The first time I ever agreed with Andrew Cuomo
This is CNN:
CHRIS CUOMO: There's always time to call mom. She wants to hear from you. Just so you know.
ANDREW CUOMO: I called mom just before I came on this show. By the way, she said I was her favorite. Good news is she said you are her second favorite. Second favorite son, Christopher. pic.twitter.com/wogd0oP2tb
— JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) March 17, 2020
I have to agree with Andrew, he is probably his mom’s favorite son.
Sure, he is probably the worst Governor of New York of the last century, if ever, but at least he’s not a fluffer for Don Lemon.
The COVID-19 Purge: LA Edition
I thought that the FOX show Deputy was woke preening.
I was wrong, it’s real life in LA County.
Los Angeles sheriff releasing inmates, urging fewer arrests to help combat coronavirus
The inmate population has been decreased by more than 600, in part through early release of those with less than 30 days left on their sentences.
Whoo boy.
“Our population within the jail is a vulnerable population just by virtue of who they are and where they’re located,” Sheriff Alex Villanueva said Monday at a news conference. “So, we’re protecting that population from potential exposure.”
Yep, criminals are just like your nana and pop-pop, they are a “vulnerable population” too.
Oh wait, they got themselves thrown into the harsh conditions of jail because they committed crimes and harmed people.
In Los Angeles County, the largest county prison system in the US, Villanueva said his office had reduced the population from 17,076 inmates to 16,459, a reduction of more than 600 inmates, in about two weeks.
Meanwhile, police departments across the county — including the Los Angeles Police Department — are reducing the number of arrests per day, cutting back from an average of about 300 to 60 this past weekend, Villanueva said. That’s because those who can just be cited without being booked at local jails are being released.
That has worked so well in San Francisco that they are boarding up the city like a hurricane is coming. Rob a store for $950 worth of stuff, get a ticket, do it again the next day. That is the San Fransicso pattern. Just citing these people will cause them to commit crimes again.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California tweeted that the reduction of more than 600 inmates “is a start but nowhere enough” and urged Villanueva to release anyone who would not pose a physical safety risk to the community.
Prop 47 already downgraded a bunch of crimes, so that to be arrested right now you pretty much have to pose a physical safety risk to the community.
How much more are they going to loosen that standard?
This is ridiculous.
The crime rate in these cities is going to spike like nothing we’ve ever seen before.
Bad New York Post, Bad!
I usually like the New York Post, but when they are bad, I’ll call them out.
This is the headline that I saw:
Soccer coach Francisco Garcia dies from coronavirus at age 21
Holy Shit!!!
This guy is 21 and physically fit, shit is getting worse.
Then this down in the article:
A 21-year-old Spanish soccer coach was killed by the coronavirus while also battling leukemia, according to a report.
Garcia was told that not only did he have both coronavirus and pneumonia, but he was also suffering from leukemia, according to the Independent.
Well fuck, pneumonia and leukemia is practically a death sentence on its own.
Leukemia is terrible because it damages your white blood cells and makes it hard to fight infection.
In his condition, he could have died of the common cold.
I fell for the clickbait, but at least I was conscientious enough to read the article.
This kind of shit is what is wrong with the media. People will see just the headline and panic more, rather than understand that Coronavirus was the least of this young man’s problems.
And so the Coronavirus Purge begins in NYC
From the New York Post:
Federal judge spares meth dealer from jail, cites coronavirus
Coronavirus may have spared an accused meth dealer from spending time behind bars for failing his drug tests.
On Thursday, federal Magistrate Judge James Orenstein said that one month ago it would have been a “relatively easy call” to send Rasedur Raihan to the Metropolitan Detention Center for violating his home detention for a string of failed drug tests and blown treatment dates.
But Orenstein denied a federal prosecutor’s motion to detain Raihan and said that packing more people into Brooklyn’s MDC while the COVID-19 outbreak rages on could increase the “risk to the community.”
It is official: COVIT-19 is now a “get out of jail free” card.
Officials and lawyers have in recent days raised alarms on the havoc that coronavirus could wreak on the 1,600-inmate MDC and other jails — what David Patton of the Federal Defenders of New York called a “nightmare waiting to happen” in an interview with Gothamist.
No, the nightmare is cities opening the doors to their jails and prisons letting the criminals know that the city priorities their health and wellbeing over that of the citizens that they hurt which caused them to be put into prison in the first place.
Does anyone honestly believe that the guy who robbed a liquor store is going to socially distance himself when he’s let out? It’s more likely that he’s going to rob a bunch more liquor stores or commit some other crime.
We know this because this has been the result of NYC bail reform law. Now it seems that it’s not just going to be applied to those awaiting trial, but those who have already been convicted as well.
Welcome to New York City, where if you own a bar and keep it open during the outbreak you will be arrested, but if you rob that bar at gunpoint, you will go free.