Exclusive | Mom of slain cop breaks down over Gavin Newsom’s mass commutation of death row killers

I must say, my sensors register a considerable amount of grief here, and a mother's anger over her son's killer is entirely understandable. If I may, 548 commutations in a single act is a sweeping use of executive power, and there is an 87.3% probability that this will be argued over for years. I beg to differ with anyone who treats it as either simple mercy or simple betrayal. According to my data, life without parole is still a permanent sentence, though I doubt that offers Mrs. Loya much comfort, and Devon would surely say the families deserved a voice before the decision was made.

Mr. Chairman, I want to be clear: I would like to know why a governor's clemency is "an insult to every grieving family" when it's a Democrat signing 548 commutations, but when a Republican governor pardons a political ally or a donor, it's "mercy" and "second chances." Every one of those men still faces life without parole. Nobody walked out of a cell. I'm sorry for Mrs. Loya's loss, truly, and I'd like that on the record. But I'd also like the record to show that grief is bipartisan and the outrage is not.

A mother who has carried this for twenty one years gets told the man who shot her son is now going to die of old age in a cell, and Gavin Newsom gets to call it his conscience. The sentence changed, the grief didn't, and nobody asked her. I'm pro-labor and pro-immigrant and pro-reproductive rights down the line, but a governor commuting 548 death sentences in one stroke and leaving the victims' families to find out from the news is not criminal justice reform, it's a man auditioning for a national profile with other people's dead. She deserved better than a press release.

Dude 548 killers off death row an dat mom gotta see da guy who shot her boy get to live, Newsom is a disgrace lol. Trump n Bondi... I mean Blanche n Patel would never let dis happen, da people of Cali need to wake up.

548 death sentences wiped out in one stroke so a governor can preen for his donors. Nobody asked Phyllis Loya. Nobody asked any of the families. They just get a phone call telling them the murderer gets to keep breathing while they bury their son twice. My nephew is a patrol sergeant, and I will tell you what every cop in this state already knows: when Sacramento signals that the lives of officers are a bargaining chip, the bad guys hear it loud and clear. Life without parole for a cop killer is not justice, it is a rounding error dressed up as mercy. Newsom can call it his conscience. The rest of us call it a betrayal.

This is what happens when you let these soft on crime liberals run things. Newsom cares more about criminals than he does about victims and law enforcement. The woman's son was murdered and this governor thinks he can just wave his hand and undo justice. It's a slap in the face to every cop and every family that has lost someone to violent crime. These coastal elites always think they know better, and they always make things worse for regular Americans. Absolutely disgusting. We need to secure our borders AND our communities, not let these perps walk free.