NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller was fatally shot Monday evening when he and his partner made contact with the occupants of an illegally parked vehicle.NYPD/Facebook
A retired detective and neighbor of Officer Jonathan Diller has charged that Gov. Kathy Hochul, and liberal district attorneys and judges, have "blood on their hands,” as officials say the two men connected to Diller's fatal shooting during a traffic stop had at least 20 prior arrests.
Michael Blangiforti, who served in the NYPD for 20 years, including in the 105th Precinct where Diller worked, told Fox News Digital, "the inexplicable bail reform that’s in New York, combined with revolving door justice -- it simply makes no sense. There's no common sense behind the decision-making."
"This governor is awful," he said. In the wake of Diller’s death, Hochul released a statement that read, "I am heartbroken by the senseless killing of Officer Jonathan Diller tonight in Queens. My prayers are with his family, loved ones and the members of the NYPD. His heroism and service will never be forgotten."
But Blangiforti, who retired in 2008 as a detective squad commander, torched the governor’s response.
"That's a canned statement. Do you think she actually wrote it?" he told Fox News Digital. "Somebody in her staff wrote what you're supposed to write. I bet if you compared them side by side every time a tragedy happened, they all be identical. Oh, my thoughts and prayers are with the family. He's a hero and so forth and so on. Yet, you support the laws that allowed this to happen."
In addition to Diller’s slaying, Blangiforti cited the 2015 shooting death of Officer Brian Moore who also served in the 105th Precinct.
"It's very upsetting and something, something has to change because these, the DA's, the judges, they have blood on their hands, and nobody seems to call them out. Nobody seems to realize that they're the ones who are releasing these violent felons back on the street," Blangiforti said. "It’s unconscionable that somebody with 21 prior arrests, one for gun possession, one for armed robbery to gun, the gun charge was less than a year ago. And yet he's, you know, he's walking the streets, is not in prison and has a gun and seems to have no problem just shooting a cop."
