Former Gov. David Paterson says New York state laws are too lenient on “spoiled” juvenile advocates after he and his son-in-law were recently attacked by a violent youth on the street. said it was “really annoying.''
“We have overcompensated for what happened to juvenile offenders in the past.” Mr Patterson said: 770 WABC Radio Sunday addresses historical abuse of youth in youth detention facilities.
“The pendulum has now swung the other way to the point where the criminal justice system treats the children who start these fights as if they should be coddled,” said the former governor, who is 70 years old and legally blind. .
“It's really annoying,” he told “Cats Roundtable” host John Catsimatidis.
Patterson and his son-in-law Anthony Sliwa, 20, were beaten by a group of rowdy brats and two city homes.
Two people were walking a family's dog on an Upper East Side sidewalk on Oct. 4, authorities said.
The beef began when Sliwa, the son of Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa, disciplined a group of young men who had climbed the fire escape. The young brats then returned with a city housing worker to confront him and his stepfather.
Ms. Patterson said she was stunned when she saw the full surveillance video of the brawl, indicating it was even worse to even remember it.
He suggested that he may have temporarily lost consciousness during the assault.
“Apparently, just when I thought the incident was over, one of the participants ran up to me from behind and hit me on the head. I fell and was lying on the ground, but I have no memory of what happened,” he said from 2007. said Patterson, who served as governor until 2010.
Patterson previously told the Post that he believed two Housing Authority employees were responsible for the attack on him and Anthony, and said the video supported his claims.
“They said they intervened to stabilize the situation. Well, you wouldn't know it from watching that video,” he said.
Last week, NYPD arrested housing workers Trevor Nurse, 40, and Diamond Minter, 34, and charged them with second-degree assault in the despicable attack.
Three boys, ages 12 and 13, turned themselves in to police for the assault and were charged with second-degree assault, but the third boy, who turned himself in, was not charged because police determined he was not involved. He was released.
In an interview with the Post last week, Patterson said prosecutors and judges should throw the book at the two adults and let them “rot in hell.”
The footage, which appears to have been filmed through a McDonald's window, shows about half a dozen attackers kicking and punching Anthony, who is bloodied and defenseless, on the ground as Patterson tries to pull them away. The situation is reflected.
Patterson said a young man hit him and punched him back.
“I threw him into a McDonald’s window. [and] He hit him again,” the Democratic pollster said at the time. “The adults escalated the situation. For all I know, the adults may rot in hell.”
