During a campaign rally in Tucson, Ariz., earlier this month — his first since debating Vice President Kamala Harris — former President Donald Trump doubled down on his false claims that Haitians are stealing and eating people’s pets in Springfield, Ohio. Hochman said on a December 2021 Twitter Space chat that Fuentes had “gotten a lot of kids based, and …
Los Angeles County Dist. “We have no tolerance for hate in our community,” he said during a news conference at the Hall of Justice, adding later that “police are doing their work, we’re prosecuting cases.” Gascón’s remarks come nearly four years after he issued a widely criticized directive ordering prosecutors to stop seeking sentencing enhancements that allow for added penalties …
Rob Bonta won by a wide margin over Republican defense attorney Nathan Hochman in California’s race for top cop — a position that rose in importance and relevance after two U.S. Supreme Court decisions this summer rolled back laws on gun control and abortion access. Bonta, a former San Francisco Bay Area state lawmaker known for his progressive views on …
Before he was elected to the state Assembly in 2012, Bonta served as a deputy city attorney in San Francisco and vice mayor for the city of Alameda. Bonta said that public safety is “priority and job number one, two and three,” but he’s faced pushback for laws he supported that his critics blame for an increase in certain crimes …
