RON DOING HIS JOB

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has suspended a George Soros-backed progressive prosecutor for failing to enforce state laws.

The Republican governor said Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren, who oversees the Tampa Bay area, would be removed from his post immediately.

DeSantis said he would ultimately seek Warren’s dismissal.

At a press conference Thursday, DeSantis argued that Warren, a Democrat, had “publicly put himself above the law” while frustrating local deputies and citizens with a soft-on-crime approach.

DeSantis said that Warren directed his office to let serious offenses slide and that the prosecutor had vowed not to enforce any current or future laws regarding abortion or gender-reassignment surgery for minors.

The governor also ripped permissive prosecutors around the country and said cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles had deteriorated as a result of their policies.

“We are not going to allow the pathogen that’s been around the country of ignoring the law. We are not going to allow that to get a foothold here in the state of Florida,” he said. “We are going to make sure our laws are enforced and no individual prosecutor puts himself above the law.”

Susan Lopez will step in as the state attorney, DeSantis said.

Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister lauded DeSantis’ action, asserting that his deputies and residents had tired of Warren’s soft-on-crime approach.

As an example, Chronister said Warren’s office declined to bring a case against an alleged gang member who shot a victim and then fired into a home to which he fled.

Women and children were in that residence, Chronister said.

One of the occupants, he said, now lives in a motel because she fears returning to the house with the shooter still on the streets.

The woman feels “as though her status as a victim doesn’t matter, and the state attorney simply does not care,” Chronister said.

He claimed Warren’s office said it wasn’t filing charges because the depositions would be too onerous.