The disgraceful Jonathan Diller verdict: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: A Queens jury’s verdict acquitting NYPD cop Jonathan Diller’s shooter of first-degree homicide.
The jury’s resolution to acquit the profession prison who shot NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller of first-degree homicide defies motive (“Cop killer verdict shocker,” April 2).
It was a failure on their half to correctly execute their sworn obligation as jurors.
This savage ought to by no means stroll the streets again.
I hope Judge Michael Aloise sees to it that he doesn’t when he sentences him on the opposite counts within the case.
Thomas Urban
Wantagh
Unfortunately, this verdict can have a chilling impact on how officers work on stopping crimes.
Why would you put your self on the road when the people of this metropolis don’t have your back?
I spent over 22 years with the NYPD and beloved the job, however I’d not suggest it to any household or good friend.
God bless and defend the Diller household.
Dan Gardner
Staten Island
Defense legal professional Jamal Johnson’s argument that Diller’s death is an instance of “what happens when you’re stopping people and you’re doing it in a dishonest way” is despicable.
Even the blind might’ve seen Guy Rivera’s intent to kill.
Has justice grow to be so perverted that victims have misplaced their proper to due course of?
James Evans
Worcester, Mass.
Another heartbreaking verdict within the homicide of a hero cop in New York.
My coronary heart breaks for Diller’s widow and son.
While they should dwell with out him, his assassin will serve 15 or 20 years in jail, the place he’ll discover God and grow to be a modified man.
Then a left-wing parole board will release him as a result of it wasn’t their beloved one who was killed.
Gordie Johnson
Latham
The proven fact that Rivera’s gun jammed in an attempt to shoot Diller’s associate ought to’ve made this an ironclad resolution for the jury.
It is ludicrous that the protection tried to painting this as a case of racial profiling, given the truth that Rivera had a prison document, was armed and maybe on the cusp of committing one other crime.
The protection scratched the underside of the barrel attempting to defend this low-life.
Frank Brady
Yonkers
Don’t really feel hopeful that Rivera could also be sentenced to life with out parole.
In the cop-hating world of New York City, you may rely on a future parole board setting him free in 20 years or so.
New Yorkers who voted for Mayor Mamdani and District Attorney Alvin Bragg have blood on their arms.
Robert Mangi
Garden City
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The Issue: President Trump’s deal with to the nation boasting of how he’s taking down the Iranian regime.
President Trump mentioned that within the subsequent two or three weeks he’ll utterly eviscerate Iran’s potential to make use of missiles, drones and different means to dam vital delivery within the Persian Gulf (“We are fighting for our children,” April 2).
This presumes, of course, that his missile and bombing raids will probably be profitable. That’s a very large presumption.
Trump’s enthusiastic — presumably delusional — optimism must be tempered with this warning by Carl von Clausewitz: “In war more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect.”
Mike Barrett
Ashburn, Va.
Trump’s double-talk is masterful. We destroyed Iran’s missile program, but they’ve simply rained missiles on Israel; it’s simple for our allies to open the Strait of Hormuz, however he hasn’t been succesful of it; we’ve gained the warfare, but the assault continues.
This would’ve been a good speech on day two of the warfare, not within the sixth week of an engagement Trump prompt could possibly be over in a few days.
Lou Maione
Manhattan
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