Rep. Ritchie Torres blasts Gov. Kathy Hochul, Mayor Eric Adams and NYC Department of Correction for multilayered failures that set violent madman loose.
U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres, a Democrat from the Bronx, blasted New York leaders over the weekend for failed criminal justice reforms that enabled 'a homicidal rampage' in broad daylight last week, resulting in the murders of three innocent people at the hands of a violent, mentally ill man released from custody early. 'The bureaucrat in DOC who authorized the early release of Ramon should be fired,' Torres wrote in a fiery letter to Gov.
Police last week arrested the 51-year-old homeless man for allegedly fatally knifing three people in separate Manhattan stabbings on Nov. 18. We live in a city and state where the only people who seem to suffer consequences are the victims of crime and their loved ones. Enough is enough.
Read the letter: 'These tragedies are preventable but neither the city nor the state seem to possess the political will to prevent them, despite having the tools to do so,' Torres wrote. 'The state refuses to grant the mayor the legal authority he needs to prevent dangerous people from roaming the streets. The city refuses to hold DOC accountable for the early release of a demonstrably dangerous criminal who went on a stabbing spree.
The stabbings come as Daniel Penny, a 26-year-old Marine veteran studying architecture in the city, is on trial for the chokehold death of another homeless man, Jordan Neely, who died after Penny grabbed him during an outburst of shouted death threats on a subway car. The defense rested its case Friday by revealing Neely had an open warrant out for his arrest the day he died.
He blasted Hochul last week as 'the new Joe Biden' and urged her to get out of the way if Democrats want to maintain their grip on power in the Empire State. 'She may be in denial about the depth of her vulnerabilities as a Democratic nominee,' he wrote on X. 'A Democratic incumbent who is less popular in New York than Donald Trump is in grave danger of losing to a Republican in 2026.
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