FRESNO, Calif. — The war of words between California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Fresno County District Attorney Lisa A. Smittcamp was renewed Thursday with the local prosecutor using words like “arrogant” and “defensive” to describe the governor.
The verbal spat between the two erupted after Tuesday’s fatal shooting of Selma Police Officer Gonzalo Carrasco.
Smittcamp blamed the state’s prison reform efforts for allowing Carrasco’s alleged killer, a convicted felon named Nathaniel Dixon, 23, to be free after only serving six months of a five-year sentence.
