Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) blasted the woke notion of “squatter’s rights” during an interview late this week where he again went against the grain in his party by signaling support for law enforcement.
“Squatters have no rights,” Fetterman told the New York Post’s Jon Levine. “How can you even pretend that this is anything other than you’re just breaking the law?”
“I am not woke,” Fetterman said, noting that he has always “tried to push back against that,” including when he was the mayor of the small Pennsylvania town of Braddock.
“It’s wild that if you go away on a long trip, for 30 days, and someone breaks into your home and suddenly they have rights,” he sad. “This is crazy. Like if somebody stole your car, and then they held it for 30 days, then somehow you now have some rights?”
Fetterman said that the Democrats’ soft-on-crime policies led to the murder of New York Police Department Detective Jonathan Diller, adding that if the suspect is convicted, he “should spend the rest of his life and in prison, and never have an opportunity to get out.”
Diller, a husband and father who had served three years on the force, was shot in the stomach while making a traffic stop in late March in Queens. The suspect in the shooting was identified as 34-year-old Guy Rivera, who was sitting in the passenger seat of the car pulled over by Diller when he allegedly pulled out a handgun and fired at the officer. Rivera had 21 prior arrests and was released from prison in 2021 after serving five years for criminal possession of a controlled substance, according to the Post. He was also in prison from 2011 to 2014 for first-degree assault.
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“If you have those kinds of established records, it doesn’t serve any greater goal to allow people that are offending, offending, offending and allow them to not be held accountable,” Fetterman said. “We have to be very smart and aggressive on crime.”
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