Almost a year after a multiple deported illegal alien shot and killed Kate Steinle in San Francisco, thanks to the Sanctuary City policeis, Steinle’s parts are now suing the federal government. I really hope they win.
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The parents of the woman allegedly shot to death by an illegal immigrant last year on a San Francisco pier filed a lawsuit Friday saying the man accused in the killing should have been in police custody if not for a series of mistakes by city and federal workers, KTVU.com reported.
The killing of Kate Steinle in July 2015 and the arrest of Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez put San Francisco’s leaders on the defensive as critics and outside politicians, including presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, called for a change in the city’s sanctuary law.
The sheriff at the time, Ross Mirkarimi, is named in the lawsuit, along with the city and other officials. Mirkarimi in the past has defended the release of the man, a repeat drug offender and habitual border-crosser.
“The Steinle Family hopes that their actions today will serve to highlight the lax enforcement of gun safety regulations among the law enforcement agencies involved and bureaucratic confusion so that this will not happen to others,” Frank Pitre, the lawyer representing the family, said to the station. The suit seeks unspecified damages.
Lopez-Sanchez has pleaded not guilty in January to second-degree murder and other charges in the death.