Push to oust L.A. city attorney grows as challenger gains support of D.A., police union
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Nathan Hochman and the union that represents rank-and-file police officers offered a stinging rebuke of embattled City Atty.Hydee Feldstein Soto on Tuesday morning while endorsing one of her challengers in the upcoming election, county prosecutor John McKinney.Hochman said he analyzed the field and decided the city attorney’s office “desperately needed” an experienced litigator like McKinney, who has been a prosecutor for 28 years and handled some of the city’s highest-profile trials.
“What we need in the L.A.city attorney’s office is someone who actually has courtroom experience, someone who understands how to win a trial,” Hochman said.
“Someone who has actually not only talked the talk, but walked the walk.”Hochman and leaders from the Los Angeles Police Protective League, the union which represents the majority of LAPD officers, stood shoulder to shoulder in endorsing McKinney.The league recently rescinded its endorsement of Feldstein Soto, who has faced criticism on a wide range of issues since she was elected in 2022.Feldstein Soto‘s office was accused in recent weeks of failing to properly inform other city officials about a hack of confidential files that saw 337,000 documents, videos and photographs leaked online.
The documents amount to millions of pages, and appear to mostly come from civil lawsuits against the city that have been resolved in court.The files were not secured by a password, according to sources who spoke previously with The Times and requested anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation.The city attorney’s office previously responded to questions from The Times by referring to a public report issued April 17, which said a preliminary investigation indicated that “the incident was contained to that third-party environment, and that no other City applications, sy...