George Gascón blasted by mom of LA deputy killed in ambush

The grieving mother of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy killed while he sat in his patrol car on Sept. 16 is outraged woke LA County District Attorney George Gascón will not seek the death penalty against the shooter.

Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer, 30, was shot on Sept. 16 as he was stopped at a red light just outside the Palmdale Sheriff’s Station.

Authorities claimed the shooter, Cataneo Salazar, had stalked the deputy as he left the station at about 6 p.m. and got in his patrol car.

A tearful Kim Clinkunbroomer told ABC News her son did not have a chance against the shooter and was shocked by Gascón’s decision, announced during a press conference on Sept. 20, not be seek the death penalty.

“It just seems that the district attorney wants to spare a life, when [the suspect] didn’t spare my son’s life — he executed my son,” Kim Clinkunbroomer said in an interview with ABC.

“You can’t do this to families. We need to defend our law enforcement officers, and that’s not — that’s a disgrace.”

LA County Sheriff Robert Luna said he hoped for “nothing less than the maximum punishment available under the law,” at the press conference but Gascon felt differently.

He said: “If I thought that seeking the death penalty was going to bring Ryan back to us, I would seek it without any reservation … But it won’t.”

Kim was outraged by the statement, and had scathing words for the controversial DA.

“How dare you, on national TV, tell me you’re not seeking the death penalty because it won’t bring my son back? My son’s not coming back, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do your job,” she added to ABC.

“I truly hope the people of Los Angeles realize what this district attorney is not doing for us. And I hope when the election comes next, they really think hard about that bubble they fill in,” she said.

Gascón’s decision has drawn ire from other top prosecutors in the state, including Orange County DA Todd Spitzer.

Spitzer said Gascón has already decided “the deputy’s death wasn’t worth going through a special circumstances analysis,” which is usually done whether a suspect should receive the death penalty or life without parole.

“The death penalty still exists in Californi a— no matter how much George Gascón and Gov. Gavin Newsom want to pretend it doesn’t,” Spitzer said in a statement obtained by The Post.

“So what was the point? There is not a law on the books that can reincarnate the dead. They know that Ryan is never coming home.

“And now Deputy Clinkunbroomer’s family — and every law enforcement officer in Los Angeles — knows the harsh reality that George Gascón, the person the people of Los Angeles County elected to protect public safety, refuses to seek justice for the men and women who are sworn to protect us all.”

Salazar, 29, has been charged with murder with special circumstance.

His attorney, George Rosenstock, entered a plea of not guilty and a dual plea of not guilty by reason of insanity on his behalf during his arraignment last week.

The perp’s mother, Marle Salazar, told the Los Angeles Times that her son had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia about five years ago.

Clinkunbroomer proposed to his girlfriend, pediatric ICU nurse Brittany Lindsey, just four days before he was gunned down.

“He was just the most thoughtful, most respectful, loving, caring person I’ve ever met in my life,” Lindsey told ABC News. “I’m just so grateful to have met and loved him.”

“Every day that he went to work, I prayed for him. I prayed that he’d just come home safe. A lot of nights I couldn’t sleep. I would just watch the clock waiting for him to come home.”

Clinkunbroomer transferred to the Palmdale station in July 2018. He was a third-generation LASD member, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather.