{"id":113890,"date":"2024-10-14T02:54:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T19:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=113890"},"modified":"2024-10-14T02:54:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T19:54:51","slug":"as-harris-makes-case-for-presidency-her-record-as-prosecutor-draws-fresh-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=113890","title":{"rendered":"As Harris makes case for Presidency, her record as prosecutor draws fresh scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-editable=\"content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-reorderable=\"content\">\n<p>\n    <cite class=\"source__cite\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__location\" data-editable=\"location\"\/><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__text\" data-editable=\"source\">CNN<\/span><br \/>\n        \u00a0\u2014\u00a0<br \/>\n    <\/cite>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnphst000ma2qi8rpudalz@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            When Kamala Harris famously refused to seek the death penalty against a young gang member accused of killing a cop\u202ftwo decades ago, she said then\u202fthat her opposition to capital punishment was well-reasoned and absolute.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw00063b6mf9pe2d6e@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Even under pressure from the late Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who received a standing ovation when she called for the death penalty at the officer\u2019s funeral, Harris, then 39, stood strong.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw00073b6mzwftpt4v@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cFor those who want this defendant put to death, let me say simply that there can be no exception to principle,\u201d she wrote in an opinion piece published in the San Francisco Chronicle in 2004, shortly after being elected the city\u2019s first female district attorney.\n    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/cm1qo0oeg00013b6mpi2rmxyw@published\" class=\"image image__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-name=\"c-GettyImages-1408383316.jpg\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\" data-original-ratio=\"0.7204166666666667\" data-original-height=\"1729\" data-original-width=\"2400\" data-url=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-gettyimages-1408383316.jpg?c=original\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"image__container \" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\">\n       <picture class=\"image__picture\"><source height=\"1729\" width=\"2400\" media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-gettyimages-1408383316.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1729\" width=\"2400\" media=\"(min-width: 960px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-gettyimages-1408383316.jpg?q=w_1015,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1729\" width=\"2400\" media=\"(min-width: 480px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-gettyimages-1408383316.jpg?q=w_1160,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1729\" width=\"2400\" media=\"(max-width: 479px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-gettyimages-1408383316.jpg?q=w_680,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-gettyimages-1408383316.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\" alt=\"In this 2004 photo, then-District Attorney Kamala Harris waits for a proceeding to convene in San Francisco.\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"1729\" width=\"2400\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw00083b6myet892zl@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cI gave my word to the people of San Francisco that I oppose the death penalty,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/opinion\/openforum\/article\/justice-for-officer-espinoza-peace-for-the-city-2789147.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harris wrote<\/a>, \u201cand I will honor that commitment despite the strong emotions evoked by this case.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw00093b6mvearp0th@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Just four years later, however, Harris pushed aside her long-held opposition to capital punishment when she announced plans to run for attorney general of California. She vowed that, if elected, she would \u201cenforce the death penalty as the law dictates.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw000b3b6msxlu71p4@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            As attorney general of California, she advocated for enforcement of a state law under which the parents of chronically truant kids could be thrown in jail. But years later, during her first campaign for president, she expressed regret that some prosecutors had actually done so, saying that \u201cthat was never was the intention\u201d of the law.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw000a3b6mcnr6cdx3@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Her shifting stance on the contentious topic is but one example of how the Democratic presidential nominee has attempted to walk the line between tough-on-crime prosecutor and progressive politician.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw000c3b6mjrtsvvdz@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Following the controversial police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, Harris <a href=\"https:\/\/oag.ca.gov\/news\/press-releases\/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-kicks-first-its-kind-law-enforcement-training\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">launched<\/a> a pilot program requiring field special agents of the California Department of Justice to begin wearing body cameras. She declined, however, to back a far more comprehensive measure favored by police reform advocates that would have provided statewide regulations on the devices.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw000d3b6mdcvam2n6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            About six years later, following the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Harris noted the importance of \u201cindependent investigations\u201d into alleged police misconduct, citing the inherent problem of perceived or real conflicts of interest when such cases are investigated by local prosecutors. As California\u2019s AG, however, she declined to provide that sort of outside scrutiny to several controversial police shootings in the state.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw000e3b6mn63hs2gk@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Her critics have seized on these and other perceived contradictions as evidence that she\u2019s a flip-flopping politician \u2013 \u201ca <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/08\/11\/politics\/video\/sotu-vance-harris-chameleon\">chameleon<\/a>\u201d as Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance has repeatedly called her. But Harris\u2019 supporters see her as an opened-minded leader unafraid to change her thinking when persuaded by evidence.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw000f3b6mgb8pfbqp@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Brendon Woods, who currently serves as the top public defender in Oakland, California, where Harris got her start as a prosecutor, said he has closely watched her career\u2014both as\u202fa prosecutor and as a politician\u2014and seen her change course on issues that matter to him.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw000g3b6mshylzd4y@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cI think people can evolve,\u201d Woods told CNN, \u201cAnd I think that\u2019s what she\u2019s done.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw000h3b6msr0ugxjj@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Asked about some of her shifting stances in a CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/08\/29\/politics\/kamala-harris-tim-walz-cnntv\/index.html\">interview<\/a> in August, Harris said, \u201cmy values have not changed.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/cm1qvfg4100013b6mg4wrlf9t@published\" class=\"image image__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-name=\"c-DSC_1598.jpg\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\" data-original-ratio=\"0.6654166666666667\" data-original-height=\"1597\" data-original-width=\"2400\" data-url=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-dsc-1598.jpg?c=original\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"image__container \" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\">\n       <picture class=\"image__picture\"><source height=\"1597\" width=\"2400\" media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-dsc-1598.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1597\" width=\"2400\" media=\"(min-width: 960px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-dsc-1598.jpg?q=w_1015,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1597\" width=\"2400\" media=\"(min-width: 480px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-dsc-1598.jpg?q=w_1160,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1597\" width=\"2400\" media=\"(max-width: 479px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-dsc-1598.jpg?q=w_680,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-dsc-1598.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\" alt=\"Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Vice President Kamala Harris are interviewed by CNN\u2019s Dana Bash at Kim\u2019s Cafe in Savannah, Georgia, on August 29, 2024. This is the first time Harris has sat with a journalist for an in-depth, on-the-record conversation since President Joe Biden ended his presidential bid in July. \" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"1597\" width=\"2400\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw000i3b6myvjc7llh@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In a statement, James Singer, a spokesperson for the Harris-Walz campaign, said, \u201cThroughout her entire career, Kamala Harris has fought to protect people and hold bad actors accountable. She took on predators, rapists, abusers, fraudsters, and gangs to get justice for the people and she will continue to fight for justice and freedom as President of the United States.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw000j3b6mz9jy4p6l@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Asked about Harris\u2019 change on the death penalty, a Harris aide said that the \u201crole of attorney general is different from that of district attorney,\u201d and added that Harris followed state law as AG.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw000k3b6m1d5yfmod@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The long-standing problem of racial inequities in the criminal justice system is among the issues that prompted Harris to become a prosecutor in the first place.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw000l3b6mv0eqd0xq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cI grew up knowing about the disparities, inequities, and unfairness in the criminal justice system,\u201d Harris said during a 2019 town hall\u202fhosted\u202fby MSNBC. \u201cWhat I said to my family and friends is look, if we\u2019re going to reform these systems, we should also be on the inside where the decisions are being made. And that\u2019s why I chose to do the work I did. And I am proud of the work that I did.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw000m3b6mfid4pf2s@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            As a prosecutor, Harris adopted what she called a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/01\/16\/politics\/kamala-harris-2020-bid-personal\/index.html\">smart on crime<\/a>\u201d approach to law enforcement. It included the\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/interactive\/2017\/politics\/state\/kamala-harris-rips-up-the-script\/\">launch<\/a>\u202fof a program that sought to steer non-violent offenders toward job training and away from prison, and the\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/oag.ca.gov\/news\/press-releases\/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-launches-first-its-kind-criminal-justice-open\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">release<\/a> of statewide criminal justice data in an effort to enhance government accountability.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw000n3b6m5u09uje2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            One of Harris\u2019 boldest moves as district attorney was to launch a program aimed at preventing young people from ending up in jail or prison by making sure they stayed in school.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw000o3b6m2yvg9dq2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cI believe a child going without an education is tantamount to a crime,\u201d she said in a speech at San Francisco\u2019s Commonwealth Club in 2010. \u201cSo I decided I was going to start prosecuting parents for truancy.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw000p3b6m8xh8c7c7@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThis was a little controversial in San Francisco,\u201d she said, laughing, \u201cand frankly my staff went bananas.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw000q3b6mec34wp3a@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            She wrote in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/education\/article\/Truancy-costs-us-all-3213456.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">op-ed<\/a> around that time that she had \u201cprosecuted 20 parents of young children for truancy\u201d and that the crime carried a potential sentence of up to a year in jail.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw000r3b6m6h6pp48v@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            She never put anyone in jail, Harris would later say, but her program became the\u202fbasis\u202fof a\u202fbill\u202fthat made it a criminal misdemeanor for parents to let their kindergarten-through-eighth-grade children miss 10% or more of class without valid excuses. Those convicted\u202fare\u202fpunishable by a fine not exceeding $2,000, or by \u201cimprisonment in a county jail for a period not exceeding one year.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw000s3b6m4bz247b7@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Harris testified about the issue to the state senate. She\u202fsaid, \u201cThrough the power of the prosecutor\u2019s office we have an incredible carrot and stick. The carrot of course being to hopefully encourage good behaviors. And the stick outlining what will be punishment or severe consequences when those good behaviors \u2026 are not followed.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw000t3b6mqcdc9yr4@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            After the bill\u202fpassed\u202fin 2010,\u202fsome\u202fdistrict attorneys took action.\u202fDozens of parents have since been arrested or even jailed by other prosecutors for allegedly allowing their children to miss too many classes, according to\u202flocal\u202fgovernment\u202fpress releases.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw000u3b6mnisoaexo@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Among those arrested were\u202fAyman Haddadin\u202fand his wife, Alice, who live in Orange County, south of Los Angeles.\u202fThe couple was accused by local prosecutors in 2011 of allowing their middle-school-age child to accumulate 12 unexcused absences in a school year, failing to respond to notices or attend a meeting about the issue and permitting absences in prior years.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw000v3b6m5e9kzyl2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In a recent interview with CNN, Ayman Haddadin said his son\u202fhad struggled with chronic allergies that were often exacerbated at school, so he racked up absences that he believes should have been excused.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw000w3b6mlortug62@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cIf he can\u2019t breathe,\u201d he said of his son, \u201che can\u2019t function.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw000x3b6m5b80noc3@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Even though his family had sought to discuss the issue with school administrators, Haddadin told CNN, police showed up at his home just after dawn and took him and his wife, who was still in her pajamas, into custody. They were hauled off in handcuffs, he said,\u202fand details of their arrest were spotlighted in local media reports.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw000y3b6m5h3zisbb@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The spectacle, he said, affected his whole family.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw000z3b6m7dweu8sv@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cI remember being absolutely terrified,\u201d his now-adult son, Connor Haddadin, who had accumulated the absences, said of his parents\u2019 arrests. \u201cIt was extremely wrong and traumatic.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw00103b6mdui2qm55@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Ayman Haddadin said the case was ultimately dismissed. A spokesperson for the Orange County District Attorney\u2019s office said the case against the Haddadins is sealed and declined further comment.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw00113b6mh7fqwmy9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Another parent caught up in the May 2011 truancy sweep in Orange County said she was a single mom working two jobs to support her five kids.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw00123b6m35ab922u@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Following her arrest, during which a photo of her in handcuffs was publicized in local media, she said she lost one of her jobs working as a line cook at a restaurant and her family was shunned by the community.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw00133b6muuhoegzs@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThere has to be another way,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s inhumane.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw00143b6m6bjwkbuf@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Harris, who for years had advocated on behalf of prosecutors getting involved in truancy cases, has since expressed regret about the \u201cunintended consequence\u201d of parents being prosecuted and jailed, \u201cbecause that was never the intention.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw00153b6mfb1rvbxi@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            But Alice Haddadin questioned those statements from Harris. \u201cI don\u2019t think you can consider that an unintended consequence because she created the law,\u201d she told CNN.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw00173b6mz8587bzk@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            As attorney general of California, Harris had attained the ultimate position for changing the state\u2019s criminal justice system from within, as she had set out to do as a young lawyer.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw00183b6mr8x23c87@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            She was California\u2019 s \u201ctop cop\u201d and had a wide purview to set policy and right wrongs in the manner she saw fit.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw00193b6mz16vrhjq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            On the campaign trail as a presidential candidate, she routinely touts her record as California\u2019s top prosecutor, including the way she says she\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/08\/19\/politics\/kamala-harris-speech-transcript\/index.html\">took on<\/a>\u202fbig banks that foreclosed on people\u2019s homes and\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/08\/29\/politics\/harris-walz-interview-read-transcript\/index.html\">prosecuted<\/a>\u202fMexican drug cartels and other transnational criminal organizations.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw001a3b6mvutua6np@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            But she was also faulted by critics\u2014some of whom had once been her supporters\u2014for not doing enough during her time as AG.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw001b3b6mbguijk4l@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In 2015, following the widespread civil unrest in the wake of the police killing of Brown in Ferguson, Missouri the previous summer, Harris began requiring special agents working for the state Department of Justice to wear body cameras when on duty.\n    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/cm1qvjiyd00033b6mznedqho0@published\" class=\"image image__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-name=\"c-AP223900784580.jpg\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\" data-original-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\" data-original-height=\"1600\" data-original-width=\"2400\" data-url=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-ap223900784580.jpg?c=original\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"image__container \" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\">\n       <picture class=\"image__picture\"><source height=\"1600\" width=\"2400\" media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-ap223900784580.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1600\" width=\"2400\" media=\"(min-width: 960px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-ap223900784580.jpg?q=w_1015,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1600\" width=\"2400\" media=\"(min-width: 480px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-ap223900784580.jpg?q=w_1160,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1600\" width=\"2400\" media=\"(max-width: 479px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-ap223900784580.jpg?q=w_680,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-ap223900784580.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\" alt=\"This January 2014 file photo shows a Los Angeles police officer wearing a body camera during a demonstration for media.\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"1600\" width=\"2400\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw001c3b6mz4b9fdfj@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Harris, however, declined to support a bill that would have imposed statewide regulations impacting throughout the Golden State.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw001d3b6mvtqlmh0q@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Harris balked at the aim of the proposed law, warning against a \u201cone-size-fits-all\u201d regulation.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw001e3b6mi5f0ur76@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Her cautious stance on the issue frustrated many advocates of criminal justice reform, including those who expressed support for Harris on other issues.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw001f3b6mdymje2kc@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Bryce Peterson, a lecturer at John Jay College of Criminal Justice who has studied police body-cam policy and implementation across the country, said Harris declining to back the legislation may have been a missed opportunity for leadership on the issue.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw001g3b6mdiasecio@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cYou\u2019re never going to get police officers to change or agencies to change, unless they\u2019re spurred in one way or another,\u201d he said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw001h3b6mbpwf91xi@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Another area that has drawn scrutiny was Harris\u2019 apparent resistance to using the broad powers of the AG\u2019s office to conduct independent probes into fatal police shootings.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw001i3b6mia42yuhk@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            As AG, Harris declined to support a 2015 bill by Democratic Assemblyman\u00a0Kevin McCarty from Sacramento that would have required the state to conduct such probes, as opposed to county prosecutors who may appear biased due to their close working relationship with local police.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw001j3b6mzrmjqefs@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThe African American and civil rights community have been disappointed that (Harris) hasn\u2019t come out stronger on this,\u201d McCarty, a member of California\u2019s Legislative Black Caucus, told the Los Angeles Times in 2016.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw001k3b6mmo5mp3xq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Aside from not backing the bill, Harris declined to investigate controversial fatal police shootings in Los Angeles, Anaheim and her former hometown of San Francisco, in which local officials declined to file charges against officers. The suspects in Los Angeles and Anaheim were unarmed; the man killed in San Francisco had a knife.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw001l3b6maxdf383u@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In the immediate aftermath of the shooting in Anaheim, the city\u2019s then-mayor, Tom Tait, called on Harris to conduct an independent probe during a press conference in which scores of protestors packed the lobby of the Anaheim Police Department.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw001m3b6mmu2067wj@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cI believed we needed an independent outside investigation to get to the truth of what happened,\u201d Tait told CNN in September. \u201cI thought this would have helped provide credibility and public trust in our justice system.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw001n3b6m8fmno08x@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Harris opted not to get involved, he said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw001o3b6miodtoo7j@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            McCarty told CNN that, despite the disappointment he voiced in 2016, Harris later helped shape a subsequent law mandating the attorney general\u2019s involvement in investigating fatal police shootings of unarmed suspects.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw001p3b6m4okhhuyi@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cI applaud Kamala Harris for helping lay the foundation to make this a reality,\u201d he said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw001q3b6mnblb776o@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Years later, after being elected to the US Senate and launching her first campaign for president, Harris noted the importance of the sort of \u201cindependent investigations\u201d she had declined to provide as attorney general.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw001r3b6m8wiukqy3@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            She did so in the wake of yet another high-profile police killing \u2013 one that would ignite a global movement \u2013 that of Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw001s3b6mxs9hbs2s@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Speaking to colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Harris asked for their support in passing a new federal law, one that would help ensure independent oversight in cases in which local prosecutors have a perceived or real conflict of interest with investigating the officers in question.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qnutlw001t3b6mxvreac0u@published\" data-editable=\"text\" 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