Clergy leaders in SoCal call on first assistant U.S. Attorney to step down

Some leaders of the religious communities in Southern California have written to the top federal prosecutor in the state, calling on him to resign.

Reverends, rabbis, priests and others hand-delivered a three-page letter to the office of the First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District, Bilal Essayli, in downtown Los Angeles, asking him to resign.

Rev. Tanya Lopez, who is with Downey Memorial Christian Church, prayed from a podium outside the U.S. Courthouse on Spring Street…

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