Family of Kate Steinle files lawsuit against federal agencies and sanctuary city loving former SF sheriff

Doug P. | 9:37 AM on May 28, 2016

Last summer, a man in the U.S. illegally who had been deported five times admitted to killing Kathryn Steinle at a popular San Francisco tourist spot, but claimed the shooting was an accident. The sheriff behind the release of Francisco Sanchez, a proponent of sanctuary cities who referred to himself as “the most progressive sheriff in America,” lost his re-election bid last November.

The Steinle family is now suing federal agencies as well as the ex-sheriff:

Kate Steinle killing: Family files wrongful-death suit against feds, #SanFrancisco https://t.co/rnRxJeeWm7 pic.twitter.com/zVMsMDt8lK

— Katrina Cameron (@KatCameron91) May 28, 2016

BREAKING: Parents of Kate Steinle file lawsuit over fatal shooting | https://t.co/foK3unEPor pic.twitter.com/IgQD0SvoJx

— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 27, 2016

From Fox News:

Relatives of the woman shot to death on a San Francisco pier last year filed a lawsuit Friday saying the illegal immigrant accused in the killing should have been in custody if not for a series of mistakes by city and federal workers.

The killing of Kate Steinle in July 2015 and the arrest of Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez put San Francisco’s leaders on the defensive as critics and outside politicians called for a change in the city’s sanctuary law. Despite national outrage, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors on Tuesday upheld those protections for people in the country illegally.
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The sheriff at the time of the killing, Ross Mirkarimi, is named in the lawsuit, along with ICE and the Bureau of Land Management.