


GEORGE GASCON (D), LOS ANGELES COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY: The reality is that a punishment-based approach to the work does not serve as well.Īn eye for an eye, it is not the way the government should behave. These two top law enforcement officials continue their battle here over crime and punishment.ĪLEX VILLANUEVA, LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, SHERIFF: If you cannot be counted on to hold people accountable for breaking the rule of law in such a depraved manner, what good is your local district attorney? County sheriff, meantime, has accused the district attorney here, George Gascon, of being soft on crime, of emboldening those who are prone to violence by having what the sheriff calls stupid policies. She died three days later in the hospital. HUNT: Now, on the same day as Kupfer's murder, 70-year-old Sandra Shells, a nurse who was close to retirement, was waiting for a bus at L.A.'s Union Station, when she was randomly attacked and punched by another homeless man. I blame what's endemic in our society right now is that everybody seems to be oriented on giving back rights and bestowing favor on people that rob others of their rights. TODD KUPFER, FATHER OF STABBING VICTIM: I'm not blaming anybody by name, Here is Brianna's father talking to FOX earlier today. He had walked into the front of the store, was there for a couple of minutes, according to the police chief, attacked Kupfer, and then calmly walked away through a back alley. Within hours of arriving there, she had been stabbed to death by a man the police say they believe is homeless. The 24-year-old had gone to work at a part-time job at a high-end furniture store last Thursday. JONATHAN HUNT, FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT: Charles, the murder of Brianna Kupfer was horrific and, apparently, as you just heard the police chief saying there, entirely random. I want to go first Jonathan Hunt, who is live with the very latest in Los Angeles - Jonathan. And now her father's speaking out the FOX. This UCLA grad student was stabbed to death, as you just heard, while working in a Los Angeles furniture store. CHARLES PAYNE, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: So, the search goes on for the suspect.
