{"id":1518778,"date":"2022-06-16T11:19:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T15:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1518778"},"modified":"2022-06-16T11:19:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T15:19:23","slug":"suspect-who-killed-two-california-police-officers-was-on-probation-thanks-to-soros-backed-da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/suspect-who-killed-two-california-police-officers-was-on-probation-thanks-to-soros-backed-da\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect Who Killed Two California Police Officers Was on Probation Thanks to Soros-Backed DA"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsuspect-who-killed-two-california-police-officers-was-on-probation-thanks-to-soros-backed-da%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1518778&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>The suspect accused of murdering two California police officers during a shootout Tuesday was a gang member out on probation after receiving a lenient sentence under a plea deal negotiated by the office of progressive Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/california-suspect-killed-el-monte-police-officers-probation-gun-charge\">Fox News<\/a>, Justin William Flores, who died at the scene, is accused of killing two El Monte police officers Tuesday night. He had a previous strike conviction and received two years probation after he was charged of being a felon in possession of a firearm.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\"><\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Recall efforts are already in the works against Gascon, who was recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/los-angeles-da-george-gascon-overstates-authority-court-rules\">reprimanded<\/a> by a California appeals court over his refusal to prosecute three-strike cases. The activist DA was elected in 2020 with the backing of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/06\/15\/campaign-to-recall-soros-backed-l-a-d-a-george-gascon-we-have-the-signatures\/\">billionaire George Soros and endorsements by the Democratic Party<\/a> in Los Angeles and throughout California.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: Per sources, the gang member who fatally shot two El Monte PD officers last night was on probation for felon w\/ a firearm after he received a bare minimum sentence in plea deal under LA DA <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeorgeGascon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GeorgeGascon<\/a> last year, despite having a previous strike on his record. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FoxNews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillFOXLA\/status\/1537186614149095424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Gascon\u2019s office said in a statement that the sentence is in accordance with the policies of the District Attorney. &#8220;The sentence he received in the firearm case was consistent with case resolutions for this type of offense given his criminal history and the nature of the offense. At the time the court sentenced him, Mr. Flores did not have a documented history of violence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>As a result, Flores was able to plead no contest and receive a light sentence, even though he had a strike on his criminal record.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>According to the DA\u2019s office, Flores received his first strike stems after being convicted for burglarizing his grandparent&#8217;s home over ten years ago. In 2020, he was arrested and charged for felony firearms possession and was also charged for possession of drugs for personal use.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>According to Fox News sources in the DA\u2019s office, if Flores would have been prosecuted in under the normal procedure, he would have likely been sentenced for up to three years in prison.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>On Wednesday, the recall campaign against Gascon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/los-angeles-da-george-gascon-recall-group-collected-required-signatures\">announced<\/a> that they had collected the required number of signatures for the question to go before the voters.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>According to law enforcement officials, Cpl. Michael Paredes and Officer Joseph Santana were responding to reports of a stabbing at a local motel when they encountered a suspect. A shootout broke out and both officers were struck and later died in a Los Angeles hospital.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Paredes was a 22 year veteran of the force and left behind a wife, daughter and son. Santana leaves behind a wife, daughter and a pair of twin boys.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>The shootings occurred a day after a California Highway Patrol officer was shot by a suspect in Los Angeles. He remains in the hospital and is expected to survive.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The suspect accused of murdering two California police officers during a shootout Tuesday was a gang member out on probation after receiving a lenient sentence under a plea deal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1518778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1518778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}