Gascon Dropped Trainwrecking Charges Against BLM Protesters Despite Video Evidence, Retaliated Against DDA Opposing Him

Back on November 15, 2020, a group of Black Lives Matter activists protested at Compton City Hall over the death of Andres Guardado, who was shot and killed by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputies during the summer of 2020. After nearly six months of dealing with peaceful-protests-turned-violent, and two months after two of their deputies were ambushed, shot, and left for dead just 0.2 miles from that location, LASD deputies were understandably on heightened alert and took extra precautions to protect themselves, local businesses, and innocent bystanders. The deputies were “out in riot gear” and had “set up coil barricades throughout the area. At least two protesters, Jasmine Lomax and Krizia Berg, were “irked at the Sheriff’s Department’s presence,” according to the LA Times, and admitted to performing an “act of protest” of their own.