New York City police officers and community members are irate with former Green Bay Packer Ryan Grant and others who paid bail for the release of a man who shot a detective in Staten Island. This is yet another chapter in the disgraceful anti-police sentiment in the nation.
Detective Dominick Libretti’s career and life were put in jeopardy last January when Nelson Pizarro allegedly shot him during a drug bust. A group of people paid $5 million to get him out on bail last week. Grant, who played running back in the NFL from 2007-2012, and as a member of the Packers’ 2010 Super Bowl championship team. He contributed $500,000 toward Pizarro’s bail.
An outraged Paul DiGiacomo, president of the Detectives Endowment Association, said it’s a slap in the face of a man who dedicated his career to public safety to be disrespected by those who funded the bail.” What’s more disgraceful is that former NFL player Ryan Grant funded the bail of an attempted cop-killer, drug dealer who pushes his deadly poison in our communities.”
The connection between Grant and Pizarro is unknown, according to New York Post reporters Melissa Klein and Joe Marino.
Pizarro was arrested seven times in New York. He fired shots at police officers during the drug bust, with a 9 mm handgun. Though Libretti attempted to shield himself and his fellow officers, he was hit in the leg and suffered heavy blood loss.
NYPD Supervising Chief Surgeon Eli Kleinman said his wound was “possibly a career-ending injury and certainly a life-threatening injury. There’s no such thing as a simple gunshot wound.”
Judge Lisa Grey sentenced Pizarro to jail without bail. An appeal last spring set bail at $2.5 million cash and a $5 million bond.
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“Unfortunately the Appellate Division got this wrong and made a ruling I vigorously disagree with,” Staten Island District Attorney Michael McMahon remarked. “Pizarro’s release is an obvious example of the absurdity of Albany’s ‘protect the rights of alleged criminals and screw the victims’ approach. It’s another slap to all of our detectives, the entire NYPD, and in particular, the brave officers this defendant nearly killed while they executed a search warrant in our ongoing fight against drug dealers on Staten Island.”
Grant’s name is mud for his role in freeing a devious career criminal, but he isn’t speaking to the press about getting this fiend out of jail. He played collegiately at Notre Dame, where he rushed for 2,200 career yards and scored 18 touchdowns. Detective Libretti, unfortunately, won’t be doing any running soon, due to the evil perpetrated on him by the shooter.
The anti-police sentiment of recent years evidently has not died down. We need to keep backing the blue, who are under continual assault from criminals and left-wing bureaucrats.
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