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Cuomo knocks the de Blasio
administration's 'impotence' for keeping Rikers Island open
“Kids are literally dying because of the policy we
have today,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.
NEW YORK
DAILY NEWS
Tuesday,
March 14, 2017, 12:26 AM
Gov. Cuomo
took a swipe Monday night at Mayor de Blasio, saying he had a limp response to the calls to shut down “savage” and
“inhumane” Rikers Island.
Cuomo made
the comments at an event for “Raise the Age,” a bill that seeks to have 16-and-17 year olds who get
arrested sent to family court rather than Rikers Island.
“The city
has said we can’t do it, it’s too hard. Impotence is not a defense for me,” the
governor said at the Central Synagogue on Lexington Ave. and 55th St.
According to
Cuomo, 95% of children arrested in New York are children of color, and teenage
inmates are four times more likely to be victims of sexual assault than adults.
“Kids are
literally dying because of the policy we have today,” Cuomo said.
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s press secretary wasted no time
shooting back at the governor on Twitter.
(Alec
Tabak/for New York Daily News)
He talked
about the tragic fate of Kalief Browder, a Bronx 16-year-old locked up in 2010
after he was wrongly accused of stealing a back pack. Kalief served three years
on Rikers without being tried or convicted. When he was finally released, he
killed himself in his Bronx home.
“He spent
three years in jail, two of them in solitary. It broke him — he was released
and he committed suicide,” Cuomo said.
“It is so
bad that the federal government brought a civil rights action against Rikers
Island and the city, and appointed a federal monitor to oversee Rikers
operations because of the abuse and because of the violence. And the question
you have to ask yourself is:
‘How did we allow this to happen?’” the governor told the room.
He also said
the city was capable of changing anything — if it had the political will.
Cuomo made the comments at an event for “Raise the
Age,” a bill that seeks to have 16-and-17 year olds who get arrested sent to
family court rather than Rikers Island.
“It is an outrage for New York City to allow a
Rikers to exist,” Cuomo said.
Mayor de
Blasio’s press secretary wasted no time shooting back at the governor on
Twitter.
“We agree
that some Rikers inmates are held too long. Governor, who runs the state court
system that allows that to happen?” wrote Eric Phillips.
But Phillips
also made it clear Cuomo and de Blasio were still working together closely to
coordinate New York’s response to mega-storm Stella.
“We both can shovel snow and chew gum at
the same time,” he tweeted.
