This is worse.
The daughter of a slain cop expressed outrage yesterday over Gov. Spitzer's plan to make it easier for violent criminals to get out of prison - including the vicious thugs who killed her dad.That only makes sense. But we're dealing with Eliot Spitzer here.
"It's baffling," said Margaret Ryman-Rainone, whose father, Officer Harry Ryman, was shot dead in Brooklyn in 1980.
"I don't understand his rationale. I'd like him to look me in the face and explain it to me."
Spitzer's plan - which would grant new parole hearings to certain murderers, rapists and arsonists - is part of a deal to settle a lawsuit filed by 1,000 New York prisoners who say they have been unfairly denied parole.
Ryman-Rainone, 43, blasted Spitzer for negotiating the deal in secret, accusing him of discussing it with the criminals' lawyers but not their victims.
"It was completely underhanded," she said.
Ryman-Rainone was 16 when her father, off duty at the time, was gunned down in front of their Flatlands home while trying to stop three men from stealing a neighbor's car.
One of the accomplices in the murder, Barrington Young, 48, could get a new parole hearing under the governor's deal.
Ryman-Rainone's son, Matthew Ryman, 23, became a cop and wears his grandfather's badge.
"Any guy that kills a cop should stay in jail," he said.
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