LOS ANGELES – Incumbent Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey conceded the election race Friday morning to former Los Angeles Police Department assistant chief and former San Francisco DA George Gascón.
Lacey announced her decision in a press conference. According to the most recent preliminary results that were released by the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder’s office, Gascon led by 53.7% of the vote to Lacey’s 46.2% as of late Thursday afternoon, giving him a lead of 229,022 votes.
Lacey’s term heading the nation’s largest local prosecutor’s office was plagued with anger by LGBTQ Black activists over what they viewed as he inept handling of the investigation into the deaths of two Black men in West Hollywood at the hands of what
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