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DA O'Malley Took $10K From Fremont Police Union Before Clearing Fremont Cops in Killing of Pregnant
DA O’Malley Took $10K From Fremont Police Union Before Clearing Fremont Cops in Killing of Pregnant TeenAlameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley accepted a $10,000 campaign donation from the Fremont police union just months before her office cleared Fremont police officers of any wrongdoing in the fatal shooting of pregnant teen, Elena Mondragon. In addition, the president of the Fremont police union — Sgt. Jeremy Miskella — is one of the cops that shot Mondragon to death one year ago and was subsequently cleared by O’Malley’s office.
At a candidate’s forum in Alameda on Wednesday, O’Malley’s competitor in the June election for district attorney — civil rights attorney Pamela Price — called O’Malley’s actions “disturbing.”
"There's an actual conflict and then there's the appearance of impropriety," said Price. "And I will say to you when we have a district attorney that accepts $10,000 from the Fremont Police Officers Association and then clears the Fremont police officers of killing an unarmed 16-year-old child in a car, that's the appearance of impropriety."
O'Malley defended her campaign’s acceptance of the large contribution by the Fremont Police Officer’s Association and denied that it diminishes her office's ability to remain unbiased in cases involving law enforcement. "The police and people in the community that care about public safety, that care about stability, that care about leadership, that care about the truth and that when putting out information, that it is accurate information, those are the people who are supporting me and have given me contributions," said O'Malley.
"This is a law enforcement job and we work with the police. As I said before, when police do something that is against the law, they either get fired or they get prosecuted."
Read more: https://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2018/03/16/da-omalley-took-10k-from-fremont-police-union-before-clearing-fremont-cops-in-killing-of-pregnant-teen
