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MARTIN CIZMAR\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>17 MAR 2018<\/a><\/p>\n

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Alameda County prosecutor Nancy O’Malley\/Screenshot<\/div>\n
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In March 2017, a group of men\u00a0<\/span>wearing street clothes and carrying AR-15s<\/a>ambushed a car full of teenagers at an apartment complex in Hayward, a suburb of San Francisco. The driver of the car thought he was being robbed, and tried to drive away. The men opened fire with semi-automatic rifles, killing Elena Mondragon, a pregnant 16-year-old who was in the passenger seat.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The men who fired the shots were undercover police officers. They claimed they fired in self-defense, though the car was driving away from them and they did not turned on their body cameras. The officers were never charged in the shooting, a decision made by Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O\u2019Malley.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

A new report from the\u00a0East Bay Express<\/em>\u00a0calls O\u2019Malley\u2019s motives\u00a0by pointing out that she received a $10,000 campaign donation<\/a>\u00a0from the police union just before clearing the officers in the killing. The president of the police union, Sgt. Jeremy Miskella, was one of the cops who shot Mondragon. The $10,000 donation was the largest O\u2019Malley\u2019s received for her current race.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Malley says she did nothing wrong.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a law enforcement job and we work with the police. As I said before, when police do something that is against the law, they either get fired or they get prosecuted,\u201d she told the paper.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0O\u2019Malley will face a competitor in her re-election race, civil rights attorney Pamela Price. Price called the revelations disturbing.<\/span>\u201cThere\u2019s an actual conflict and then there\u2019s the appearance of impropriety,\u201d said Price. \u201cAnd I will say to you when we have a district attorney that accepts $10,000 from the Fremont Police Officers Association and then clears the Fremont police officers of killing an unarmed 16-year-old child in a car, that\u2019s the appearance of impropriety.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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