{"id":566,"date":"2017-12-05T20:12:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T20:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/?p=566"},"modified":"2017-12-06T00:28:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T00:28:59","slug":"no-sanctuary-for-kate-steinle-and-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/05\/no-sanctuary-for-kate-steinle-and-family\/","title":{"rendered":"No Sanctuary for Kate Steinle and Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kate Steinle’s final words after being shot in the back by a five-time deported illegal alien were, “Help me, Dad.”<\/p>\n

The final words of the San Francisco jury judging her accuser, who had a criminal record of seven felonies and who used a stolen firearm to shoot her: “Not guilty.”<\/p>\n

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Kate Steinle was 32<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On November 30 six men and six women jurors acquitted Jose Inez Garcia Zarate of\u00a0first- and second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter.\u00a0 They also found him not guilty of assault with a semi-automatic weapon. They did find Zarate guilty of illegal possession of a firearm due to his status as a felon – but according to SF Gate<\/strong><\/a> his attorney is wanting that sole charge dropped too.<\/p>\n

Only in Californiastan is illegal possession of a firearm a more serious offense than using it to kill someone.<\/p>\n

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Jose Inez Garcia Zarate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The jury consisted of men and women of varying educational levels and work backgrounds. According to Mercury News<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>the jurors were believed to all be millennials and three were immigrants. (It’s unknown if they were legal or illegal immigrants since Californiastan doesn’t “discriminate” between the two.)<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very pleased with the jury,\u201d said lead defense lawyer Matt Gonzales and chief attorney of the San Francisco Public Defender\u2019s Office. \u201cWe have such great diversity\u00a0built in San Francisco and I think we have a jury that understands a lot of the concerns about the defendant receiving a fair trial.\u201d<\/p>\n

So while Gonzalez basked in a fit of self-congratulation over San Francisco’s storied diversity, the court wasn’t concerned enough to share the defendant’s criminal record and how often he’d been deported with the jury.<\/p>\n

Both the defense strategy and verdict says a lot about San Francisco being more concerned about protecting the sanctity of their sanctuary city philosophy than providing justice for a murdered American citizen and her family.<\/p>\n

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