Regardless, Kate Steinle Would Still Be Alive If San Francisco Were Not a Sanctuary City
A jury of six men and six women found Jose Ines Garcia Zarate not guilty of killing 32-year-old Kate Steinle in 2015 in a stunning verdict handed down Thursday afternoon. It convicted him of the lesser charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm, though it is not clear he will spend any time in prison.
As the nation absorbs the verdict, one fact remains true: were San Francisco not a “sanctuary city,” Kate Steinle would likely still be alive today.
Zarate, originally identified as Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, has seven previous felony convictions and has been deported from the United States to his native Mexico five times. When he was first arrested in July 2015, he said specifically that he had come to San Francisco because it was a “sanctuary city,” where local law enforcement would not cooperate with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to deport him from the country.
As ICE told Breitbart News at the time, Zarate had been held by local authorities in San Francisco in March 2015 on an outstanding drug warrant. ICE filed a detainer request, asking to be notified before his release. But because of San Francisco’s “sanctuary city” policy, local law enforcement did not cooperate with ICE, and Zarate was released in April 2015. He was not supposed to be in the country at all, but was walking around freely in San Francisco.
The prosecution argued that Zarate had deliberately fired the shot that killed Steinle. The defense argued that the shot had been inadvertent and that the gun — which had been stolen some time before from the car of a Bureau of Land Management ranger — was prone to accidental discharges. Zarate had initially told police that he had shot the gun deliberately, though it was not clear he understood their questions. The jury felt there was reasonable doubt.
But regardless, if he had not been in the country, the weapon would never have been in his hands and the bullet would never have killed Steinle as she walked on Pier 14 with her father. San Francisco voters understood that, tossing out Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi in the next local election. But his replacement, Vicki Hennessy, also supports sanctuary city policies. And as of last month, Democrats have turned all of California into a “sanctuary state.”
Zarate will be sentenced for the weapons charge. But the longest sentence he can receive is three years. And the time he has spent in jail thus far will likely count against his sentence. He will be released soon — perhaps even immediately. And it is quite possible, with San Francisco and California still refusing to cooperate with ICE, that he could be out on the street once again. And even if deported, he certainly knows how to sneak back in the country.
Steinle’s death had a profound effect on the 2016 election. Donald Trump was the only candidate in either party to understand its significance. He immediately took up the cause of American families bereaved by illegal aliens. The voters responded by putting him into the White House with a mandate to build a border wall and enforce federal immigration law. That mandate remains as strong as it ever was — regardless of what a San Francisco jury said. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/11/30/kate-steinle-would-still-be-alive-if-san-francisco-were-not-a-sanctuary-city/
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In the eyes of liberals, the killer is a hero of sorts. Laws don't apply to illegal aliens.
Actually it does.......that's why he was tried acquitted
So exactly what laws are you talking about then?
So by your logic he is automatically guilty of murder just because of his illegal status?! Evidence or facts to the contrary be damned huh?
Dude, Did you read the story?! He was tried in a court of LAW, evidence was given, arguments were made and a jury decided that there was reasonable doubt that he did NOT murder her! Please explain to me how some left wing fukwads as you describe them claimed laws don't apply to him in this case, Please....
Federal Immigration laws. Please don't pretend you didn't already know this.
Nobody said that he was or wasn't guilty of murder. Stop putting words in the mouths of others. The truth of it is if he hadn't been here in the states illegally, the death would not have happened. Try to wrap your mind around that.
And stop being disingenuous, you know exactly what we're talking about......but thanks for proving my point that all of you are just using this woman's body to further your agenda
How can using a "woman's body" be a defense against an ILLEGAL ALIEN?????
It doesn't matter what color she was, whether she was overweight/good-looking/FUGLY/short/tall/single/married - she was killed by an ILLEGAL ALIEN who, according to ALL IMMIGRATION LAW, should not have been in this country - period.
And how is he not being found guilty of murder somehow correlates to liberals thinking laws don' apply to illegal aliens?!
Yet again, Breitbart publishes some of its trademark diarrhea about this case and, dutifully as always to the cause, good ol' C4P brings it to a discussion board and slops it all over the place. The fact that SF is a sanctuary city has nothing whatsoever to do with this. When the SF DA dropped the pot case against him, ICE was notified to come get him from the city jail. He was kept there for 3 weeks waiting for ICE to show up and when they didn't he was released. This is why cities have not wanted to cooperate with ICE. ICE is an incompetent and rogue operation and city cops don't want anything to do with it. And if that were not enough, here's another damning fact about another federal agency that's pretty negligent and inept:
The report left out the fact that the weapon was left in plain view on a seat of a BLM vehicle parked on a downtown street. Our corrupt and bumbling system, mainly at the federal level is at least as much at fault for how Zarate and that gun came together as Zarate's stupidity for firing it.
where do you get your diarrhea? seems to be endless. you should take something for that.
Thank you for documenting what I referred to. The county had no legal basis to keep Zarate in jail yet kept him there for 3 weeks waiting for ICE to pick him up. Counties and cities are not obligated to fill their jails up with people without charges waiting for an incompetent ICE to drop by whenever it's convenient.
why do you make chit up?
where does it say anything about 3 weeks?
first you say
truth is
then you say
truth is
we can just assume all facts from you are bullshit as usual
Link please
Where do you get your facts? Seems to conflict with the testimony.
Yeah, of course the BLM guy's going to admit that he left the gun in plain view.
again....where did you get your info the gun was left in plain view? was there a witness who saw it plain sight? where do you get your facts?
Well, first off I'm not gullible enough to believe that BLM ranger's story. Then there's the fact that of the three civil suits filed by the family (vs. City and County of SF and BLM) only the BLM case was allowed to go forward and apparently is still active (or at least I can't find any report of a conclusion). But here's a report of the testimony involving the ranger at Zarate's trial:
One of the highlights:
Gonzalez asked Woychowski about his familiarity with the safety manual issued with his semi-automatic Sig Sauer P239 handgun, and specifically its warning to keep the gun unloaded when transporting it.
Prosecutor Diana Garcia objected.
“He’s a law enforcement officer,” she said. “That doesn’t apply to him.
Judge Samuel Feng overrulled[sic] the objection, and Woychowski said he didn’t remember reading that warning.
He's covering his ass, obviously, and the prosecutor is doing her best to help him. Oh, and did you notice that his story changed from hiding it under the front seat (from your Wiki link) to putting it behind the driver's seat?
you said it was a fact, which it is not. how you got to plain view on a seat from that article is perplexing. apparently you do not get your "facts" accurate.
SOURCE (emphasis mine)
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This is really the truth. I simply do not understand.