A cop killer’s possible parole: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: David McClary going through a Parole Board that has just lately sprung 43 different cop killers.
Granting parole to David McClary could be the forty fourth time that a cop killer has been launched by the Parole Board during the last eight years (“Cop-Slayer Hood is Up for Parole,” April 6).
This is sickening and blatantly immoral. The unfathomable anguish that the unprincipled and imprudent Parole Board has brought about the households of these heroic officers is repulsive and needs to be denounced by any decent-minded particular person.
Denis David
East Rockaway
Both of the Cuomos have been a shame.
Gov. Mario Cuomo bought rid of the death penalty for cop killers. Then Gov. Andrew Cuomo eased the rules for parole and appointed 12 lefties to the Parole Board, in order that 43 cop killers have been turned unfastened, and the households of victims should re-live the ache each time a new listening to is held.
Gary Layton
Interlaken, NJ
I discover it appalling that, these days, woke Parole Boards nonetheless even think about parole for many who ambush and kill cops. These cop killers are heroes in jail; I’m not shedding a tear for them.
I’ve household on the job and know former prosecutors, and I can’t think about the ache that have to be felt by these whose family members by no means got here home. These killers selected their path; no sympathy might be discovered right here.
Lee Fleischman
Stamford, Conn.
This information, like a lot of the information on this state, as soon as again highlights how powerless we’re as people.
How can lawmakers sitting in Albany, with the flexibility to change this, assume it’s a good concept?
How can they not see how harmful that is to our security and security?
How can they not perceive that killing a police officer, particularly in cold blood, has a ramification past the killing of a citizen?
To those that vote for them time and again: Stop. Your votes are driving our once-proud and affluent state to the purpose of oblivion.
Dennis Dillon
Pearl River
It was Mario Cuomo who fought towards the death penalty during his phrases as governor with an assurance that cowards like McClary would spend the remainder of their lives in jail. That is till his son Andrew grew to become governor and threw that assurance out the window by appointing radical lefties, with no sympathy for the police or their households, to the Parole Board.
It appears that nothing good comes out of the Cuomo household.
Nicholas Maffei
Yonkers
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The Issue: Fencer Stephanie Turner’s refusal to compete towards a trans girl at a match.
Stephanie Turner selected to take a knee and never compete, somewhat than perpetuate the charade that males can turn into ladies by wishing (“Fencer gal is DQ’d after match protest,” April 4).
Turner is quoted saying: “You’re a man, and I’m a woman.”
Her opponent, as this clear-headed athlete is aware of, was born male, and a man he’ll eternally be. Touché to her.
Anthony Parks
Garden City
By taking a knee and never competing towards transgender athletes, Turner stood tall for feminine athletes who’re consistently having to compete towards organic males who determine as transgender. Turner was black-carded and disqualified from the match for this.
Hopefully, the United States Fencing Association and International Olympic Committee will reverse the observe of permitting competitors by gender identification.
Female athletes who invest their time, power and money have to be free to pursue their sports activities careers, unencumbered by organic males who determine as transgender.
Michael Headley
Brooklyn
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