Posted on 09/25/2020 6:33:59 PM PDT by karpov
With children being shot down in the streets all across New York — a by-product of statewide double-digit increases in gun homicides — you’d think Gov. Cuomo would be too humbled to lecture Kentucky about murder.
Not so. Humble ain’t his thing, don’t you know?
Arrogance is another matter. The governor has raised that to an art form — most recently taking time out from his coronavirus-death nursing-home deflections to hector Louisville on its handling of the Breonna Taylor shooting case.
And, in the process, offering an imprimatur-in-advance to those who believe that rioting, robbery — and even shooting cops — is a justifiable response to controversial policing.
“Breonna Taylor’s death was murder,” Cuomo declaimed Thursday, with his customary degree of subtlety and reflection — which is to say, none. “People were outraged. Yes, because it’s outrageous. If a person was murdered, then there’s a murderer, right? That’s how it works.”
Maybe that’s how it works in circular-thinking left-wing fever swamps — where outrage eclipses the rule of law. But not where respect for due process and for common decency prevail. Like in Kentucky, it seems.
There, a duly constituted grand jury found that Breonna Taylor died last spring when police — executing a properly issued search warrant — came under fire from Taylor’s boyfriend and returned it, fatally wounding Taylor.
A tragedy? So it would seem. A fiasco? Obviously. But murder? Lacking further information, not by the stretch of any honest observer’s imagination.
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The irony is that Cuomo has done as much as anyone to transform New York’s relatively tranquil cities into bullet-pocked hellscapes. (Adjusted for population, Albany, Troy and Rochester have become more dangerous than Baltimore, Philadelphia and Chicago.)
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Cuomo was never that great...
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Lecturing Louisville on the handling of a case, while releasing cop killers from New York State prisons. That’s the height of hypocrisy.
What an arrogant ass. And Breonna Taylor was not murdered! Maybe she shouldn't have been cohabiting with a drug dealer who used her for a human shield.
Glenn Reynolds often states we are currently burdened with the worst political class in our history. I would say that Cuomo - and his colleague DeBlasio - are the worst of that worst. Are you happy New Yorkers?!
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