Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, the Mexican illegal alien who murdered Kate Steinle, got away with it. His lawyers made the case about Trump. The jury, at least three of whom were immigrants, bought it. Not recycling is now a more serious crime in California than murdering a young woman.
After Zarate gets his slap on the wrist, he'll be deported. It's happened five times before. And didn't take. What are the odds he'll be back here after a sixth time? Rather good, I would say.
But there is another option. And it would send a message to San Fran and California's government.
Bring Federal civil rights charges against Zarate.
It walks the fine line with double jeopardy. But it's been done before in cases where a biased jury let a murderer walk for political reasons. The Lemrick Nelson case in the Crown Heights Pogrom comes to mind. As do the murders of civil rights workers.
Federal prosecutors have a much better track record. And they can move forward without being tainted by the political agendas that lead jurors to side with murderers that have the right identity politics, whether it's Sharpton's supporters, the KKK or La Raza.
And it would send a clear message that California's racist left is not above the law. And that American lives matter.