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Gun used in SF shooting belonged to a Federal Agent

Postby Daglord » Tue Sep 01, 2015 8:40 pm

this could get interesting...

STEINLE FAMILY TO FILE LAWSUIT AGAINST SF, FED OFFICIALS
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/01/steinle-family-to-file-lawsuit-against-sf-fed-officials/

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The family of Kathryn Steinle — the woman whose shooting death sparked a national outcry over illegal immigrant crime — is filing a lawsuit against local and federal officials over her murder, according to reports.

Steinle family is slated to file the suit Tuesday and it will name San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, according to ABC7 News.

The sheriff’s department released alleged killer Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez from custody less than three months before Steinle was shot, ignoring an immigration detainer ICE had lodged against him. Sanchez is a seven-time convicted felon who had been deported from the U.S. five times. San Francisco’s sanctuary city policies have been blamed for the release.

The gun that was used to shoot Steinle was a BLM gun that the agency says was stolen from an agent’s car.

Speaking to ABC7 News, Steinle’s mother, Liz Sullivan said the release of violent illegal immigrants must stop.

“It’s something that needs to end. We don’t need them here, not violent felons,” she said. “They’re violent felons and they’re illegal, enough said. It’s too late for us, that ship has sailed but we want it for future, possible victims. We’ve got to put an end to it.”

Despite the Steinle family’s calls for change, Mirkarimi has stood firm in his decision to ignore ICE detainers and, according to ABC7 News continues to refuse ICE detainer requests.

“Federal courts have actually held that detaining someone for ICE is unconstitutional, it’s unlawful,” sheriff’s office attorney Mark Nicco told ABC7.

Steinle was shot and killed while walking with her father at San Francisco’s Pier 14 on July 1.

“Sometimes we’re together and then sometimes we’re falling apart at the seams,” Sullivan told ABC7.

Steinle’s murder has inspired legislation aimed at cracking down on sanctuary cities and deported illegal immigrants who re-enter the U.S.

Last month the House passed one such bill that would block jurisdictions with sanctuary policies from receiving certain law enforcement grants. It has also become a topic of debate in the 2016 presidential election, with top candidates weighing in on the policies that may or may not have contributed.

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Postby Edge Guerrero » Tue Sep 01, 2015 8:47 pm

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Postby Daglord » Mon Oct 30, 2017 7:05 pm

this forum didn't "ignore it"... remember how fucked up this story was? a lot more than meets the eye IMHO.

** I do believe the family is a-political. IRC, Kate was close with Abby Martin.

Ep. 74 - The False Flag Everyone Ignored - The Peculiar Case of the Kate Steinle Murder



It was the story that ignited the national debate on Sanctuary City policy. A 32-year old San Francisco woman named Kate Steinle shot and killed by an illegal immigrant as she walked along Pier 14 with her dad. The alleged shooter Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, who has since strangely changed his name to Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, was a 7-time felon who had been deported 5 times prior to the shooting. The story was quickly politicized and many of the downright confusing details never saw the light of day. Today that changes as we shed light on the story's uncomfortable details, and illustrate how the murder of Kate Steinle has all the hallmarks of a modern false flag.

you don't forget something like this (more info on previous page):



July 2, 2015: An NBC Bay Area news crew was attacked early Thursday morning while reporting a story in a mugging that injured the photographer, whose camera gear was also stolen. A second station was also robbed of its gear.

The brazen attack occurred just before 6 a.m. at Pier 14 in San Francisco, where the reporter and photographer – along with several other news stations – were covering a story about a woman who had been shot to death there the night before. NBC Bay Area is not identifying any victims of the attack.

As the two were about to go on air, a man pulled up to the curb in a black four-door BMW, approached the photographer and pistol-whipped him with a gun then shoved him to the ground, the photographer and reporter said. The man then grabbed the photographer's camera gear, and as he was struggling to get it inside his getaway car, returned to pistol whip the photographer again, the news crew reported.

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Pier-slaying defendant came to S.F. at sheriff’s request
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Lee-slams-Mirkarimi-for-not-talking-to-6373929.php?cmpid=twitter-tablet

San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has deflected blame in the release of a Mexican national now facing murder charges in the Pier 14 slaying by demanding to know why federal authorities returned him to San Francisco to face a 20-year-old marijuana charge in the first place.

The answer, it turns out, is that the Sheriff’s Department asked federal officials to do so.

Mirkarimi’s agency requested custody of Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez as he was completing a 46-month stint in federal prison in March in San Bernardino County, according to a Sheriff’s Department letter obtained by The Chronicle. Lopez-Sanchez had been deported five times to Mexico and had been imprisoned for illegally re-entering the U.S.

Ranger Whose Gun Was Used In Steinle Slaying Was Promoted
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/10/20/ranger-whose-gun-used-in-steinle-slaying-was-promoted/

SAN FRANCISCO (AP/CBS SF) — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management promoted a ranger months after his stolen gun turned up in the hands of a Mexican man accused of using it to kill a woman on a San Francisco pier, according to media reports.

KQED News said an internal BLM email thread it obtained shows that Ranger John Woychowski was promoted to a supervisory position five months after Kate Steinle’s July 2015 death.

Woychowski had reported that the gun was stolen from the backseat of his car a few days before Steinle’s killing. The man accused of killing Steinle, Jose Ines Garcia-Zarate, said the gun was wrapped in T-shirt he found under a bench, and it went off accidentally.

"wrapped in a T-shirt"??

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Feds Balk at Subpoena for Ranger’s Testimony in Kathryn Steinle Murder Case
https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/14/feds-balk-at-subpoena-for-rangers-testimony-in-kathryn-steinle-murder-case/e

An attorney for the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management is arguing that the federal government must give its permission for a ranger whose stolen gun was used to kill Kathryn Steinle to testify in an upcoming murder trial.

And that’s unlikely.

But the legal reasoning offered in a Thursday letter to defense attorneys for Juan Francisco Lopez Sanchez, who is accused of killing Steinle, appears to contradict itself.

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Kathryn Steinle’s slaying has garnered national attention, driven largely by politicians and pundits pushing for harsher immigration policies. Lopez Sanchez is a Mexican national with a long history of deportations and illegal re-entries in the U.S.

But his defense attorneys argue that Lopez Sanchez has no history of violent crime or theft, and he simply picked up an object wrapped in cloth that he found on San Francisco’s Pier 14. They say Steinle’s death was an accident: Woychowski’s lost Sig Sauer pistol went off in Lopez Sanchez’s hands, the bullet ricocheted off the pier and struck Steinle in the back about 100 feet away.

Woychowski’s testimony is critical to the case, defense attorneys said, and the federal government’s arguments against it don’t apply.

“We’re citing Bureau of Land Management’s own regulations for why the objection that they’re raising doesn’t apply,” said Matt Gonzalez, San Francisco chief deputy public defender and one of Lopez Sanchez’s defense attorneys. “He started the chain of events that put this gun on that pier, in our opinion, and so his relevance is obvious.”

Federal agent describes car break-in that led to the killing of Kate Steinle with stolen duty weapon
http://www.sfexaminer.com/federal-agent-describes-theft-gun-used-killing-kate-steinle/

John Woychowski, a Bureau of Land Management ranger stationed near the border of the U.S. and Mexico, set in motion one of the most controversial killings in San Francisco in recent history, according to defense attorney Matt Gonzalez, when he parked his luxury sports utility vehicle along The Embarcadero the night of June 27, 2015.

Woychowski testified Thursday that he and his family had stopped in San Francisco on a trip up the California coast when someone busted into two rear windows of his car, stealing a fully loaded handgun he stashed in a backpack underneath the driver’s seat.

“My fiance yelled out, ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe this,’” Woychowski said in court, describing the moment he realized his car was burglarized. “I saw the back seat on the passenger’s side was smashed out.”

Four days later, prosecutors say an undocumented immigrant named Jose Ines Garcia Zarate fired the stolen handgun on Pier 14. The bullet ricocheted off the ground and struck 32-year-old Kate Steinle in the lower back, sparking a national debate on immigration.

“Whether or not somebody bears some responsibility is different than whether or not somebody bears criminal responsibility,” Gonzalez told reporters. “There’s no question that he acted negligently and he triggered a course of events that led to the death of Kate Steinle.”

Word of the killing spread all the way to President Donald Trump, who used Steinle’s death to paint undocumented Mexican immigrants as criminals during his presidential campaign.

The testimony of Woychowski on Thursday offered new details into the auto burglary that defense attorneys say started it all.

Two federal attorneys appeared in court to support Woychowski and deputies hid him from the media when he exited the courtroom.

“I’ve never seen a witness this protected,” Gonzalez told reporters outside the courtroom.

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Postby Daglord » Mon Oct 30, 2017 9:05 pm

W) gun was supposedly placed inside the case pictured above, underwater, before resurfacing.

T) one particle of gunshot residue on his hands compared to 18,000 particles of crackers on hands from the food he had eaten earlier.

F) no cloth, rag or T-shirt found anywhere near crime scene.

Prosecutors show grainy footage of Kate Steinle’s killing on SF pier
http://www.sfexaminer.com/prosecutors-show-grainy-footage-kate-steinles-killing-sf-pier/



A distant security camera recorded the moment Kate Steinle fell to the ground on a San Francisco pier after an undocumented homeless man allegedly pointed a gun in her direction and pulled the trigger two years ago.

Jurors viewed the surveillance footage Wednesday afternoon in the trial of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, a Mexican citizen charged with second-degree murder in connection with the killing on Pier 14.

The grainy video shows Steinle fall to the ground and Garcia Zarate walk away after throwing the gun in the water, according to the prosecution.

But Garcia Zarate and Steinle appear only as small figures in the footage that was shot from about a quarter-mile away at the San Francisco fireboat dock.

Prosecutor Diana Garcia showed footage in court Wednesday that recorded Garcia Zarate walking away from the scene. Garcia also called several San Francisco police officers to testify, including the diver who recovered the gun from the water.

Matt Gonzalez, an attorney for Garcia Zarate, said he did not see the defendant raise his hand to point a gun at Steinle in the video.

The central question in the trial is whether Garcia Zarate intended to shoot Steinle with the gun on July 1, 2015.

The bullet that struck her in the back ricocheted off the ground, and Gonzalez claims the handgun discharged on accident after Garcia Zarate found it wrapped up near the place he was sitting on the pier.

“You see the tremendous distance between where Mr. Garcia Zarate is seated and where Kate Steinle is hit with this bullet,” Gonzalez told reporters outside the courtroom. “That is a very key part of this because it impeaches much of what we know took place during the interrogation of Mr. Garcia Zarate.”

Police initially believed that Garcia Zarate was standing near the end of the pier when he shot Steinle and questioned him based on that assumption.

But Craig Dong, the officer who recovered the footage from the Port of San Francisco the day after the shooting, said Garcia Zarate sat in a chair near the middle of the pier for about half an hour before the shooting.

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Gonzalez also said that police never believed Garcia Zarate when he told them he found the weapon, and as a result did not investigate whether someone could have left the gun on the pier.

Gonzalez claims the footage shows a group of people who may have put the gun down near the chair before Garcia Zarate sat there.

“We identified a group of six people gathered at that very seat for a long time picking up, putting down things,” Gonzalez said.

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Dong, who specializes in video forensics, admitted in court that he did not pay close attention to the footage before Garcia Zarate walked onto the pier.

The prosecution also showed footage of Garcia Zarate ambling down the Embarcadero after the shooting. At one point, Dong pointed out that Garcia Zarate sifted through a trash can.

Gonzalez has argued that Garcia Zarate is someone who would dig through trash or pick up a wrapped object on a pier like the gun that killed Steinle.

The footage also showed Officer Andrew Bryant arrest Garcia Zarate at Embarcadero and Townsend Street.

“He immediately complies with the police when they roll up,” Gonzalez told reporters. “There’s just no issue about that.”

But Bryant told a different story in court Wednesday.

Bryant said he was driving his marked police car in search of the shooting suspect when he saw Garcia Zarate sitting near Java House at Pier 40.

“When we finally made eye contact — we call it like a deer in headlight — his eyes got big,” Bryant said in court.

Bryant said Garcia Zarate stood up and started walking away before he pulled over and pointed his weapon at the defendant.

“I said ‘stop,’ and he kind of just looked at me and continued to walk,” Bryant said, adding that Garcia Zarate then laid on the ground.

Bryant then searched and handcuffed Garcia Zarate. About 45 minutes later, Bryant said he put bags over Garcia Zarate’s hands to preserve any gunshot residue as evidence of the shooting.

The crime lab later recovered just one particle of gunshot residue on his hands compared to 18,000 particles of crackers on his hands from the food he had eaten earlier, according to Gonzalez.

Gonzalez suggested the gunshot residue particle could have been transferred from an officer or the patrol car he was placed in.

Meanwhile, the police diver who found the pistol Garcia Zarate threw into the pier testified Wednesday that the gun was wedged between a boulder and concrete in the murky Bay waters.

Scott Hurley, a San Francisco police officer on the Underwater Hazardous Device team, said in court that he crawled along the ocean floor through silt and old wooden piers until he touched the handgun.

“I held it up to the front of my face,” said Hurley, but water was too murky to see the weapon. “I climbed up onto a rock holding the gun and stretched my arm out as far as I could to try and get some light.”

That’s when Hurley knew what he had discovered. The officer and his partner placed the weapon in a plastic box and brought it to the surface, where it would later be tested at the police crime lab.

Though Gonzalez claims the gun was wrapped up in clothing, Hurley testified he did not find a rag at the bottom of the Bay when he found the weapon covered in silt.

Hurley did say that he could not see more than three inches in front of his face and was diving in zero visibility.

“It was just the gun by itself,” he said.

But Gonzalez pointed out during cross examination that Hurley was not searching for the cloth in which the gun may have been wrapped.

“You are not testifying that you were doing a search for any cloth?,” Gonzalez asked.

“Correct,” Hurley said.

Garcia also introduced photographs into evidence showing the divers recovering the weapon the day after the killing.

Garcia Zarate is facing a second-degree murder charge and two other felonies. He faces up to life in prison if convicted.



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