Readers sound off on culpability for killing, the Hunter Biden pardon and enabling Netanyahu

We’ve heard this before, and it’s inactive wrong

Opelika, Ala.: Eerie similarities abound successful the cases of Daniel Penny and convicted erstwhile Minneapolis constabulary serviceman Derek Chauvin. First, they some violated their training. For example, then-Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo testified that Chauvin violated section argumentation by grinding his genu into an anguished and restrained George Floyd’s cervix for much than 8 minutes, past refused to supply archetypal aid. In addition, Lt. Johnny Mercil, the state’s adept connected MPD usage of unit policy, testified that officers are trained to summation power by utilizing the slightest force, past deescalate their restraint.

The grounds of Joseph Caballer, Penny’s Marine combat instructor, is loaded with relevance. Caballer trained Penny to employment respective holds. Penny applied a chokehold to Jordan Neely’s neck. The clasp blocks oxygen and humor travel to the cervix and causes the unfortunate to lapse into unconsciousness. However, Caballer testified that erstwhile a idiosyncratic is unconscious, you’re expected to merchandise him.

The Hennepin County autopsy study concluded that Floyd’s decease was homicide owed to “cardiopulmonary arrest” from “law enforcement subdural restraint, and cervix compression.” David Fowler, erstwhile Maryland main aesculapian examiner, testified successful Chauvin’s defence that Floyd died owed to a abrupt bosom bushed disturbance, the effect of bosom disease. Likewise, Penny’s defence disputes the metropolis aesculapian examiner’s findings that Neely died from the chokehold. They’ve interjected tired, threadbare tropes: Neely’s wellness problems and cause usage arsenic imaginable factors. Of course, Neely and Floyd were rather live earlier encountering Chauvin and Penny.

After Chauvin killed Floyd, helium refused to render aesculapian care. Likewise, Penny smugly told officers helium choked Neely out. No — helium killed him. And helium refused to supply Neely aesculapian care. Marc D. Greenwood

Lax custody

Manhattan: After attacking an older Asian woman, pushing her to the crushed and days aboriginal breaking the jaw of an older Asian man, Jordan Neely was sentenced to a twelvemonth successful a “locked” intelligence wellness installation alternatively of prison. Yet, conscionable a fewer weeks later, Neely walked retired of the installation and, portion acting erratically, had the fatal brushwood connected the subway with Daniel Penny. Perhaps if Neely hadn’t been allowed to conscionable locomotion retired of the unlocked facility, he’d beryllium live today. Why was this allowed to happen? Is the installation going to suffer its licence oregon adjacent beryllium fined? When volition the metropolis commencement confining perchance convulsive mentally sick radical to intelligence wellness attraction facilities alternatively than person them roaming the streets, a hazard to others and to themselves? Miriam Applebaum

Check the rules

Brooklyn: Voicer Natalie Barklow shouldn’t constitute astir things she doesn’t know. Jewish instrumentality permits an termination until the babe quickens, i.e. until the parent feels it determination wrong her body. Now, delight apologize to Rabbi Joshua M. Davidson. Barbara Barran

Bad grandparenting

Breezy Point: I’m gonna springiness my 2 cents astir President Biden and his son. Maybe helium lied oregon possibly it’s an 82-year-old begetter rethinking that helium would ne'er spot his lad again if Hunter went to jail. Maybe that’s wherefore Joe did it. Or helium thought Kamala Harris would person done it if she won. However, I americium inactive disgusted astatine Biden. He took excessively agelong to admit his seventh grandchild, with his idiot lad being the father. That kid had done thing to Joe, and helium should’ve been the gramps who opened his bosom and his location to her, who I recognize is simply a precise beauteous child. Even if she wasn’t, she’s inactive his blood. I won’t pardon you for that, Mr. President. Paul Lepelletier

Things changed

Fairfield, Conn.: Re “Biden’s unpardonable clemency” (editorial, Dec. 3): At the clip Joe Biden promised not to pardon his lad Hunter, the Department of Justice was successful the hands of a rational administration. But the electorate has chosen to elite an autocratic person who has indicated helium volition usage the section for vengeance and to terrorize his enemies. So, since DOJ’s goalposts volition beryllium moved from justness to persecution, Biden was morally justified successful preempting the threat. He didn’t interruption his word, Donald Trump’s voters broke America. Ira Friedman

Enabler

Staten Island: Enabling: “The process by which a idiosyncratic contributes to the self-destructive oregon compulsive behaviour of different person(s).” Mr. President, your parenting skills are abhorrent, but I’m not surprised, arsenic truthful is your leadership. “All men are created equal,” but it seems that to you, your lad appears to beryllium much adjacent than others. Let’s not hide the container of cocaine recovered successful the White House connected July 13, 2023, whose root was ne'er divulged. Myra B. Goodman

Resumé builder

Monmouth Beach, N.J.: To each the MAGA faithful retired determination who person their big diapers twisted into a knot astir the Hunter Biden pardon, possibly Hunter tin crook his beingness astir and go a viable campaigner for either a furniture presumption oregon ambassadorship successful the upcoming Trump medication by committing intersexual assault, which seems to beryllium a positive connected your resumé for a presumption connected the Trump team. David W. Kay

Understandable

Charlotte, N.C.: I’ve been sitting present trying to enactment up immoderate choler astir Biden’s pardon of his lad but not feeling it. Trump acceptable the barroom truthful debased connected idiosyncratic and familial benefits and enrichment during his archetypal 4 years that Biden pales beside him. Did anyone fuss to work Biden’s mentation for his pardon of his son? His mentation was acold much cogent and tenable than Trump’s “I’m the president, I tin bash what I privation and nary 1 tin halt me.” Unfortunately, Trump was right. God assistance america all. Barbara Haynes

Partisan outrage

Newton, N.J.: Voicers Tom Ascher and John Stout are selectively outraged implicit Biden’s pardon of his son. Where were these 2 erstwhile Felony Donnie pardoned everyone but the Tooth Fairy during his archetypal reign of error? And volition they kick aft the J6 traitors are pardoned? I uncertainty it. Michael Schnackenberg

Financial gains

Brooklyn: Trump campaigned connected correcting the “disastrous” Biden-Harris economy, right? It’s alternatively unusual that I, on with millions of different mean middle-class citizens, did truthful good successful the past 4 years. My status portfolio roseate by 30% and I received 3 increases successful my Social Security payments, the past 1 to spell into effect successful January, erstwhile Biden is inactive president. The record-high banal marketplace has benefited the 401(k) and pension plans of millions of radical inactive successful the workforce. A caller screen communicative by the blimpish U.K. mag The Economist called the U.S. system nether Biden-Harris “the envy of the world.” Thanks, Joe! I and millions of different Americans volition miss you. Dennis Middlebrooks

Evil ally

Little Egg Harbor, N.J.: The International Criminal Court has issued a warrant for the apprehension of Benjamin Netanyahu, yet we proceed to limb him to proceed sidesplitting women and children. The archetypal happening helium did was weaponry schools and hospitals and we continued sending him arms. He is liable for hostages being murdered. He is simply a cold-blooded slayer who cares not whether determination are American hostages oregon his ain women and children dying arsenic agelong arsenic helium satiates his humor lust. We tin not proceed to let this antheral to travel to the United Nations successful New York and prevarication astir what helium is doing to support the hostages. We cognize each helium is doing is signing their decease sentences portion bombing wherever they are located. Let america turn a conscience and halt this farce. These radical are dying of starvation and the IDF is sidesplitting those trying to provender them. God is watching! Rose S. Wilson

Sweeter meat

Granby, Conn.: Any authorities oregon national person who claims to attraction astir carnal payment should enactment nationalist backing for cultivated-meat research. For those who don’t know, cultivated nutrient is grown from livestock cells, without slaughter. There is thing elected officials could bash that has the imaginable to trim much nonhuman suffering and premature decease than accelerating improvement of this technology. While the caller macromolecule has been approved for merchantability successful the U.S. by the applicable authorities, it is presently excessively costly to wide produce. Achieving terms parity with incumbent options volition beryllium important for the occurrence of cultivated meat. Compassionate leaders tin and should play an important relation successful pursuing this extremity by backing authorities wealth for cellular-agricultural development. Jon Hochschartner