LA DA Gascon walks back claim of sheriff's involvement in hit-and-run case

Hard left Los Angeles DA George Gascon is up for recall and needs only about 60 thousand additional signatures for this to go forward by July 6th, and it looks like they will get them. LA county is practically lawless under his watch and people have finally awakened to it.

Now Gascon, a George Soros supported DA, is walking back his claim that the sheriff's department "agreed with the felony charges" and extremely light sentencing against a teenager convicted of intentionally driving a car into a mother and her infant son on August 6, 2021.

The driven now 17, pleaded guilty to two felony charges of assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury and one felony count of hit-and-run. He was sentenced to a 5 to 7 month vacation in a juvenile probation camp. I call it a vacation because the camp has been described by prosecutors as  "less than a military school and a little bit tougher than a summer camp."

An initial statement by Gascon provided to Fox News Digital said that the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department agreed with the charges and sentencing. Turns out Gascon isn't just incompetent, he's also a liar. 

His office told the media:

"Fortunately, the baby was uninjured, and the mother received a laceration to her elbow. The Sheriff’s Department agreed with the felony charges that were filed. At arraignment, the minor admitted two felony counts of assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury and one felony count of hit-and-run. The Probation Department recommended, and the court sentenced the minor to a youth camp for five to seven months, an appropriate resolution."

The statement added that juvenile justice is intended to "rehabilitate young people." [By evidently not holding them accountable for violent criminal behavior.]

"In this case, this teen will be held accountable for his actions and receive the needed services to foster positive development to keep him from committing future offenses," the fallacious statement read.

Los Angeles Sheriff Alex Villanueva called out Gascon saying, "We were never consulted as we were not the investigating agency." 

Once Gascon's office was "outed" it corrected the statement on Saturday, admitting that the sheriff's office was not involved.

"Need to correct our statement [aka false claim] from yesterday. LASD was not involved in the decision on the felony charge, as they were not the investigating agency in that case," a spokesperson for the district attorney's office said.

Villanueva had previously said that his office was not consulted regarding the charges.

"We were never consulted as we were not the investigating agency," the Los Angeles official wrote on Facebook and Twitter early Saturday. "Sheriff’s investigators would never be OK with the lightweight sentencing in this hit-and-run case. Stop empowering and encouraging criminal behavior. Hold them accountable #VictimsMatter."

The incident of what appears to be attempted murder was caught on surveillance video and shows the car hitting the mother and her infant in a stroller.

The mother wrote in a victim's impact report that she thought "those were the last moments of our lives."

"I thought those were the last moments of our lives; we were dead," the mother, who asked to be identified only as Rachel, wrote in a victim’s impact statement. "That feeling, along with the memory of a car accelerating directly into us, will haunt me forever."

Police sources say that the driver, who was 16 at the time, initially told police that the mother appeared out of nowhere and hit her on accident with the stolen car.

"As the car approached me and my child, I stopped walking and moved the stroller and myself up against a building on the right side of the road to ensure that we gave the reckless driver plenty of room to pass," Rachel said. "As the car got dangerously close to us, [the juvenile suspect] turned the wheels in our direction and accelerated as he aimed to kill us."

Rachel blasted Gascon for what she feels is basically a non-sentence because it is so light.

"I was also told that his record would be wiped clean when he turns 18," she continued. "How on earth can that be? He tried to murder two innocent pedestrians. Murder. And we have video evidence. My child would be dead if I hadn’t been there to protect him."

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A better sentence might be that the driver is banned from driving until he reaches the age of at least 35. If caught driving before that time he would be sentenced to 20 years in prison and stripped of his future driving privileges. His record should not be wiped clean. 

And Gascon must go. 

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