Editor's Corner with PoliceOne Senior Editor Doug Wyllie
September 02, 2011
American LEOs try to keep NY cop killer behind bars
For the rest of his days on earth, whatever sunlight Anthony Blanks is allowed to see should cast the shadows of bars across his face
Justice Must Be Served
Late last night I received an email from a PoliceOne Member in Kansas notifying me — as you have surely already concluded — that Blanks is up for parole. A hearing for Blanks (a.k.a. New York State Inmate #78A0538) has been set for Tuesday, September 13, 2011.
It is my firm belief that individuals who take the life of a police officer should serve the maximum sentence received — not the minimum — without the possibility of parole. Upon his conviction, Blanks was handed to 25-to-life sentence. In New York, however, offenders who have served the minimum term are eligible to request a parole hearing every other year.
Blanks took a father from his four young children and a husband from his wife. Blanks took a man dedicated to serving the citizens of Larchmont. Blanks took a hero. Blanks should remain in prison where he can pose no threat to police officers or the citizens they protect.
For the rest of his days on earth, whatever sunlight Anthony Blanks is allowed to see should cast the shadows of bars across his face.
Longtime readers of this space already know what to do when they see me write on this subject. For those of you who are relatively new to the program, here’s how it generally works. You’ve got three basic options for voicing your opinion to the parole board. You can...
• Post a petition at roll call and send it to the parole board in question — this is generally the most successful tactic because you can write just one letter and collect dozens, if not even hundreds, of signatures from your PD
• Send a personal letter to that same address — these work really well too, and give you the freedom to say exactly what you want in the language of your choosing
• Post your name, PD, and thoughts on this issue in the comments field below, and I will compile and send those (en masse via overnight mail) to the appropriate person at the Dept. of Corrections for distribution to the members of the parole board
The parole board is accepting online responses for this hearing. Visit the parole board’s website to submit your response online or send a “snail mail” letter via USPS to the address below (however, given the obvious time constraints on this one, perhaps it would be best for you to use the online form).
New York State Division of Parole
Ref: NYS Inmate #78A0538
97 Central Ave
Albany, NY 12206
Remember to put his Inmate #78A0538 in your comments and please put this out to as many people as you can....this waste of humanity deserves to have been executed years ago but at the very least he should never see the light of day. Just sent my comments in.
Thanks for everything!
I wonder if this cop that calls Anthony Curtis Blank a waste of humanity , and wants him killed has the same sentiments about twenty black men that were unarmed and slained by white cops in 2013. I am sure this " turd" of a cop would not have any problem with that. My name is Clifford Jackson and I live in Larchmont, I am a writer for several newspapers in Westchester and an activist. You can contact the Larchmont PD, they know exactly who I am. When police officers, in particular white ones can acknowledge the brutality and violence that they have perpetrated against men of color everyday in this country's history from Rodney King, Ramarley Graham, Amadou Diallo, the man that was killed unarmed at an Oakland Subway station, by a white cop, as well as a thousand other instances where people of color are killed by cops with impunity than we can have some dialogue regarding the killing of officer Dematte as well as others.
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DeleteSorry you have such a chip on your shoulder but that’s your shortcoming I just want justice served on this waste of sperm, Blank. Your comments about 20 white cops getting away with murder in 2013, are irrelevant.. But one thing you don’t mention is more black men are murdered each day in this country by other black men. Chicago often had that many in less than a week. The deceased are armed and unarmed. And at the scene all these people are sitting around and no one saw anything. Why don’t you “write” about that?
A few months ago I went up to Huntsville to support the family of a fallen officer as the piece of human excrement who murdered him was put down like the animal he is (drugs….personally I would have preferred hanging). Unlike New York, in Texas, especially Harris Country we put capital murdered, especially cop killers on death row. I can live with my conscious. Can you?
Michael,
ReplyDeleteNumber one, I dont have a chip on my shoulders, I am sure you do and some of the thugs that you hang out with, that in some cases are police officers. Just ask that of some of people who are part of the over eight thousand complaints of police brutality that are registered every year in NYC alone. But I am sure that you dont acknowledge any of them, because you and your homies would call it " victimization". I guess Abner Louima was an example of victimization when he got a " baton" shoved up his rectum by an animal named Justin Vople of the NYPD. As far as crime, seventy percent of all violent crimes are committed by whites. Just look up the stats tabulated by the F.B.I. and Justice Department. But in this brutally racist society, and racist criminal justice system when whites slaughter people like they did in New Town, Aurora Colorado, Arizona, Georgia, or when white supremacists, that have killed over 100 cops in the last 15 years, it does not get the attention. The fact that you could have the temerity to say something as ignorant as the fact that 20 black and latino men were killed unarmed by white cops shows that your conscience is obviously not a part of the equation
No chip, strange. You start off on your rant with things that have nothing to do with the point of this post, the fact the state of New York was looking at a cop killer off on parole. Like a kid in his high school English class going off point because he has an ace to grind.
DeleteThe facts are of the approximately 7000 blacks murdered each year, over 90% of the time it was another black man who killed him. Also the greatest threat to officers in this country are not white separatists but black and latino gangs in the big cities.
But this is really not reliant. That sack of human excitement is still in jail. I would rather he be executed but this is better than him breathing free air.
Michael, I am posting this again, hopefully it will not be taken down like it was yesterday. The only person with a " chip"
ReplyDeleteon their shoulders is you. I am sure some of your fellow "thug" friends that are also cops have the same attitude. Keep in mind, because obviously you are a person that does not read, seventy percent of all violent crimes are committed by whites in this country, Just look up the FBI and Justice Department Statistics on that. But your invariable racism does not pay attention to that. As well as the fact that when whites slaughter in NewTown, Aurora, Columbine, Tuscon and at school shootings every week people like you do not focus on that. As well as the fact that " white supremacist, anti-government militia groups have killed 100 cops in the last 15 years, as documented by the FBI and SPLC is also something that you ignore. There are over eight thousand complaints of police brutality and harassment registered every year at the NYPD. I guess you would call that " victimization". When a racist animal like Justin Volpe shoves his baton up the rectum of Abner Louima, in your mind that was good police work. The fact that you sould say " the killing of 20 unarmed black and latino men by white cops is irrelevant", shows how deeply ignorant you are and obviously you are not looking for justice and have no conscience !!
A great day for America.
ReplyDeleteA great day for law enforcememt.
Respect will now return for law enforcement.
About time.
I was a Cruz supporter and in many ways I voted more "against" Mrs Bill Clinton rather than "for" Trump. Then again if the Republicans had nominated a passed out crack head I would have voted for him to keep the Clintons out of the White House.
DeleteAll this being said, as I'm writing this Trump has ordered a federal hiring freeze, has pulled out of TPP and it looks like he will use "executive action" to eliminate the 30 hours Obamacare mandate. I like what I'm seeing.
And unlike B Hussein Obama who had his "just-us" department attend the funerals of thugs in Ferguson and Baltimore, he called the family of
DeleteSergeant Debra Clayton.
I too initially liked Cruz..
ReplyDeleteBut very happy about what we are seing so far.
Its a travesty how police were treated last 8 yrs.
Not any more.
I really appreciated Trump's calling the family of the Orlando sergeant. And last few days have been excellent. Federal hiring freeze, freeze on regulations for review, freeze on grants from the EPA...if that holds, you know how many oxygen thieves will need to find real work in the (for the moment) Obama economy.
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