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Thursday 23 November 2017

No verdict yet in San Francisco pier killing as jury breaks

accident or a calculated a federal judge in San
murderer playing a sick Francisco permanently
game. blocked Monday.
Steinle was walking with her But the politics of immigra-
father and a family friend tion were not allowed to
in July 2015 when she was come up in the monthlong
shot, collapsing into her fa- trial.
ther’s arms. Garcia Zarate San Francisco Deputy Dis-
had been released from trict Attorney Diana Garcia
the San Francisco jail about said in her closing rebuttal
three months before the Tuesday that she didn’t
shooting, despite a request know why Garcia Zarate
by federal immigration au- fired the weapon, but he
thorities to detain him for created a risk of death by
deportation. bringing the firearm to the
He had been deported five pier that day and twirling
times and was wanted for around on a chair for at
a sixth deportation. least 20 minutes before he
Steinle’s death put San fired.
Francisco’s “sanctuary She said he then ran away
city” policy in the spotlight, while other people tried to
as Democrats and Republi- figure out what had hap-
cans lashed out at city of- pened. The bullet rico-
Jim Steinle, center, and Liz Sullivan, right, the parents of Kate Steinle, walk to a court room for clos- ficials for refusing to coop- cheted on the pier’s con-
ing arguments in the trial of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate accused of killing their daughter, on Monday, erate with federal deporta- crete walkway before it
Nov. 20, 2017, in San Francisco. Jose Ines Garcia Zarate had been deported five times and was tion efforts. struck Steinle.
wanted for a sixth deportation when Kate Steinle was fatally shot in the back while walking with During the presidential “He did kill someone. He
her father on the pier. race, then-candidate Don- took the life of a young,
(AP Photo/Eric Risberg) ald Trump cited the killing vibrant, beautiful, cher-
By JANIE HAR pier is coming to a close will resume deliberations as a reason to toughen U.S. ished woman by the name
Associated Press more than two years after Monday after the long holi- immigration policies. Trump of Kate Steinle,” she said.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — setting off a national fire- day weekend. They must later signed an executive Defense attorney Matt
The criminal case against storm over immigration. decide whether Jose Ines order to cut funding from Gonzalez said in his clos-
a Mexican man accused Jurors went home mid- Garcia Zarate was a hap- cities that limit coopera- ing remarks Tuesday that
of killing a woman on a day Wednesday without less homeless man who tion with U.S. immigration he knows it’s difficult to be-
crowded San Francisco reaching a verdict and killed Kate Steinle in a freak authorities, a policy that lieve Garcia Zarate found
an object that turned out
to be a weapon that fired
California: when he picked it up.
But he told jurors that Gar-
Inmate who fled courthouse arrested, 1 at large cia Zarate had no motiva-
tion to kill Steinle and as
awful as her death was,
“nothing you do is going
STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) — but John Bivins escaped, driving, then stopped the McClough and Bivins were to fix that.” He urged jurors,
One of two California in- said highway patrol Officer vehicle and ran inside a being held without bail af- who received the case
mates who escaped from Katzakian. McClough and Walmart where he was de- ter they were accused of Tuesday, to pick apart the
a courthouse two weeks Bivins escaped deputies es- tained, the highway patrol robbing a Verizon store of facts of the case, instead
ago has been captured corting them at a court in said in a statement. $64,000 in merchandise in of swallowing a ludicrous
after a chase but his part- Palo Alto on Nov. 6 by bolt- Bivens then took the wheel February. narrative by the prosecu-
ner got away, the Califor- ing through an emergency and kept driving. Officers Police have said they tied tion that relied on circum-
nia Highway Patrol said exit and running outside to pursued the car and one up the store employees, stantial evidence. Garcia
Wednesday. a waiting car. fired his gun. forced one to open a called the defense’s ar-
Officers in the central city Highway patrol officers in Bivens got away but Katza- safe and were arrested a gument just as implausible
of Stockton arrested Tramel Stockton tried to pull over kian said he could not pro- short time later after a car and told the jury to look at
McClough Tuesday night a car but McClough kept vide more details. chase. q the entire picture.q