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By City News Service Feb 28, 2021 LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Crime victims and law enforcement officials launched an effort to recall Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon tonight, claiming the sweeping changes he has initiated since taking office in December favor the rights of criminals over their victims.   Organizers planned to gather the signatures needed to file an intent to recall in a so-called “Victims Vigil at the downtown Hall of Justice. They expected up to 100 people to ...

Recall organizers gathered signatures from L.A. voters as they try to oust Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon. One American News Network reported that a victim rights group is sailing an effort to recall the district attorney, voicing out their opposition on the criminal justice reforms Gascon brought to the prosecutors office as he formally reports as the District Attorney in early December. NBC News added that the organizers planned to garner at least 20 signatures, the amo...

PALMDALE, Calif. (KABC) -- Family and community members gathered in Palmdale to celebrate the life of Gabriel Fernandez, the boy who was tortured and killed by his mother and her boyfriend, on what wouldve been his 16th birthday. On Saturday, flowers were piled up alongside birthday balloons at the tree outside his Palmdale apartment that was named after him. "We came to celebrate Gabriels life. So many people talk about his death, but we are here to celebrate his life and what Gabriel has don...

Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascòn talks to Adrienne Alpert on Eyewitness Newsmakers, which aired Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021. "I am not a terrorist," Hatami said at a news conference in front of the Hall of Justice in Downtown LA.. "No deputy DAs are terrorists." In reference to the Gabriel Fernandez case, Gascon told a local news organization that the man accused of torturing and killing the boy rubbed the prosecutor the wrong way, and that the prosecutor sought the death penalty...

Tweet Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon has only been in office a little over two months, but he is already a boil on the side of Lady Justice. Gascon has not only raised the ire of the Deputy District Attorneys in his office, but of District Attorneys in other counties across the State. Gascon’s “Special Directives” are being disregarded by local and regional law enforcement, and the liberal-leaning District Attorneys Union has filed a restraining order against him. Lo...

A Los Angeles County deputy district attorney filed a defamation and racial discrimination lawsuit against his boss, District Attorney George Gascón, in response to comments made by the elected official in television interviews. Deputy District Attorney Jon Hatami, a Santa Clarita resident, alleged both Gascón and his spokesman, Max Szabo, published defamatory language about Hatami and discriminated against him for his Iranian heritage. When asked for comment in response to the suit Wednesd...

A judge issued a preliminary injunction Monday against District Attorney George Gasón, preventing him from abandoning the “Three Strikes” law.

Bryan Chan/County of Los Angeles via AP We’ve reported on the individual Deputy District Attorneys and judges in Los Angeles County who are fighting back against George Gascon’s nonsensical directives in which he decreed a number of misdemeanors that would no longer be prosecuted, instituted blanket, office-wide policies against charging juveniles as adults, against seeking even life in prison, against adding any “enhancements” or special circumstances (i.e., gun, gang, multiple victims...

George Gascon Insults Victims, Backpedals On Sentencing Guidelines   George Gascon insulted victims and their families, and is now backpedaling on his sentencing guidelines. The outcry over his grandiose ill-conceived ideas which Darleen wrote about, gained volume and strength over these last few days. Gascon, in his infinite wisdom of making justice FAIR for all the criminals, decided that the following is no longer needed.  Cash bail Juveniles will no longer be tried as adults, no matter ...

AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes Los Angeles County Deputy DA Jonathan Hatami has been the voice of hundreds of his colleagues since George Gascon was sworn in as District Attorney on December 7, speaking out against Gascon’s Special Directives on numerous talk radio and television news shows. Appearing on Fox & Friends on Thursday, Hatami basically ripped Gascon a new one. Many people in states other than California blame Gascon’s win on liberal or uninformed California voters (forgetting that t...