VIDEO: FAITH, CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND COMMUNITY LEADERS ALONG WITH THE WRONGFULLY CONVICTED BACK GASCÓN FOR LADA
Burton: “We spend billions and billions and billions of dollars on a system that does not make our community safer”
LOS ANGELES – Today, George Gascón’s campaign for Los Angeles District Attorney released a new video featuring prominent Los Angeles leaders including Susan Burton, founder of A New Way of Life Reentry Project, Reverand Eddie Anderson of McCarty Memorial Christian Church in South LA, Franky Carillo, whose murder conviction was reversed by the Superior Court after he served twenty years in prison, Chris Newman, an immigrant rights attorney, and Tim Kornegay, a community organizer with L.A. Voice.
“These are the voices of the communities who are most impacted by the way the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office has been doing business,” said former District Attorney and Assistant Chief of the LAPD, George Gascón. “We cannot modernize our system and enhance safety and justice without their leadership and commitment, so it’s humbling to have their faith and support.”
For more information about George Gascón go to www.GeorgeGascon.org.
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George Gascón grew up in Los Angeles after his family immigrated from Cuba. An army veteran, Gascón served as a Los Angeles Police Department Officer for 30 years, rising to the rank of Assistant Chief of Operations. In 2006 he became Chief of Police in Mesa, Arizona, where he stood up to the hateful and anti-immigrant policies of then Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. In 2009, then-San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom appointed Gascón Chief of Police. Newsom turned to Gascón again in 2011 when he tapped him to be District Attorney to fill the seat vacated by an outoing Kamala Harris who had been elected Attorney General. During his tenure Gascón implemented reforms that are being duplicated across the country while overseeing violent crime and homicides drop to rates not seen in 50 years. After being elected to two terms, Gascón returned to Los Angeles to care for his elderly mother and to be closer to his two daughters and grandchildren in Long Beach. Gascón is married to Fabiola Kramsky, a three-time Emmy Award winning journalist and recipient of the “Premio Nacional de Periodismo,” the highest recognition given to journalists in Mexico.