Pamela Price, the progressive prosecutor of Alameda County, California, near San Francisco, is facing protests and a call for her recall amid a storm of criticism for her response to a family whose toddler was murdered in a suspected gang shooting on a public highway.
An informal Change.org petition demanding her recall has garnered more than 14,000 signatures. It takes issue with a handful of other cases in which the new left-wing district attorney has allegedly gone soft on criminals.
In one, her office offered a 15-year plea deal to a man accused of three murders.
“Once we get enough signatures we will start the formal recall process,” the organizers wrote. Â
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Price drew backlash last month after telling supporters of the Wu family, who lost their toddler son Jasper in a gang-related shootout on Interstate 880, that her office was looking into a way to punish the suspects without prison time.
Price’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital. In a video she posted last week, the DA called her critics racist and said her office was “still reviewing” Jasper’s case.
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One-year-old Jasper Wu died in the crossfire of a gang shootout on Interstate 880 in 2021. Of the four suspects, three were charged with murder, and the other died in another shootout before he could face a judge.
“There’s nothing that our justice system can do that will relieve or remove the pain of losing their child,” Price, who took office in January, said in a statement. “Nothing.”
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In the video posted to the DA’s website last week, Price said she met with Jasper’s parents and told them that the suspects “are charged with very serious crimes, and they will be held accountable.”
“We have not made any…
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