Three Wounded in Times Square amid 83 Percent Surge in NYC Shootings
Three people were wounded in Times Square on Saturday night as shootings in Mayor Bill de Blasio’s (D) New York City surge 83 percent.
The New Daily reports three individuals were shot around 5 p.m. Saturday “at the intersection of 7th Avenue and 44th Street.”
Two women and a four-year-old girl were injured.
The Daily Mail noted the four-year-old “was struck in the leg, a 24-year-old woman was hit in her thigh and a 44-year-old woman was shot in the foot.”
NYPD released video of a suspect wanted in connection with the shooting:
WANTED in connection to shooting three people near West 44th Street and 7th Avenue in Manhattan on May 8, 2021. @NYPDDetectives need anyone with information about the identity or whereabouts of this individual to contact @NYPDTips at #800577TIPS. All calls are anonymous. pic.twitter.com/qciBGCR6AK
— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) May 9, 2021
The Mail pointed out “shooting incidents in New York City are up 83 percent from last year, and 94 percent from 2019.”
On April 27, 2021, Breitbart News explained Mayor de Blasio’s NYC saw 46 shooting incidents over a seven-day time-frame. Those incidents left behind 50 shooting victims.
New York adopted a large number of gun controls in 2013 under the auspices of the SAFE Act. Those controls include universal background checks, a ban on “high capacity” magazines, an “assault weapons” ban, firearm registration requirements, and ammunition registration.
Police officers are seen next to marked shell casings from a gun in Times Square on May 8, 2021 in New York City. According to reports, three people, including a toddler, were injured in a shooting near West 44th St. and 7th Ave. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)
The New York Government’s webpage notes the state also has a red flag law, which took effect August 24, 2019.
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GOP Senators Ask Finance Committee to Investigate NY Gov. Cuomo’s Handling of Nursing Homes During Pandemic
Six Republican senators have sent a letter to the Senate Finance Committee asking for a congressional investigation into how New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo handled nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic and the steep death toll in those institutions.
Sens. Ben Sasse, (R-NE), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), John Thune (R-SD), Tim Scott (R-SC), John Barrasso (R-WY), and James Lankford (R-OK) signed the letter addressed to Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR).
The letter said, in part:
We ask that you open an investigation and hold a committee hearing on New York’s cover-up of nursing home deaths. Transparency and accountability are not partisan aims and must be taken seriously by this committee.
Governor Cuomo’s administration reportedly knew that over 9,000 nursing home residents had died of COVID-19 by May 2020 — approximately 35 percent of the state’s total COVID-19 deaths. However, Governor Cuomo’s administration publicly claimed that just 21 percent of the COVID deaths were in nursing homes. This is horrifying and unacceptable.
While we appreciate the hearing this committee held in March on the issue of COVID-19 nursing home oversight and the investigation that the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn and the FBI have opened into the action of the Cuomo administration more must be done.
The Law 360 website reported on the development:
In remarks to reporters on Wednesday, Cuomo, a Democrat, dismissed the call for an investigation as Republicans playing politics, saying they had politicized the COVID-19 pandemic since the beginning.
“They were in denial of COVID,” Cuomo said. “You had the president of the United States who said it wasn’t a problem. It was going to go away. We’re going to reopen by April. He wanted to blame the Democratic governors for COVID.”
Cuomo adviser Richard Azzopardi told Law360 the GOP senators’ bid for an investigation is an “unserious political charade.”
Law 360 reported Cuomo is also facing an impeachment investigation by the New York State Assembly on allegations of sexual harassment — charges he denies — and the handling of nursing home deaths.
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