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Posted on 09/22/2021 11:59:33 AM PDT by karpov
Mayor Bill de Blasio rebuffed demands by Democratic lawmakers, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, for an instant release of all Rikers Island detainees due to increasingly dangerous conditions at the jail, refusing to “just open up the gates.”
“That’s not going to happen,” de Blasio said Wednesday during his daily press briefing, held remotely from Queens Borough Hall.
“I respect the Congress member and her colleagues who signed that letter, [but] couldn’t disagree with them more,” he added. “It’s not going to happen, it’s not the right way to handle things.”
On Tuesday, AOC along with Reps. Jamaal Bowman, Nydia Velazquez and Jerrold Nadler — all Democrats representing parts of the five boroughs in Congress — sent a letter to the mayor and Gov. Kathy Hochul requesting that the executives “immediately” let out inmates held at the out-of-control Rikers Island.
“We strongly believe that those who are detained at Rikers should be immediately released and the facility shut down,” reads their letter. “It has become evident that conditions at Rikers … are deplorable and nothing short of a humanitarian crisis.”
When asked by The Post Wednesday about his thoughts on the radical request, de Blasio touted his plan to close the jails on Rikers Island by 2027 — by which time he will have been out of office for five years — and replace them with four smaller facilities in each borough except for Staten Island, while categorically dismissing the proposal offered by the four House reps.
“In the end, the real thing we have to do as a city is close Rikers once and for all,” said the mayor. “Rikers needs to close once and for all, but when we have new modern, redemption-oriented community jails for inmates to go to.”
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What a LIAR...he already ‘opened the gates’, last year, when he and CommieCuomo let all of the NY/NYC prisoners free....due to ‘covid’.
Has Wilhelm deBlasio looked at the Southern border lately ?
They probably mean a ‘humanitarian crisis’ like the border situation they’ve created. Although that’s probably worse than Rikers.
Maybe the protests at the mayor's taxpayer-funded residence changed his mind.
Build the Jails in the districts whose representatives support this insane idea.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the dumb and crazy girl with the weird rape fantasies. What a twit.
Take their homes with emminent domain.
“What a LIAR...he already ‘opened the gates’, last year...”
Last year he wasn’t running for governor.
How can you tell DeBlasio is lying?
Yes, yes, his mouth is moving......
...any time he’s disagreeing with another democrat he’s lying TWICE as hard as normal...
Scum all of them
Let the current inmates out and put the real criminals in: AOC, Bowman, Nadler and the Squad. We would all be a lot safer.
Hopefully her constituents will eventually eat her alive someday
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