To the Editor: After Mayor de Blasio visited Rikers Island on Sept 27, he held a vibrant press conference and declared, "I was upset when I took office. I was upset four years ago. I remain upset. This is a place that should have been shut down a long, long time ago."
Since 2014, the Mayor cunningly heralded a self-serving omen that Rikers was inhumane and broken, and because of his inept leadership and negligence, his prophecy has been fulfilled.
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