The Epoch Times LOS ANGELES—The grieving mother of one of the El Monte Police officers who was gunned down earlier this week while on duty blamed Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón for allowing the suspect to take a plea deal in a prior criminal case in 2020.
“I blame the death of my son and his partner on Gascón,” Olga Garcia, the mother of El Monte Police Officer Joseph Anthony Santana, 31, said during a presser outside of the El Monte Police Department on June 17.
“Gascón will never know how I feel. Gascón will never know how he destroyed our families. He won’t know how his [Santana’s] children feel. Crime is so high in California because criminals don’t stay in jail long enough. We need to make criminals responsible for their actions. We need law and order.”…
