An appeals court on Friday threw out the gun possession conviction against the man acquitted of murder in the 2015 killing of Kate Steinle on the San Francisco waterfront. The ruling by the First District Court of Appeal overturned the only guilty verdict San Francisco prosecutors won against Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate...
Unless you've been living under a rock or unless you've ignored all news coming from California, you already know the backstory: America's Sweetheart Kate Steinle was spending quality time with her family at the Pier, something that tens of thousands Californians do every single day. Slightly before that, a thuggish criminal, Garcia-Zarate, who was a felonious drug dealer, (I'm not talking about whether or not illegal immigrants should be allowed in California, but if you come to this state, illegally, and deal drugs, I don't give a fuck if you're going to be massacred in your home country, you deserve to be deported,) was legally rescued from ICE by the City of San Francisco.
ICE had Garcia-Zarate in custody, ready to be deported, until San Francisco's completely disgraced sheriff, one Ross Mirkarimi, (perhaps the only person dumb enough to work in Florida's election counting system,) demanded that Garcia-Zarate be handed over to San Francisco to be prosecuted for a Marijuana charge. Needless to say, Garcia-Zarate was sicked on the streets of San Francisco shortly after, where he found a gun, belonging to a federal agent: https://www.city-journal.org/html/san-f ... 15590.html
A barely literate drug dealer... with a second-grade education, no English, and a penchant for criminal aliases... The drug dealer changed his story several times during police interrogation, first saying that he had been aiming at a sea lion, then claiming that he didn’t even know that he was handling a gun. The gun had been stolen from the parked car of a federal law enforcement agent four days earlier...
So why's it relevant today? Because the Appeals Court dismissed the final point of the case against Garcia-Zarate, declaring him innocent as a lamb!
“It is undisputed that (Garcia-Zarate) was holding the gun when it fired,” wrote Judge Sandra L. Margulies, with two other judges concurring. “But that fact alone does not establish he possessed the gun for more than a moment. To possess the gun, (Garcia-Zarate) had to know he was holding it.”
How do you not know that you're holding a gun? Garcia-Zarate's a drug dealer, he's not someone who's never seen guns before, and even if it was in cloth, it's pretty darn easy to know a gun when you're feeling it. Him and that opinion writer Margulies are the only two people I've heard of, that know what a gun looks like, but don't know how to hold it. But fear not NSG, the real perpetrator is Donald Trump, because the Federal Government is justly bringing a Federal Case against Garcia-Zarate for a crime that Garcia-Zarate actually committed:
Garcia-Zarate’s attorneys have described the federal case against him as a political prosecution motivated by the Trump Administration’s anger at the San Francisco jury verdict.
Why won't Trump just let drug dealers shoot random Californians on piers? What a bastard! Sarcasm aside, for once, I am very thankful for what President Trump and the Federal Government are doing, because the only place that Garcia-Zarate belongs, is jail.
Kate Steinle:
Bit about her:
Steinle had just recently moved in with her boyfriend in San Francisco and commuted down the Peninsula to her job with Mountain View medical device company Medtronic. She was volunteering with an organization called Challenged Athletes Foundation in San Diego that helps disabled athletes reach their goals. “She just had that sincere, keen and genuine interest in our athletes,” said Ludwig’s father, Jeffery Essakow, who runs the nonprofit.
So where does NSG stand on this issue? Is it ok to pick up random things that shoot and kill strangers on piers? Is Trump doing this solely for votes? Has the City of San Francisco gone completely insane?