{"id":75830,"date":"2020-09-26T02:52:23","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T23:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/andrew-cuomo-is-playing-with-racial-fire\/"},"modified":"2020-09-26T02:52:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T23:52:23","slug":"andrew-cuomo-is-playing-with-racial-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/andrew-cuomo-is-playing-with-racial-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"#Andrew Cuomo is playing with racial fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Andrew Cuomo is playing with racial fire<\/strong>”
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\n With children being shot down in the streets all across New York \u2014 a by-product of statewide double-digit increases in gun homicides \u2014 you\u2019d think Gov. Cuomo would be too humbled to lecture Kentucky about murder.<\/p>\n

Not so. Humble ain\u2019t his thing, don\u2019t you know?<\/p>\n

Arrogance is another matter. The governor has raised that to an art form \u2014 most recently taking time out from his coronavirus-death nursing-home deflections to hector Louisville on its handling of the Breonna Taylor shooting case.<\/p>\n

And, in the process, offering an imprimatur-in-advance to those who believe that rioting, robbery \u2014 and even shooting cops \u2014 is a justifiable response to controversial policing.<\/p>\n

\u201cBreonna Taylor\u2019s death was murder,\u201d Cuomo declaimed Thursday, with his customary degree of subtlety and reflection \u2014 which is to say, none. \u201cPeople were outraged. Yes, because it\u2019s outrageous. If a person was murdered, then there\u2019s a murderer, right? That\u2019s how it works.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maybe that\u2019s how it works in circular-thinking left-wing fever swamps \u2014 where outrage eclipses the rule of law. But not where respect for due process and for common decency prevail. Like in Kentucky, it seems.<\/p>\n

There, a duly constituted grand jury found that Breonna Taylor died last spring when police \u2014 executing a properly issued search warrant \u2014 came under fire from Taylor\u2019s boyfriend and returned it, fatally wounding Taylor.<\/p>\n

A tragedy? So it would seem. A fiasco? Obviously. But murder? Lacking further information, not by the stretch of any honest observer\u2019s imagination.<\/p>\n

Now, if Cuomo has further information, he should present it. Because as things stand, the governor\u2019s blanket declaration is a shockingly irresponsible act for the chief executive of a state that is always only one errant police action, or one willfully misinterpreted cellphone video, away from disaster.<\/p>\n

Away from, for example, a reprise of the arson, looting and related violence that convulsed both Midtown and upstate cities last spring \u2014 and Rochester just this month.<\/p>\n

And perhaps away from more cop shootings \u2014 like those in Louisville after the Taylor finding and Los Angeles 10 days ago and the assassination of two NYPD officers after Mayor de Blasio encouraged demonstrators shouting for \u201cdead cops\u201d during anti-police disturbances in December 2014.<\/p>\n

Cuomo was governor then, too, and should have absorbed the lesson, that inflammatory rhetoric can indeed have terrible consequences \u2014 but not so. He seems to have aspirations beyond his current station (an occupational hazard for most pols), and so he\u2019s aligning with the portion of his party that embraces wrack and ruin as a legitimate protest form.<\/p>\n

That is, with the Democratic mainstream in this nightmare of an election year.<\/p>\n

The irony is that Cuomo has done as much as anyone to transform New York\u2019s relatively tranquil cities into bullet-pocked hellscapes. (Adjusted for population, Albany, Troy and Rochester have become more dangerous than Baltimore, Philadelphia and Chicago.)<\/p>\n

He led the way with the so-called bail and related procedural \u201creforms\u201d that emptied local lockups and helped generate explosive increases in violent crime.<\/p>\n

Adding to the irony is that Cuomo\u2019s \u201creforms,\u201d taken in tandem with de Blasio\u2019s neutering of tried-and-true NYPD anti-violence tactics, came in the name of racial justice. Yet they have laid a brutally heavy hand on New York\u2019s minority communities, where virtually everybody involved in the violence lives.<\/p>\n

That includes shooters, of course, which ratchets up the cultural tensions generated by even tepid enforcement efforts. But also victims \u2014 many wholly innocent, some otherwise \u2014 who virtually without exception are minority-group members themselves.<\/p>\n

Law enforcement is a messy, unpredictable and sometimes lethally violent undertaking. Clear-cut outcomes are rare, but reflexively laying the blame on police officers when things go south misses a critical point: Without cops, criminals prosper \u2014 and crime victims suffer.<\/p>\n

There are more violent-crime victims in New York these days than there have been in decades \u2014 and that reflects anti-policing policies promulgated or encouraged by the governor who now tut-tuts Kentucky.<\/p>\n

This may be a tactic \u2014 to divert attention from New York\u2019s deflating economy and Cuomo\u2019s other coronavirus woes (see above, nursing homes) or to promote him politically.<\/p>\n

But, whatever the reasons, it also enables anarchy, which is shameful. Cuomo needs to examine his conscience<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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