So, what turned this guy's head? Apparently the usual: vanity and the pursuit of power.
Before he became one the nation’s most radical prosecutors, Los Angeles County district attorney George Gascón served as the "right arm" to LAPD chief William Bratton in the heyday of broken-windows policing.
From 1987 to 2006, Gascón was as dedicated to a tough-on-crime approach as he was to Bratton, who called his assistant chief "my Patton." His aggressive shift to the left, first as district attorney of San Francisco and now as Los Angeles's top prosecutor, is a far cry from his earlier positions. But the transformation from Bratton acolyte to George Soros-backed prosecutor hasn’t surprised those who knew Gascón during his police days.
"I don’t think Gascón believes any of this stuff," Thomas Marchetti, a former detective and 35-year veteran of the LAPD who served under him, told the Washington Free Beacon. "He’s a chameleon."
"No one trusted him," said former sergeant Steve Meagher, who served 2 of his 33 years in the department under Gascón, describing the future prosecutor as a striver: "It was all about him, all the time."
Like Old Scratch in The Devil and Daniel Webster, Soros just keeps wandering around, collecting souls - most of which turn out to be so small in the first place that they fit in a vest pocket.
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