A man who was wrongfully convicted of murder after being arrested as a 16-year-old is running for Congress, hoping to unseat Rep. Mike Garcia and flip the district blue to help Democrats take back the House in 2024.
Franky Carrillo, who spent 20 years in jail, embraces his grandmother after being released in 2011. Image: Michael Robinson Chavez/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
A man who was wrongfully convicted of murder after being arrested as a 16-year-old is running for Congress, hoping to unseat Rep. Mike Garcia and flip the district blue to help Democrats take back the House in 2024."The laws in that were in place to protect me failed me," Francisco "Franky" Carrillo told Axios in a phone interview about his candidacy. "And I realized it was less about the laws and more about those implementing the laws.
Carrillo could be part of a growing trend: One of the wrongfully convicted teenagers in the Central Park Five case,Mayoral races in places like New York, San Francisco, and Atlanta showed a real-time transformation of how Democrats are adapting to crime-related issues that voters care about, particularly in larger progressive cities.offered a new data point for how a progressive candidate who pushed for significant police reform can also lead the party on these issues.
He’s the chairman of the Probation Oversight Commission of Los Angeles County, and also a Policy Advisor for the LA Innocence Project. Earlier this year, he was elected to the Los Angeles County Democratic Central Committee of the 51st Assembly District.about the U.S. Capitol Police and President Biden, but he represents a district that Biden won by 12 points.Some Dems think this race could be a bellwether for their chances of winning back the House, and the Cook Political Report rates it as one of the most
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