Actual Justice Warrior · Sean Fitzgerald
Victim's Family SUES California For Protecting Homeless Murderer
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The family's attorney argues the city is liable because it knew the parking lot was dangerous with 675 calls in four years but still invited people to use it.
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A grim public-safety failure becomes a clear, unsparing argument about responsibility and legal accountability.
The episode turns a California family lawsuit into a hard argument about what cities owe people when danger is left in place. It stays close to the facts: Reynaldo LaFonce was stabbed to death outside the city library, the attacker had been arrested and convicted 28 times, and…
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You want the rawest read on a deadly Downey failure and the $40 million lawsuit that followed, after Reynaldo LaFonce was stabbed outside the city library.
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