Prosecutor Accuses Gascón Of Retaliation, Unethical Behavior For Dropping Felony Case Against Protesters
LAPPL News Watch
March 18, 2021
A
veteran prosecutor of the L.A. County District Attorney’s Office is
accusing D.A. George Gascón of retaliation and playing politics after he
says he was reprimanded and punitively transferred for questioning
Gascon’s order to drop a case against three anti-police protesters who
were charged with attempting to wreck a train.
LA County DA George Gascon
Now, FOX 11 has obtained
surveillance video and a jail call recording from one of the defendants
that raise questions about Gascón's decision to drop the entire case
against all of the protesters on his first full day in office, and the
prosecutor who was handling the case is going public with what he says
happened behind the scenes.
"You go into work every day, and you do the
right thing, that’s what I did, and I got reprimanded for it," said
Richard Doyle.
Doyle has been a prosecutor in the L.A. County DA’s
office for the past 34 years and had no blemishes in his personnel file
until last December when Gascón ruled him insubordinate his first week
in office.
"To the office, I think it sent the message of, you follow my
orders, or else," Doyle said.
At the time, Doyle was the head deputy
district attorney in the Compton office and he was prosecuting this case
against three anti-police protesters, Emanuel Padilla, Christopher
Berg and Jasmine Lomax, all of whom had been charged with trying to
derail a train at a protest near the Compton Sheriff’s Station on
November 15.
"It was a strong case, it was a strong prosecution," Doyle
said.
2 comments:
Gascon was an anti police neurotic zealot in San Francisco. The voters knew what they were getting when they elected him in LA.
What surprises me is that people act surprised by what he is doing in LA
Yup. It is like buying a pet skunk and then complaining when you get sprayed.
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