Westchester County District Attorney Miriam E. Rocah.
WHITE PLAINS, NY — June 6, 2022 — We have all witnessed the recent carnage of gun violence in our country – from the brutal, racist murders in Buffalo to the unspeakable deaths of schoolchildren and teachers in Uvalde, Texas, and now the attack on a hospital in Tulsa. The fact that we see these happening over and over can leave us feeling powerless to stop this senseless horrific violence — to give in to giving up.
We must not, and we will not.
My team and my office has been working proactively over the past 17 months to make sure our gun safety laws are used as effectively as possible here in Westchester, focusing on law enforcement operations to get guns off the street, promote safe firearm storage, host gun buybacks, target untraceable “ghost guns,” aggressively prosecute those who engage in gun violence, and enforce our red flag laws. We have held numerous trainings for law enforcement departments and schools in the county, and we’ve partnered with both Federal law enforcement and experts in our community, including Moms Demand Action. We have dramatically expanded the number of Extreme Risk Protection Orders (also known as ERPOs) court orders in New York, issued when a person may be dangerous to themselves or others, and we are now tracking ERPOs for the first time in my office’s history.
Current events make clear that we cannot let our guard down anywhere, including here in Westchester, to keep our children and families, our teachers and first responders, our neighbors and our communities safe.
As a mother of two school aged children here in Westchester, I feel the same fear so many parents are experiencing each day when they send their kids off to school.
This epidemic has become so pervasive that, for the first time in our nation’s history, gun violence is now the leading cause of death for children in this country. We simply cannot accept this.
I applaud our state legislators for passing a new gun safety package this week that will raise the minimum age to purchase a semiautomatic rifle to 21 in New York, prevent most civilians from buying bullet-resistant body armor, and strengthen our red flag laws. As we know, stronger legislation matters – I stand with my fellow prosecutors in Buffalo who are using New York’s new domestic terrorism criminal statutes for the first time in that case.
This week, President Biden called on Congress to reauthorize a national assault weapon ban. The President is right. There is no excuse for inaction. We must work together to support tougher gun safety measures at the state and federal level, to advocate for stronger national regulations, and to raise awareness about the tools we have to make our communities safer.
I will continue to use every tool available to my office to fight gun violence and I will continue to use my platform to advocate for the changes we need nationally.
I promise that to you – and to our children.
Mimi
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How about Investigating this wrongful gun crime conviction because even your liberal CNN heroes know he’s not guilty! Then you can resign and give George Soros his money back because Yonkers and Mount Vernon have deteriorated into the Bronx!
https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&hl=en-us&q=twistedjustice@cnn.com&nfpr=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi5lNrY2qn4AhVtpokEHUHlBs8QvgUoAXoECAEQAw
How about prosecuting criminals you gutless tart.
#allthewayup
You should be “recalled” like Chesa Boudin you phony leftist George Soros installation
In regards to Chesa Boudin: His rotten weather underground parents while acting in concert with the Black Liberation Army in 1983 were planning on robbing the Dobbs Ferry Grand Union and kill the night manager (My sister) at the customer service desk where the money safe is. They decided to rob the Greenburg A&P (now ACME) instead because they did weekly money drops while the Grand Union does daily money drops. They were arrested at gun point in the Dobbs Ferry diner before they were able to execute their plan. This was confirmed to me in person 30 years ago by a fellow NYPD detective assigned to the Joint Terrorist Task Force. They killed two cops and a Brinks guard in Rockland county and helped cop killer Joanne Chesimard and FALN terrorist William Morales escape to Cuba. This is absolutely confirmed! Now my sister lives in San Francisco and a once beautiful city is extremely dangerous and is disgusting.
Corrected version of events
https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/12/nyregion/fugitive-in-1.6-million-brink-s-holdup-captured.html
When can she lock up the Nolan’s for all the fundraising they do
#allThewayuP
Nolan is sanctioned by Nick.
Inflation highest in 4 decades
Stock market down 600
Donna Nolan loves drugs
Formula shortage
Jimmy where’s my plaque
Gas Prices up again
Crime out of control
Drug overdose
Joe Nolan is abusing the system
Open Boaders
Nick Nolan is useless
But hey the Democratic got there prime time last night 🤬🤬🤬🤬
The Nolan’s are one of many families feeding off the Yonkers taxpayers!! So many more are doing it too!
Legislator Nolan has a Yonkers job, but seems to have a lot of time off to attend events….smh!!!
These politicians in Yonkers are so self-serving/enriching, photo-shoot opportunists that come out for ribbon cuttings, which have been made possible by our taxes!!
The Bernice Spreckman opening was a spectacle of all these crazed self-gratifying politicians, thanking each other, congratulations galore, makes one sick!!
They all need to be voted out!!
Why is Nolan employed as a DPW worker yet he does not work there. Nice salary. Why?