Commentary: The right's new Willie Horton
by Alexander Nazaryan, Los Angeles Times
Dec 06, 2017
4 minutes
The acquittal of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate in a San Francisco courtroom on Thursday will bring joy to few and pain to many. That's the trouble with the rule of law: It doesn't always offer comfort or satisfaction. When dispensed properly, justice is an utterly dispassionate force.
On a summer evening in 2015, Garcia Zarate, a homeless immigrant living in the country illegally, unwrapped a cloth object under a bench on a San Francisco pier. Inside the cloth was a gun that had been stolen days before.
Some moments after Garcia Zarate's inauspicious discovery, a 32-year-old woman who had been walking along the pier lay dying in her father's arms. "Help me, dad," Kathryn
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