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The troubled felon accused of almost blinding Olympian Kim Glass in Los Angeles beforehand attacked a prosecutor — who’s blaming woke officers for permitting the “fully predictable and preventable” violence.
Irene Lee was a deputy district lawyer in LA when Semeon Tesfamariam randomly attacked her whereas she was on a espresso break in August 2020.
“He simply got here up behind me and he socked me. I felt like a automotive or bike had hit me and I began stumbling ahead and simply crying,” she told KCAL9.
At the time, Tesfamariam had already “attacked three ladies, two of them with a golf membership and a hammer” — in addition to one other “the place he’d gone after a younger girl with a metallic pipe and struck her quite a few occasions,” the ex-prosecutor told Fox News.
At sentencing in her case, Lee requested the decide, “How many extra ladies does this defendant have to harm for it to matter?,” she instructed Fox.
“As a sufferer, once I spoke on the sentencing, I felt like I wasn’t being heard,” Lee instructed KCAL9 of the decide, who was not recognized within the studies.
“The decide was totally conscious of his historical past — much more aware of it than I’m,” she harassed.
“I consider that there have been sufficient pink flags earlier than the court docket to say, ‘You know what, this man, he can’t be on the market on the streets. He’s a hazard,’” she instructed Fox.
“The writing was on the wall,” she insisted in each interviews.
Current LA DA George Gascon — who’s going through recall efforts over his personal soft-on-crime insurance policies — confirmed that Tesfamariam, who turned 52 on Saturday, was on probation when he was accused of attacking silver medal-winning volleyball participant Glass, 37, on July 8.
He admitted that Tesfamariam had convictions for felony assault, however was free regardless of having “a troubling historical past of attacking apparently random folks with harmful weapons.”
Lee stated her attacker’s freedom to harm other women was proof that “there’s a local weather of preferential therapy for violent offenders over that of law-abiding residents.”
“There’s simply this local weather, this sense, that folks will get off with none actual consequence and that persons are specializing in the violent criminals over the victims who’re being each day victimized,” she instructed Fox.
“I consider that Kim’s assault was fully predictable and preventable. This shouldn’t have occurred to her,” she stated of the athlete-turned-model attacked with a 10-inch metallic bolt.
Glass initially feared she’d been blinded — and Lee steered it might have been even worse than that.
“By the grace of God, Kim is alive and therapeutic, however I simply can’t think about if he bashed her head in and she or he died. It could be simply one other homicide in downtown LA,” she instructed KCAL9.
“I really feel like that is fully preventable.”
