common sense on its head which she’s done in every action she’s ever taken. I have a hard time believing that the family haven’t caught on to that. THAT in itself is very sad. People will continue to vote for her UNTIL a similar tragedy hits them. Look at her record before it’s too late, folks..
Bologna!
On June 22, 2008, Tony Bologna (age 48) and his sons, Michael and Matthew (ages 20 and 16, respectively), were shot dead near their residence in the Excelsior district of San Francisco as they returned home in the afternoon from a family barbecue in Fairfield.
San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris sought a maximum sentence of life in prison without parole rather than the death penalty should Ramos be convicted.[17] Mayor Newsom supported Harris’s decision.[18]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_the_Bologna_family
I remember this when it happened. We used to drive right through the intersection where the killing occurred, a residential street leading to Alemany Blv. which splits to Interstate 280, right around the time of the killing.
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