档案——在这张2020年6月2日的档案照片中，洛杉矶市长埃里克·加希提来到洛杉矶市中心，向黑人生命问题抗议者呼吁。当加尔塞蒂本周从地区检察官杰基·莱西那里撤回支持，并支持她的对手时，这是对一场运动的又一次打击，这场运动在一个夏天的全国范围内对警察暴行的抗议后进行了重组。(美联社照片/理查德·沃格尔，文件)
洛杉矶——经过一场激烈的辩论，洛杉矶县地方检察官杰基·莱西认为这场辩论提升了她的竞选活动，对她的对手来说是一场“灾难”，她收到了洛杉矶市长的短信，其中有一个不受欢迎的消息:他正在把他的支持转向她的挑战者。
埃里克·加希提的叛逃对莱西来说是一个打击，此前其他高调的民主党政治家在这场高风险的竞选中撤回了支持或改变了立场，这场竞选在一个夏天的警察暴力抗议后进行了重组。
失去支持增加了一个非常不寻常的动态，莱西是第一位管理全国最大的地方检察官办公室的女性和黑人，她面临着来自黑人生命问题支持者的一些最严厉的批评，因为她没有就致命枪击案起诉警察。与此同时，她的对手，前警察局长，被警察工会和公共安全组织诋毁，因为他支持激进的刑事司法改革。比起监禁，他更喜欢精神健康和药物治疗。
这场竞争涉及一个拥有近1000名律师的办公室，以及一个覆盖全国第二大城市和人口最多的县的1000万居民的司法管辖区，被视为试图重塑地方一级犯罪起诉方式的进步人士的皇冠上的宝石。
他们的目标是两届在任的莱西，他们的候选人是前旧金山地区检察官乔治·加斯孔，他在成为检察官之前是两个城市的警官和局长。
超过1200万美元的捐款已经投入到这场比赛中。一半多一点的支持者是Gascon，绝大多数来自少数支持司法改革的富裕支持者。
加斯孔的支持者包括亿万富翁乔治·索罗斯，他捐了150万美元，慈善家帕蒂·奎尔林捐了125万美元，她的丈夫网飞公司首席执行官雷德·哈斯汀斯捐了50万美元。莱西的大部分资金来自警察工会和其他公共安全团体。
乔治·弗洛伊德死于明尼阿波利斯一名白人警察的膝盖上，对此抗议活动的支持者是加斯康。那次事件让人们关注莱西的记录，在她任职的八年里，她在340多起致命的警察枪击案中只起诉了一名洛杉矶县执法人员。
Gascon得到了Patrisse Cullors的支持，Patrisse Cullors是“黑人生活问题”的联合创始人，该组织的洛杉矶分会每周在莱西的办公室外举行抗议，要求她下台。
洛杉矶加州州立大学派特·布朗公共事务研究所执行主任拉斐尔·索恩施因(Raphael Sonenshein)表示，这场竞赛为选民提供了一个选择，要么是法律与秩序检察官开展机构运动，要么是挑战者驾驭变革性司法改革运动的浪潮。他说，尚不清楚洛杉矶的深度多样性将如何发挥作用。
“因为这场运动重塑了警务政治，并带来了年轻一代，它在某种程度上打乱了种族政治的鸡蛋，”宋恩施因说。“你可能会发现在正义运动中非常活跃的年轻非裔美国妇女强烈支持加斯康，”而希望对犯罪采取强硬措施的拉丁裔选民可能会支持莱西，尽管加斯康是西班牙裔。
加尔塞蒂在他的支持中说，加斯康将“帮助我们的国家将刑事司法系统和监狱的负担转移到转移、干预和重返社会项目上，这些项目可以节省资金和挽救生命。”加尔塞蒂的父亲吉尔是两届地方检察官，曾是莱西的老板，他也支持加文·纽森州长和加州参议员以及副总统候选人卡玛拉·哈里斯。
莱西说，埃里克·加希提在10月3日的一次辩论后给她发短信说，他和加斯康已经是近20年的朋友了。他说他会从一开始就支持加斯科因，但在加尔塞蒂承诺在初选中支持莱西后，他加入了竞选。
莱西的支持者包括加州参议员黛安娜·范斯坦和旧金山第一位黑人市长伦敦·布莱德，她说她不担心加尔塞蒂的转变。她说，其他人失去支持，包括撤回支持但不支持加斯孔的美国民主党众议员亚当·希夫和特德·柳，以及改变效忠对象的议会议长安东尼·伦顿，都是弗洛伊德去世后的政治决定造成的。
“他们对种族不公正感到内疚，每个人都试图证明，你知道，他们不是种族主义者，”她说。“不幸的是，这被翻译成谁是更进步的候选人?更进步的姿态是什么?你可以支持公共安全，反对种族主义，这就是我。”
Gascon说，支持他的政客数量表明了对莱西的不满。
“她很难接受自己是个失败者，”他说。
莱西强调了她作为检察官的经验——她指出Gascon从未在法官面前审理过案件——以及她管理庞大办公室的能力是选民支持她的关键原因。她说，加斯科尼的政策将导致犯罪，并批评了他共同撰写的2014年第47号提案投票措施，该措施将一些非暴力重罪降至轻罪。
今年秋天加州选民面前的一个投票问题将恢复其中的一些惩罚。
加斯康的大部分职业生涯都在洛杉矶警察局度过，后来在成为地方检察官之前，在亚利桑那州梅萨和旧金山担任警察局长。她说，莱西没有追究警察的责任，因为她感谢他们的财政支持，她否认了这一说法。
他承诺重新调查至少四起莱西决定不起诉的警察杀人案，并强调了其他引起使用武力问题的案件。
莱西说，加斯康是在迎合支持者，他在旧金山的时候，何达从未起诉过警察杀人案。Gascon说，那些被警察杀害的人都涉及武装嫌疑人。他说，他将在改革的基础上减少大规模监禁，而不是寻求死刑，他说这也将减少犯罪。
Race for Los Angeles district attorney increasingly bitter
FILE - In this June 2, 2020, file photo, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti arrives to appeal to Black Lives Matter protesters in downtown Los Angeles. When Garcetti withdrew his support from District Attorney Jackie Lacey this week and endorsed her opponent, it was another blow to a campaign that has been reshaped after a summer of nationwide protests over police brutality. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel,File)
LOS ANGELES -- After a scrappy debate that Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey believed lifted her campaign and was a “disaster” for her opponent, she got a text message from the LA mayor with unwelcome news: He was switching his endorsement to her challenger.
Eric Garcetti's defection was a blow to Lacey after other high-profile Democratic politicians had withdrawn support or switched allegiances in the high-stakes campaign that has been reshaped after a summer of protests over police brutality.
The loss of support adds to a very unusual dynamic where Lacey, the first woman and Black person to run the nation’s largest local prosecutor’s office, faces some of her harshest criticism from Black Lives Matter supporters because of her failure to prosecute police officers for fatal shootings. Meanwhile, her opponent, a former police chief, is vilified by police unions and public safety groups because he backs aggressive criminal justice reform. He favors mental health and drug treatment over incarceration.
The contest to run an office with nearly 1,000 lawyers and a jurisdiction that covers the nation’s second-largest city and 10 million residents in the country's most populous county is seen as the crown jewel for progressives trying to reshape the way crime is prosecuted at the local level.
Their target is Lacey, the two-term incumbent, and their candidate is former San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon, who was a police officer and chief in two cities before becoming a prosecutor.
More than $12 million in donations have poured into the race. A little more than half is for Gascon, the vast majority from a handful of well-heeled backers supporting justice reforms.
Among Gascon's backers are billionaire George Soros, who has given $1.5 million, philanthropist Patty Quillin who gave $1.25 million and her husband, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, who donated $500,000. Most of Lacey's money has come from police unions and other public safety groups.
Gascon has gained support from protests over the death of George Floyd at the knee of a white Minneapolis police officer. That event focused attention on Lacey’s record of prosecuting only one LA County law enforcement officer in more than 340 fatal police shootings during her eight years in office.
Gascon has been endorsed by Patrisse Cullors, the co-founder of Black Lives Matter, and that organization's LA chapter has held weekly protests outside Lacey's office to call for her ouster.
The contest presents voters with a choice between a law-and-order DA running an institutional campaign and a challenger riding the wave of a movement for transformational justice reform, said Raphael Sonenshein, executive director of the Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs at California State University, Los Angeles. It's not clear how LA’s deep diversity will come into play, he said.
“Because this movement has reshaped policing politics and brought a younger generation in, it has sort of scrambled the eggs of ethnic politics,” Sonenshein said. “You might find young African-American women who are very active in the justice movement strongly support Gascon," while older Latino voters who want a tough-on-crime DA might back Lacey even though Gascon is Hispanic.
In his endorsement, Garcetti said Gascon would “help our county shift the burden from the criminal justice system and jails toward diversion, intervention, and re-entry programs that save money and save lives.” Garcetti's father, Gil, who was a two-term DA and once Lacey’s boss, also backs Gascon, as do Gov. Gavin Newson and California Sen. and vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
Lacey said Eric Garcetti texted her after an Oct. 3 debate to say he and Gascon had been friends for nearly 20 years. He said he would have endorsed Gascon from the start but he got in the race after Garcetti had pledged his support to Lacey in the primary.
Lacey, whose supporters include California Sen. Dianne Feinstein and San Francisco's first Black mayor, London Breed, said she wasn't concerned about Garcetti's switcheroo. She said the loss of endorsements by others, including Democratic U.S. Reps. Adam Schiff and Ted Lieu, who withdrew their endorsement but didn't back Gascon, and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, who switched allegiances, were driven by political decisions in the wake of Floyd's death.
“They have guilt over racial injustice and everybody’s trying to prove that, you know, that they’re not racist," she said. “Unfortunately, that’s been translated into who’s the more progressive candidate? What’s the more progressive stance? You can be in favor of public safety and be against racism and that’s who I am.”
Gascon said that the number of politicians supporting him shows the dissatisfaction with Lacey.
“She’s having a hard time accepting that she’s been a failure,” he said.
Lacey has emphasized her experience as a prosecutor — she notes Gascon has never tried a case before a judge — and her ability to run the massive office as key reasons for voters to back her. She said Gascon's policies will lead to move crime and criticized the 2014 Proposition 47 ballot measure he coauthored that reduced some nonviolent felonies to misdemeanors.
A ballot question before California voters this fall would restore some of those penalties.
Gascon, who spent most of his career at the Los Angeles Police Department and then became chief in Mesa, Arizona, and San Francisco before becoming DA there, has said Lacey hasn’t held police accountable because she is beholden to them for their financial support, a claim she denies.
He has pledged to reopen investigations of at least four killings by police officers that Lacey decided not to prosecute and has highlighted other cases that raise questions over the use of force.
Lacey said Gascon is pandering to supporters and that when he was San Francisco DA he never prosecuted a police killing case. Gascon said those killings by officers all involved armed suspects. He said he would build on reforms to reduce mass incarceration, not seek the death penalty and that he said would also reduce crime.
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