HUNTER: LA’s woke lawyer George Gascon’s charge sparks murder, mayhem

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Police found the two victims in the historic Mount Washington neighborhood of Los Angeles.

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Someone had parked a string of bullets into their bodies sometime shortly after midnight on Thursday. Witnesses said the gunmen approached the couple and then opened fire.

Both were dead on the spot.

But things are changing in crime-ridden Southern California.

The man dubbed “The Godfather of Progressive Prosecutors,” Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon, has been kicked to the curb by fed-up voters.

In the wake of George Floyd and the resulting riots in 2020, Gascon became billionaire George Soros’ golden boy. There were other soft-on-crime DAs across the US, but none quite as committed as the perma-tanned Gascon.

Few of the others had serial killers boasting that they would get tattoos of the DA plastered on their arms because of their annoyingly light sentences, as Luis Angel Hernandez did.

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From the moment Gascon was elected, he introduced a buffet of sweeping criminal justice reforms. Some of these reforms would undoubtedly have pleased criminal justice manipulators in Ottawa.

Gascon eliminated cash bail, refused to seek the death penalty for even the most heinous murders, and refused to prosecute juveniles as adults even if they were murderers.

The result was violence and chaos.

The Los Angeles Times reported that violent crime increased by 8% in LA County from 2019 to 2023.

“Los Angeles County voters have spoken and have said enough is enough of DA Gascon’s pro-criminal extreme policies, they are looking forward to a safer future,” winner Nathan Hochman, a former federal prosecutor, said in a statement Wednesday.

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The voters agreed. Gascon—which Hochman described as a “public safety failure”—received less than 40% of the ballots cast.

“As DA, I look forward to representing all the people, whether they voted for me or not, as their safety will be my responsibility,” Hochman said.

So far, Gascon has not commented on his defeat.

But the awakened DA gave its rival plenty of ammunition on the campaign trail. Even Gascon’s assistant district attorneys resigned in droves, urging him to quit.

More than 20 of them are now suing the lame-duck lawyer, claiming they were demoted and retaliated against for questioning the DA’s soft-on-crime policy.

Their union called Hochman’s victory an “important moment in the fight to bring balance and accountability back to the justice system.”

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What’s next for Los Angeles? Hochman vowed on hustings to “make crime illegal again.”

Prosecutors will have discretion to seek the death penalty for the most heinous murders and broader sentencing (ie, longer prison terms for gangbangers).

Already on Tuesday, voters approved a measure to make shoplifting a felony again for repeat offenders. Some sentences for drug offenses will also be sweetened.

This is all grim news for people like Shanice Dyer, 22. Dyer — a member of the Crips whose street name is Infant Chyna — was charged with first degree murder in 2019 by the DA’s predecessor.

She took down two innocent men, an expectant father and a NASA scientist. They were in the wrong hood.

Gascon tried the then 17-year-old as a juvenile, and she was sentenced to four years and less.

In early October, just months out of prison, she was charged with being an accessory to the murder of Joshua Streeter, 21, who was shot in the back.

Social experiments are best left in the faculty lounge, not the cold hard streets. George Gascon knows that now.

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