by Robert Schmad
An illegal immigrant that then-San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris released from custody after police caught him driving without a license went on to kill a young law student months later with his car, the Washington Free Beacon reported on Tuesday.
Harris’ office dropped charges against Roberto Galo in June 2010 after he was stopped by police for driving the wrong way down a one-way road and arrested for operating a vehicle without a license, according to the Free Beacon. Months later, in November 2010, he slammed his car into 25-year-old law student Drew Rosenberg after making a left-hand turn at a yellow light, driving his car over his body multiple times in an apparent attempt to escape.
“What I’ve now learned is what happened to me is the rule, not the exception to the rule,” Don Rosenberg, Drew’s father, told the Free Beacon. “My son is dead because the DA did not believe (and continues to [not] believe) that driving without a license is a big deal.”
A person near the scene of Galo’s crash had to stand in front of his vehicle to prevent him from fleeing the scene of the crime, the Free Beacon reported. It took five men to lift Galo’s vehicle off Rosenberg’s body.
San Francisco law enforcement under Harris was reluctant at the time to prosecute cases against unlicensed drivers as activists claimed that such laws targeted illegal immigrants unfairly, according to the Free Beacon. A prosecutor in Harris’ DA office later told Rosenberg that her office prosecuted zero cases against unlicensed drivers during the year prior to his son’s death.
Galo (pictured above) was initially charged with vehicular homicide, but a judge later reduced the charge to misdemeanor homicide, the Free Beacon reported. Rosenberg said that Harris’ office failed to provide him with the date of the court hearing where the charges against Galo were reduced and initially declined to appeal the downgraded charges.
Harris’ office eventually relented and filed an appeal to revert the charges, but it was filed in the wrong court and rejected, according to the Free Beacon. George Gascón succeeded Harris one month after Rosenberg’s death and also declined to file an appeal.
Galo was convicted and sentenced to six months in prison for the death of Rosenberg, the Free Beacon reported. He was released after just 43 days, however, and Rosenberg said the DA’s office did not inform his family of the early release.
Harris’ campaign intends to run on her record as a prosecutor, seeking to present her as a tough prosecutor in contrast to former President Donald Trump, CNN reported. Many of the deep-pocketed donors who have thrown their support behind Harris have supported efforts to weaken law enforcement and aided George Soros in his quest to install left-wing prosecutors across the United States.
Rosenberg, a former Harris supporter, attempted to connect with her after she became California attorney general, according to the Free Beacon. He wrote to Harris in February 2011 that his son “voted for you for California Attorney General.”
“For my son Drew it would be the last vote he ever placed,” he wrote, asking to meet with the attorney general. Harris declined the meeting requests, according to Rosenberg.
The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
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Robert Schmad is a reporter at Daily Caller News Foundation.
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