2 months ago
9
FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A Fresno City councilman is criticizing the Fresno County District Attorney's Office and the sheriff's bureau for mishandling the arrests and prosecutions of stateless people.
Councilmember Miguel Arias believes that the gruesome onslaught connected the beloved metropolis worker, Tim Smith, could person been prevented.
"I knew thing similar this was going to hap eventually, due to the fact that the connection retired successful the unhoused assemblage is that you tin perpetrate immoderate you privation successful Fresno and you'll ne'er spot the region jailhouse for longer than an hour. And you decidedly won't get prosecuted by the region DA."
County officials accidental that's conscionable not true. Fresno County District Attorney Lisa Smittcamp and Sheriff John Zanoni told YourCentralValley.com that there's not capable country successful the jailhouse to clasp individuals who bash not airs a menace to the public.
But Sheriff Zanoni says calling it overcrowding is not correct.
"We whitethorn person unfastened beds wrong the jailhouse close present arsenic we speak, we inactive whitethorn person to merchandise radical nether the national consent decree," Zanoni said.
He states that if the jailhouse houses inmates who are astatine hazard of getting into fights with each other, but bash truthful anyway, the jailhouse could beryllium sued for failing to support the well-being of those inmates.
"Because we knew what the imaginable result would be," Zanoni said.
Smittcamp says that Padavona's transgression past doesn't constituent to an onslaught arsenic heinous arsenic the 1 caught connected surveillance video past week.
"That's wherefore helium was 1 clip released connected his own, recognizance by a judge. And 1 clip helium was released connected overcrowding," DA Smittcamp said.
Zanoni portrays the onslaught arsenic an indictment of California's penal system.
"The city's not to blame. The county's not, you cognize who is to blasted for this onslaught connected the metropolis employee? It's Dyllan Padavona. And I accidental that due to the fact that this is what's incorrect with our system. We look to blasted different people. Blame the idiosyncratic who committed the crime. He needs to beryllium held accountable. And I judge with the charges that helium has, he's presently successful our jail. He volition beryllium held accountable this time," helium said.
Arias besides claims that the Fresno County DA's Office is not prosecuting radical who are charged with the city's no-camping ordinance.
"That's wherefore the metropolis has had to money its ain prosecution squad and has had to instrumentality folks to proceedings due to the fact that the region strategy has been doing it," Arias said. But Smittcamp said, "That's truly conscionable not true."
Smittcamp shared that her bureau has ne'er been approached astir prosecuting these types of cases, but is much than blessed to reappraisal them if they do.
