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Florida Alert! It Must Be A Joke!!! NYC Mayor "Shocked" Released Prisoners Are Committing More Crimes

Friday, April 24, 2020

DATE:    April 24, 2020
TO:       USF & NRA Members and Friends
FROM:   Marion P. Hammer
  USF Executive Director
  NRA Past President

 

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio says "it's unconscionable" that criminals he chose to release early from prison are committing more crimes.  If anything, it's predictable.  Surely, the Mayor didn't think criminals would be so appreciative they'd go straight? 

In Florida, deputies say a criminal murdered a man one day after Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister released him early because he didn't want him to be exposed to the Coronavirus. 

You simply can't make this stuff up...  

 

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio is shocked that released criminals are committing more crimes 

 'It's unconscionable'
 
By PHIL SHIVER
The Blaze
April 20, 2020 

https://www.theblaze.com/news/nyc-de-blasio-unconscionable-criminals 

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday it is "unconscionable" that criminals released early from prison over coronavirus fears would commit new crimes.

"I think it's unconscionable just on a human level that folks were shown mercy and this is what some of them have done," de Blasio told reporters during a briefing Monday, according to the New York Post.

The mayor elected to release more than 1,400 city inmates as part of the state's prison break over concerns that the virus would ravage prisons and further the spread of the infectious disease. 

De Blasio's comments follow news from over the weekend that at least 50 inmates who were released early have reoffended and landed back in jail — with some already being readmitted into society again… 

 

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