Getting actual justice from our law enforcement officials is big news these days. Gang member Michael Christopher Mejia, totally remorseless after killing one police officer and wounding another, wasn’t phased by the life sentence handed down.
Justice, California style
Liberal California’s justice officials wouldn’t dare approve a death penalty, so now the taxpayers will feed, clothe, and shelter a cop killer for the rest of his life, while he continues his organized criminal career from behind bars, like the rest of his cohorts.
In gangland they consider that a promotion.
Mejia’s murder spree began one day in 2017, when he rubbed out a man in Los Angeles who rubbed him the wrong way. Then, the 30-year-old went too far by opening fire “on two Whittier police officers, killing one and wounding the other” later that same morning.
On Wednesday, December 1, he was sentenced on two counts of murder with a few other charges added by the justice department for good measure.
There is not a chance he’ll ever get out on parole they promise. Even though police are unpopular, justice department prosecutors couldn’t ignore the killing of Keith Boyer, “a 53- year-old Whittier police officer who was the first officer in the city killed in the line of duty in 37 years.”
The murder of 47-year-old Roy Torres a few hours earlier didn’t help his defense lawyer any.
Special circumstances
Mejia was also found guilty of attempted murder for the way he gutshot Officer Patrick Hazell.
Even though that’s enough to keep him on ice for a while, the justice department added counts of carjacking and possession of a firearm by a felon for bonus points. Jurors had no problem reaching a decision.
When justice department prosecutors asked jurors to add a finding of “special circumstance,” the twelve stalwart citizens readily agreed that the “murder of a peace officer in the performance of his duties” is especially bad.
They also frowned on “murder for the purpose of avoiding arrest and multiple murders, along with gang and gun allegations.” They would have preferred having him killed and hauled away with the rest of the trash but the system wouldn’t let them.
Before they went away to decide Mejia’s fate, the judge reminded jurors “He executed Officer Boyer and attempted to execute Officer Hazell.” Not only that, “the two officers had pulled up to render aid following a traffic collision in which Mejia was involved shortly after killing Torres in front of two other people.”
Meanwhile, Mejia has not “shown remorse” for his crimes. “He is quite proud of it,” the judge added. At the end of the day, he got as much justice as California is prepared to deliver.
