Fallen cop Jason Rivera did his job — Kathy Hochul and Alvin Bragg should too

Governor Kathy Hochul has the belly-crawling partisan pander down pat -- similar to disgraced ex-Gov. Cuomo.
Don Polllard

And similar to that, Kathy Hochul has develop into Andrew Cuomo.

True, the Empire State’s second unintentional governor out of the final three hasn’t but thunderously forged opponents out from New York political order. She hasn’t damaged any legislative arms. And none of her associates has been indicted.

However hey, let’s reduce her some slack. She’s new on the job.

Nonetheless, take into account this:

• Hochul is each bit Cuomo’s equal with the gubernatorial cash valise — stuffing in some $23 million in marketing campaign donations in simply 5 months. Andrew, who performed New York’s shameful cash-for-consideration governance tradition like a piano, should be proud.

• She’s acquired the belly-crawling partisan pander down pat. Her swift pledge of allegiance to New York’s criminal-justice crazies, to guard her hard-left in an election 12 months, is correct out of the Cuomo how-to handbook.

• And now comes the vanity. Hochul just isn't fairly Cuomo’s equal right here — he was the product of a lifetime in always-obsequious Albany — however she’s closing in.

How else to explain her informal dismissal of Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg’s no-such-thing-as-a-bad-boy strategy to regulation enforcement — at the same time as New York buries two murdered cops whereas staggering underneath the load of steadily rising violent crime?

Former New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo resigned in August 2021.

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Bragg pledges to not prosecute, or not less than not too harshly, and Hochul responds: “Minimize [him] some slack.” He’s new on the job.

So listed here are three questions for Madam Governor:

• In case you have been launched to Karina Mora, whose brother Wilbert was laid to relaxation from St. Patrick’s Cathedral Wednesday, might you look her within the eye and inform her Bragg wants “slack”?

• What about Dominique Luzuriaga, the newlywed widow who spoke on behalf of her husband, rookie Jason Rivera, Friday? Would you ask her for persistence?

• And the 1000's of grieving law enforcement officials jammed into St. Pat’s and filling Fifth Avenue curb to curb twice inside a single week? In case you have been to face earlier than them, what would you say?

Be cool? And by no means thoughts that six comrades have been shot within the metropolis since Alvin Bragg took workplace — and that the one factor sure about this particularly pernicious model of bloodshed is that there can be extra of it?

Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg has come underneath heavy fireplace for his controversial, progressive insurance policies.

STEFAN JEREMIAH

“What number of extra lives of those that shield us can be taken by violence and crime? What number of moms? What number of sons should lose their households?” requested Det. Mora’s sister at St. Pat’s Wednesday.

“We're not secure anymore, not even members of the service,” declared Det. Rivera’s widow Friday. And talking on to her husband of simply three months, she stated, “I do know you have been bored with these new legal guidelines, particularly those from the brand new DA. I hope he’s watching.”

“You don’t consider a giant, strapping man,” Police Benevolent Affiliation President Patrick Lynch stated Wednesday, addressing Det. Mora’s mom. “You consider your son. You consider your child. You set your head on their chest, and also you hearken to their heartbeat, and also you consider the life they’re going to steer.”

Mayor Eric Adams, and Gov. Kathy Hochul attend the funeral of murdered NYPD Officer Jason Rivera.

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“Slack” for Bragg? Not going from that quarter. Nor ought to there be.

The tragedy of Andrew Cuomo, a person of huge potential, is that he purposely squandered his presents. He gave himself over to power-driven pandering and cynicism. So no one ought to doubt for a second that have been he nonetheless governor, he could be standing four-square behind Alvin Bragg — as a result of that’s what the state’s ascending left wing calls for.

And there stands Kathy Hochul, too.

A New York Police officer holds a photograph of Officer Jason Rivera.

AP / Yuki Iwamura

She, Alvin Bragg and the late Det. Jason Rivera, useless at 22, have this a lot in frequent: They have been all new to the job.

Rivera did his, no questions requested. That is greater than will be stated of the opposite two.

So let’s reduce no slack for them. None in any respect.

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