In the escalating battle between California officials and President Trump over immigration, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck on Tuesday contested a statement by the president that the LAPD had released an immigrant in the country illegally who then committed a murder.
“They let him go, and he killed somebody,” Trump said during a White House roundtable.
In fact, Beck told the city’s civilian Police Commission, the murder occurred last summer, before the man was arrested in January on suspicion of a minor narcotics violation.
Trump accused the LAPD of releasing the man despite a request from federal immigration officials to detain him for an additional period of time.
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