https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/03/10/americas-ruling-class-wants-to-reduce-us-to-incompetence
Richard M. Reinsch II / @Reinsch84 / March 10, 2022
By refusing to state that an actual person acted viciously and illegally in killing a police officer, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul asked us to believe in a lie. Pictured: Hochul speaks Feb. 3 during a meeting of the Gun Violence Strategies Partnership held at New York Police Department headquarters. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)
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Richard M. Reinsch II@Reinsch84
Richard M. Reinsch II is a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation and columnist for The Daily Signal. He is also a senior writer for Law & Liberty.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul blamed the recent shooting death of Jason Rivera, a New York City police officer, on “a shot from an illegal gun.”
In this strange passive voice, the Democratic governor didn’t mention the officer by name, but concluded that the true threat facing New York City was “the scourge of illegal guns on our streets.”
By refusing to state that an actual person acted viciously and illegally in killing a police officer, Hochul asked us to believe in a lie.