Her voice breaking, the widow of a police officer assassinated in 1971 blasted state parole officials March 15 for deciding to release one of the men convicted of killing him.
“We’ve been betrayed,” said Diane Piagentini, 74, whose husband, Joseph Piagentini, and his partner, Waverly Jones, were ambushed and shot to death by three members of the Black Liberation Army. “Letting a cop-killer out of prison is a betrayal to police officers, to citizens in the United States.”
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