By The newspaper
Apparently the Democratic governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, was asked this afternoon to leave the wake on Long Island for NYPD officer Jonathan Diller, killed on Monday in Queens (NYC).
Hochul arrived at the funeral home in Massapequa, where Diller lived, for the second day of the wake around 1:45 p.m. on Good Friday, but was only there about 10 minutes before he was apparently asked to leave, he said. New YorkPost.
Yesterday the former Republican president Donald Trump was received. Meanwhile, some have criticized President Joe Biden for not going to the funeral, although he was in New York for a million-dollar fundraising event with Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.
Politicians with “anti-police” speeches should stay away from Diller’s funerals, scheduled yesterday and today on Long Island and tomorrow Saturday in Manhattan, the NYPD’s Sergeants Benevolent Association (SBA) had already warned.
That message was specifically directed to City Council President Adrienne Adams and Public Defender Jumaane Williams. The SBA is the second largest police union in NYC and the 5th largest nationally.
“Adrienne Adams, Jumaane Williams and their teammates should stay home. They hate police officers and don’t appreciate what they do. They should stay home and not pretend to be grieving. “They have caused enough anguish and destruction,” he emphatically declared to the New York Post SBA President Vincent Vallelong.
“They are as morally responsible for Officer Diller’s death as the career criminal who pulled the trigger.”
Miller (31) was shot and killed Monday afternoon during his work day, in a simple traffic stop in Queens. Two men with criminal records were arrested in the dramatic case that has shaken New York this week and fueled criticism of the penal system. State penal reform activated in 2020 has since been linked to impunity and a rise in crime, according to NYPD leaders and other critics.
The union leader’s statements follow a scathing letter that the SBA – the union that represents NYPD sergeants – sent this week to members of the mostly Democratic City Council for publishing “hollow” and “hollow” statements of sympathy. false” about Diller’s murder, and saying that his presence would not be required at Saturday’s funeral.
“You are as morally responsible for Officer Diller’s death as the career criminal who pulled the trigger,” the scathing letter said, referring to Guy Rivera, an ex-convict who police say fatally shot him.
Vallelong accused the City Council and “many prosecutors” of being “complicit in this total destruction of civilized society in New York,” according to the pointed letter.
Williams was one of the leading voices for “defunding” the NYPD during the 2020 anti-police brutality protests that shook the city following the death of George Floyd in Minnesota, even threatening to prevent then-Mayor Bill de Blasio would collect property taxes if he didn’t freeze hiring and remove police officers from schools.
“What happened is a very, very sad event, such a horrible thing,” Trump told reporters yesterday after attending Diller’s funeral on Long Island. “We have to get back to law and order. “We have to do many things differently, because this is not working,” he insisted and “took advantage of the wake to focus on a frequent message in the campaign season about crime and public safety,” he summarized. ABCNews.