Where, oh where, have our American values gone?
Northport, L.I.: It offends me to see Americans continually being lied to by Fox News, Donald Trump and his conspiracy theorists. The insurrection against the United States of America on Jan. 6, 2021, was based on lies that motivated a mob of white supremacists to storm the Capitol, where the business of the American people has been carried out since 1857. It shouldn’t be so easy to mislead so many into thinking that antisemitism, bigotry and misogyny are patriotic. In full view of the public, they spit on the Constitution and the rule of law, shamelessly injuring 150 of the U.S. Capitol/Metropolitan police and causing the deaths of five.
While parading around with the Confederate flag of slavery (photo), these white supremacists attempted to harm our duly elected lawmakers because of their golden-calf-like idolization of a twice-impeached and four-times indicted ex-president who has no respect for American values. The First Amendment gives us the right to dissent, not to desecrate (or defecate in) our noble dome of democracy.
President Biden has brought dignity back to America while he’s been busy moving the country forward. We, the people, hold democracy in our hands this election year. If we let a mob of Nazi flag-waving white supremacists destroy our republic, we will forever live to regret it. From the mountains to the prairies to the oceans white with foam, we all must stand with America and help to guide her through this dark night of the soul with the righteous light of our true values. Our country deserves no less than our unyielding resolve to defend her. Peggy Smith
A man fatally shot by two gunmen on scooters at a Bronx corner Tuesday evening had been due in court 15 hours later, where he was facing a weapons possession charge, the Daily News has learned.
Miguel Doleo’s scheduled appearance in Bronx Criminal Court on Wednesday morning was for a Nov. 11 bust, in which he was also accused of fleeing police, reckless endangerment and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, according to court documents.
Further details of the arrest were not immediately available.
NYPD detectives believe there’s a gang element to Doleo’s death. He and three other men were hanging out on E. Mount Eden Ave. near Townsend Ave. in Mount Eden about 6:15 p.m. on Tuesday when four suspects on two mopeds zipped by.
The scooter passengers each pulled out guns and fired off about 10 shots, fatally striking Doleo, 29, in the chest and leg. The three men he was with were all hit in the leg and were expected to survive.
“One was unconscious [and] the other guy was shot in the leg,” witness Wilknes Hernandez, 20, told The News. “I can’t believe what my eyes were seeing.”
Relatives of Doleo, a father of six, were too heartbroken to speak about his death Wednesday.
“He was my brother. He just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time,” said the victim’s sister Erica Delgado. “He was a great father and a loving brother. He basically raised my son as a father figure.”
Doleo was known to frequent the corner with his friends, relatives said.
Police, with the help of NYPD helicopters, tracked a man on a scooter driving recklessly near the scene shortly after the shooting and took him into custody, but it wasn’t immediately clear Wednesday if he was linked to the killing.
No arrests have been made. It also was not immediately clear whether Doleo belonged to a Bronx gang.
The deadly shooting came as the NYPD’s Community Response Teams have been “going aggressively after people on scooters,” NYPD Deputy Operations Commissioner Kaz Daughtry said Tuesday night.
“As a result of this incident, we’re going to be bringing back our Community Response Teams, and they’ll be focusing primarily on individuals riding around on illegal scooters dirt bikes and ATVs,” he added.