We, the Comrades of Unit 1012: The VFFDP, support Crime
Victims’ Rights Group, so we post this from Hauppauge, New York. Let us not
forget the victims and their families.
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Protesters in Hauppauge
rally against new bail reform law
By Zachary R.
Dowdy zachary.dowdy@newsday.com
Updated January 14, 2020 8:57 PM
Long
Islanders with loved ones killed in crimes ranging from murder to drunken
driving rallied in Hauppauge Tuesday against the state’s new bail reform law, a
measure advocates considered overdue but viewed by police and prosecutors
as a danger to public safety.
“We
are basically here fighting because we don’t want any new members,”
said Mastic resident Jennifer Harrison, of Long Island/New York Metro
Area Parents and other Survivors of Murdered Victims Outreach.
Harrison spoke
outside the H. Lee Dennison Building and in front of a monument to murdered
children.
“We
feel that bail reform is a dangerous initiative,” Harrison
said.
On Jan. 15,
2005, Harrison's boyfriend, Kevin Davis, 28, was stabbed to death during a
scuffle at a bar in New Jersey, she said.
Others at the
4 p.m. gathering — some of whom held signs saying, “Victims’ Rights Matter” and
“Repeal Bail Reform” — had similar stories of tragedy. Some told tales of
killings decades ago. For one attendee, Rebecca Carr, 23, of Mastic — whose
boyfriend was killed in a car crash Sunday — the pain is still fresh.
Carr said she
met and fell in love with her boyfriend, Jonathan Armand Flores-Maldonado,
27, of Westhampton Beach, at SUNY Buffalo State College, where she is a
student.
Jordan
Randolph, 40, of Bellport, is charged with drunken driving in connection with
the crash on William Floyd Parkway in Shirley. About 4 a.m. Sunday,
Flores-Maldonado was driving a 2015 Ford when Randolph drove a 2014
Cadillac ATS into the back of the vehicle, officials said. Flores-Maldonado was
pronounced dead at Stony Brook University Hospital.
Randolph had
three prior convictions for driving while intoxicated since 2011, Suffolk
prosecutors said, but he was released on his own recognizance Monday after
arraignment in First District Court in Central Islip.
"I
want justice,” Carr said.
The new law
bars imposing cash bail for most misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies.
Randolph had
been convicted of misdemeanor DWI in 2011 and felony DWI in 2016 and 2018,
prosecutors said.
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People think that I'm really into politics
Nope! I hate politics! But I hate lies and distortions of the truth even more I
hate seeing the media act as an arm of the leftist progressive movement
manipulating the populous with propaganda and false unproven ideology I'm not
into politics I'm concerned for humanity The Pacification of Humanity.
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Harrison said
the rally was a response to a demonstration in Albany on Tuesday in
support of pending bills in the State Legislature that could grant parole to
incarcerated people 55 years or older who also served 15 years or more in
prison. The bills would allow the parole board to give greater weight to
the personal changes an applicant has made rather than who they were at the
time they committed their crime.
“In
this New York, victims have no rights, police are vulnerable and our children
are not safe as they roll out the red carpet for convicted criminals,”
Harrison said in a statement she read as a light rain fell. “This bail reform is a farce and must be repealed immediately
until it can be properly researched, written and executed with the support and
advice of all pertinent law enforcement, judges, victims groups and civil
liberty organizations in a way that makes sense.”
By Zachary R.
Dowdy zachary.dowdy@newsday.com
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New York is ringing in the New Year with major criminal justice reforms:
11:44 AM - 28 Dec 2019
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OUR COMMENTS:
We did
not see any Prisoner Rights organization mention the crime victims and their
families’ name. We did not hear any of them from those criminal rights
organization attend the candlelight vigil. We notice, that not a single
criminal rights activist showed their outrage by protesting the inhumane parole
of the killers, they remain silent.
We,
the comrades of Unit 1012: The VFFDP, who truly have compassion for murder
victims and their families, will not only remember the victim but we will encourage
people to support the victim’s rights activist to fight the murderers’
release.
OTHER LINKS:
Repeal
Bail Reform, Restore Victims' Rights
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