LOS ANGELES—The grieving mother of one of the El Monte Police officers who was gunned down earlier this week while on duty blamed Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón for allowing the suspect to take a plea deal in a prior criminal case in 2020.
“I blame the death of my son and his partner on Gascón,” Olga Garcia, the mother of El Monte Police Officer Joseph Anthony Santana, 31, said during a press conference outside of the El Monte Police Department on June 17.
