Grieving mom thanks Newsom after he reversed decision to parole her son's killer Jessica Cordé wears a mask that says, "Fight like a Mom." In the last few months, that’s exactly what Cordé has been doing. She’s held several one-woman protests in downtown Los Angeles. She’s paid for a billboard demanding justice for the murder of her son Marquis LeBlanc. Get your top stories delivered daily! Sign up for She went to Sacramento in hopes of getting Governor Gavin Newsom’s attention. Cordé says, "My goal was to get to the Governor to tell them what happened to my son, how they killed him for just being Black."