Fresno Cop Dead Thanks to Newsom’s Early Release Plan

In 2016, Governor Jerry Brown and progressive billionaire George Soros pooled just over $10 million to fool the public into passing Proposition 57, the so-called “Public Safety and Rehabilitation Act.”  While it was billed as providing well-behaved non-violent felons with a means to gain early release from prison, District Attorneys warned that it would give the state department of corrections unbridled authority to release inmates with multiple violent prior convictions.  Two years later a Los Angeles appeals court and a Sacramento judge ruled that this warning was correct.  In May of last year Governor Newsom’s appointed head of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) announced new regulations giving over 70,000 prison inmates the opportunity for early release.  A CJLF lawsuit to block these unconstitutional regulations has been dragging through the courts  since last Summer.  On Tuesday,  January 31, a police officer in the small farming town of Selma was shot and killed by gang member sentenced last March to five years in prison for several felonies.  He was released last November after serving seven months.

Sheyanne Romero of the Visalia Times-Delta reports that Officer Gonzalo Carrasco responded to a call from two women reporting a suspicious person in their yard.  As the Officer left his car, he was shot several times and died later in the hospital.  Gang member Nathaniel Dixon was arrested in possession of the gun suspected of being used in the murder.  Fresno County District Attorney Lisa Smittcamp called Newsom’s release plan a “warped system that allows active and violent criminals to receive arbitrary time credits.  This madness is creating more victims and furthermore, it is not serving the people who are committing the crimes.”   After serving one-fifth of his sentence, even though Dixon was a violent felon, Newsom’s policy allowed his release.  The death of this officer, whose fiance’ is expecting a baby, is on Governor Newsom’s hands.

Responding to Smittcamp’s statement, Newsom told reporters today;  “I’m sick and tired of being lectured by her on public safety. With all due respect to her statement, she should be ashamed of herself and should look in the mirror.”