Posted on 06/22/2024 1:09:40 PM PDT by lowbridge
After a brutal, unprovoked attack by a homeless man at a McDonald's drive-through in Boyle Heights that left 74-year-old Jose Juan Rangel battered and bruised and his wife Maria Guadalupe Vargas Luna brain-dead, the family has received yet another blow. This time, the LA County District Attorney George Gascón's office states they plan to file a motion to dismiss the most severe charge against Charles Green, a felony count, and only keep the lesser charge of misdemeanor battery.
"The DA, in my opinion, is brushing it off. They're not really seeing the big picture of what impact the injuries that my dad and my stepmother suffered," says Veronica Rangel, the elderly couple's daughter.
In an email, the Deputy District Attorney explained: "The evidence does not establish proof of an intentional act that resulted in Ms. Vargas' fall."
Rangel adds, "They said that he didn't intend to push her, that it was an accident."
In the video, you can see the defendant attacking Jose. They're on the ground, and when Vargas tries to help her husband, she is pushed by the scuffle, falls, and hits her head on the concrete.
"Whatever happened to her, they said he can't be held accountable, only for what he did to my dad. But even what he did to my dad, they want to give him a misdemeanor battery for beating up an old person," laments Rangel.
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You are the one who needs a lesson.
BS. They could make it stick if they wanted to. But they don't care.
Unfortunately that isn't the case. By the way, the public only hears about the heinous, serious stuff. They don't hear about all the other stuff that doesn't make headlines. Going anywhere in public nowadays is a real risk. The mentally ill and violent criminals are everywhere.
This is why the wealthy are now surrounded with armed guards, armed drivers, expensive home security around the clock, cameras, tall security fences, trained dogs etc. The wealthy even had to ditch their limos due to the fact it made them big targets.
RE:This is why the wealthy are now surrounded with armed guards, armed drivers, expensive home security around the clock, cameras, tall security fences, trained dogs etc.
Like the woman from Venezuela in the anti-gun control ad: “They took away all our guns and said it would be safer but the gangsters, the drug cartels and the security guards for the politicians still have their guns. We are helpless now.”
though I feel for the rest of the family in having this happen, my guess would be they voted for this sort of government in their area.
100% beef could mean any part of the cow, as in scrap parts too.
The economical "potted meat product" labels used to go into great detail about the parts used.
“100% beef could mean any part of the cow, as in scrap parts too.”
I know what beef looks like...it’s beef, trust me.
Time to remove the DA and the homeless guy frim the gene pool.
George Gascon has always been a Piece of Shlt.
Why should we expect anything else than this, from him?
Another reason to pray that California slides into the Pacific Ocean, never to be seen again!
They downgraded the attack on the husband to a misdemeanor, when it is clearly a felony. But a felony charge means that *anything* bad that happens can also be charged: hence, the getaway driver of a bank robbery can be charged with murder if a victim has a heart attack, or even if a fellow robber is shot dead.
This case is so indicative of the ongoing destruction of our justice system.
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