Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association President Patrick J. Lynch continued his war against Cuomo-administration parole policies Oct. 1 in testimony before the State Senate Crime Victims Committee.
Mr. Lynch criticized decisions by the Parole Board to release killers of law-enforcement officials: Herman Bell, one of the Black Liberation Army gunmen who ambushed and murdered Officers Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones in 1971; Robert Hayes, who killed Officer Sidney Thompson in 1973 as he attempted to arrest a friend of Mr. Hayes for fare evasion; and Jose Diaz, who sprayed a bodega with bullets trying to hit a rival drug dealer and wound up killing Bronx prosecutor Sean Healey in 1990.
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