An illegal Mexican immigrant on trial for the murder of a San Francisco woman has been found not guilty. The death of Kate Steinle figured prominently in the debate on immigration, with President Donald Trump referencing it as an argument for a crackdown.
On Thursday afternoon, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, 45, was found not guilty of murdering Steinle, 32. Zarate, previously identified as Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, admitted to firing a single shot from a .40 caliber Sig Sauer at Steinle as she walked with her father on a San Francisco pier on July 1, 2015. He claimed he fired accidentally.
Tonight, Identity Evropa members paid a visit to the site of #KateSteinle‘s murder to honor her memory.
The acquittal of her murderer – a man who should have never stepped foot in America to begin with – is an indictment of not only San Francisco, but our country overall. pic.twitter.com/g9bFAfPhWs
— IDENTITY EVROPA (@IdentityEvropa) December 1, 2017
President Donald Trump tweeted Thursday evening that the verdict was “disgraceful.”
“No wonder the people of our Country are so angry with Illegal Immigration,” Trump added.
A disgraceful verdict in the Kate Steinle case! No wonder the people of our Country are so angry with Illegal Immigration.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 1, 2017
Defense attorneys successfully argued that Garcia Zarate has no history of violence and that the shooting was an accident. They said that Garcia Zarate found the handgun…