Ken from San Diego County

Governor Gavin Newsom granted early release to thousands of prisoners because he was more concerned about protecting criminals from COVID-19 than protecting the public from the criminals.  One of those prisoners, Martin Alvarez Jr., was arrested and charged with murdering Michael Wagley on August 16.  Alvarez had just been released early from prison 17 days before the fatal stabbing.

The murder occurred in my neighborhood.  I witnessed paramedics performing chest compressions on Wagley’s dead body on the sidewalk.  There was blood everywhere.  Onlookers were screaming.  Wagley was homeless and had no one to help him, no one to speak up for him.  So I am speaking up.  Californians need to know that when the governor is not dining at posh restaurants with lobbyists in violation of his own stay-at-home order, he is releasing violent criminals into our neighborhoods.

Gavin Newsom, you have betrayed our trust.  By now the blood of Michael Wagley has been washed from the sidewalk, but he is not forgotten.