Diane Piagentini, the widow of Police Officer Joseph Piagentini, recently made a statement as much in sadness as frustration which state officials can’t logically rebut: “It is mind-boggling that the parole board could find that the release of musician John Lennon’s murderer was incompatible with the welfare of society but the release of cop-killers isn’t.”
She was standing outside the Manhattan offices of the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision prior to giving a victim-impact statement to a parole board considering whether to release Anthony Bottom, one of three men who murdered Mr. Piagentini and his partner, Waverly Jones, on May 21, 1971 after using a phony call for assistance to set up an ambush. Another of the shooters, Herman Bell, was released from prison six months ago; the third killer, Albert Washington, died in prison.
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