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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 attend, including many crime victims and Deputy District Attorney Jon Hatami, an outspoken critic ...

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 prosecutor's 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 amount needed to file an intent to recall, which happened during a victim's vigil outside the distric...

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 would've 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 Gabriel's life. So many people talk about his death, but we are here to celebrate his life and what Gabriel has done for everybody," said deputy district attorney Jon Hatami. "I can say, for me personally, he's ma...

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 in retaliation. Hatami called that claim "100% a lie." According to the complaint, on another news...

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. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark Arnold, and Judge James C. Chalfant have recently neutered Gasco...