this forum didn't "ignore it"... remember how fucked up this story was? a lot more than meets the eye IMHO.
** I do believe the family is a-political. IRC, Kate was close with Abby Martin.
Ep. 74 - The False Flag Everyone Ignored - The Peculiar Case of the Kate Steinle MurderIt was the story that ignited the national debate on Sanctuary City policy. A 32-year old San Francisco woman named Kate Steinle shot and killed by an illegal immigrant as she walked along Pier 14 with her dad. The alleged shooter Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, who has since strangely changed his name to Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, was a 7-time felon who had been deported 5 times prior to the shooting. The story was quickly politicized and many of the downright confusing details never saw the light of day. Today that changes as we shed light on the story's uncomfortable details, and illustrate how the murder of Kate Steinle has all the hallmarks of a modern false flag.
you don't forget something like this (more info on previous page):
July 2, 2015: An NBC Bay Area news crew was attacked early Thursday morning while reporting a story in a mugging that injured the photographer, whose camera gear was also stolen. A second station was also robbed of its gear.
The brazen attack occurred just before 6 a.m. at Pier 14 in San Francisco, where the reporter and photographer – along with several other news stations – were covering a story about a woman who had been shot to death there the night before. NBC Bay Area is not identifying any victims of the attack.
As the two were about to go on air, a man pulled up to the curb in a black four-door BMW, approached the photographer and pistol-whipped him with a gun then shoved him to the ground, the photographer and reporter said. The man then grabbed the photographer's camera gear, and as he was struggling to get it inside his getaway car, returned to pistol whip the photographer again, the news crew reported.
Pier-slaying defendant came to S.F. at sheriff’s requesthttp://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Lee-slams-Mirkarimi-for-not-talking-to-6373929.php?cmpid=twitter-tabletSan Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has deflected blame in the release of a Mexican national now facing murder charges in the Pier 14 slaying by demanding to know why federal authorities returned him to San Francisco to face a 20-year-old marijuana charge in the first place.
The answer, it turns out, is that the Sheriff’s Department asked federal officials to do so.
Mirkarimi’s agency requested custody of Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez as he was completing a 46-month stint in federal prison in March in San Bernardino County, according to a Sheriff’s Department letter obtained by The Chronicle. Lopez-Sanchez had been deported five times to Mexico and had been imprisoned for illegally re-entering the U.S.
Ranger Whose Gun Was Used In Steinle Slaying Was Promotedhttp://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/10/20/ranger-whose-gun-used-in-steinle-slaying-was-promoted/SAN FRANCISCO (AP/CBS SF) — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management promoted a ranger months after his stolen gun turned up in the hands of a Mexican man accused of using it to kill a woman on a San Francisco pier, according to media reports.
KQED News said an internal BLM email thread it obtained shows that Ranger John Woychowski was promoted to a supervisory position five months after Kate Steinle’s July 2015 death.
Woychowski had reported that the gun was stolen from the backseat of his car a few days before Steinle’s killing. The man accused of killing Steinle, Jose Ines Garcia-Zarate, said the gun was wrapped in T-shirt he found under a bench, and it went off accidentally.
"wrapped in a T-shirt"??
Feds Balk at Subpoena for Ranger’s Testimony in Kathryn Steinle Murder Casehttps://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/14/feds-balk-at-subpoena-for-rangers-testimony-in-kathryn-steinle-murder-case/eAn attorney for the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management is arguing that the federal government must give its permission for a ranger whose stolen gun was used to kill Kathryn Steinle to testify in an upcoming murder trial.
And that’s unlikely.
But the legal reasoning offered in a Thursday letter to defense attorneys for Juan Francisco Lopez Sanchez, who is accused of killing Steinle, appears to contradict itself.
Kathryn Steinle’s slaying has garnered national attention, driven largely by politicians and pundits pushing for harsher immigration policies. Lopez Sanchez is a Mexican national with a long history of deportations and illegal re-entries in the U.S.
But his defense attorneys argue that Lopez Sanchez has no history of violent crime or theft, and he simply picked up an object wrapped in cloth that he found on San Francisco’s Pier 14. They say Steinle’s death was an accident: Woychowski’s lost Sig Sauer pistol went off in Lopez Sanchez’s hands, the bullet ricocheted off the pier and struck Steinle in the back about 100 feet away.
Woychowski’s testimony is critical to the case, defense attorneys said, and the federal government’s arguments against it don’t apply.
“We’re citing Bureau of Land Management’s own regulations for why the objection that they’re raising doesn’t apply,” said Matt Gonzalez, San Francisco chief deputy public defender and one of Lopez Sanchez’s defense attorneys. “He started the chain of events that put this gun on that pier, in our opinion, and so his relevance is obvious.”
Federal agent describes car break-in that led to the killing of Kate Steinle with stolen duty weaponhttp://www.sfexaminer.com/federal-agent-describes-theft-gun-used-killing-kate-steinle/John Woychowski, a Bureau of Land Management ranger stationed near the border of the U.S. and Mexico, set in motion one of the most controversial killings in San Francisco in recent history, according to defense attorney Matt Gonzalez, when he parked his luxury sports utility vehicle along The Embarcadero the night of June 27, 2015.
Woychowski testified Thursday that he and his family had stopped in San Francisco on a trip up the California coast when someone busted into two rear windows of his car, stealing a fully loaded handgun he stashed in a backpack underneath the driver’s seat.
“My fiance yelled out, ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe this,’” Woychowski said in court, describing the moment he realized his car was burglarized. “I saw the back seat on the passenger’s side was smashed out.”
Four days later, prosecutors say an undocumented immigrant named Jose Ines Garcia Zarate fired the stolen handgun on Pier 14. The bullet ricocheted off the ground and struck 32-year-old Kate Steinle in the lower back, sparking a national debate on immigration.
“Whether or not somebody bears some responsibility is different than whether or not somebody bears criminal responsibility,” Gonzalez told reporters. “There’s no question that he acted negligently and he triggered a course of events that led to the death of Kate Steinle.”
Word of the killing spread all the way to President Donald Trump, who used Steinle’s death to paint undocumented Mexican immigrants as criminals during his presidential campaign.
The testimony of Woychowski on Thursday offered new details into the auto burglary that defense attorneys say started it all.
Two federal attorneys appeared in court to support Woychowski and deputies hid him from the media when he exited the courtroom.
“I’ve never seen a witness this protected,” Gonzalez told reporters outside the courtroom.