Assemblyman Mike Feuer (Dist. 42) and Assemblyman Mike Gatto (Dist. 43)
It isn't always easy being the first one to stand up for a cause, especially one so clouded by layers of external complexity, but we are grateful to someone who has shown tremendous fearlessness, leadership and the ability to get things done for taking the time to read and learn more about Zac and his life, as well as about his death and the circumstances surrounding it:
Thank you to Assemblyman Mike Gatto of District 43 for being the first elected official to join the In Memory of Zac Champommier Facebook page.
We here at the blog are very happy and thankful that he did. Here's a link to Assemblyman Gatto's Facebook page. Please stop by his page and thank him personally. Tell him what a great kid Zac was and that we need more help from people like him to make sure that this can never happen to another person, another family, another community, ever again.
Who's next, L.A.? Team Zac would love all of our elected officials to read more about Zac's story and join our Facebook group.
1 comment:
Let's play Good Cop, Bad Cop.
This blog page is the good cop.
You heap praise and thanks upon a state assemblymember for having signed on as a Facebook friend of In Loving Memory of Z.C.
You assume that Gatto is now informed about the circumstances surrounding the shooting of Zac.
You believe that positive inducements are effective tactics for gaining ground with politicians.
That's fine and dandy. You are the good cop. And for this scheme to work - you need to also have the bad cop.
The bad cop doesn't smile. He is perpetualy in a bad mood ready to chew someone out in a blink.
The bad cop tells Assemblyman Gatto
to wipe the smile off his face because he has blood on his hands.
Awareness of Zac's situation means that Gatto will not be able to escape being held accountable for a continued delay in taking action.
The sheriff's ability to hide identities behind the cover of California law is certainly a component of his approach in this matter.
We can't yet tell if it may have even contributed to a mindset of immunity from consequences. Thus allowing brutal tendencies to be freed from their last remaining restraints.
But the law as it stands may have allowed just that.
Because the California law which protects individual identities of certain police is tragically and fatally flawed.
The law seeks to impose restrictions on identity in order to protect law enforcement from retaliation by unscrupulous criminal elements, yet it fails to include any mechanism for safeguarding the people from unscrupulous elements within law enforcement who would abuse their protection in order to extend their own criminal practices.
Now that you been put on notice Mr. Gatto - we expect you to get to work without delay to address and correct the danger which the legislature has unleashed in creating a system vulnerable to abuse without any means of audit or review.
Under the current rules, it is possible that the person from the sheriff dept. who is assigned as the contact to Zac's mom could be the very same person who shot and killed Zac.
There would be no way for anyone - not even Assemblymember Gatto, to ever find out.
Mr. Gatto is just a lame punk politician.
He needs to start fixing the problem before something else happens and "gross negligence contributing to homicide" gets added to his resume.
You may find my tone quite offensive.
I am the bad cop.
Every good cop needs to have one.
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