After the Midtown violence on Easter night that prompted Mayor Bloomberg to call it a "wilding," the NYPD has "deployed a task force" to investigate the incident and "prevent further chaos," according to the Post. The paper's source said, "There's a lot of heat coming from Headquarters. God forbid there's another incident."
The Daily News' Michael Daly wonders why Rayvon Guice, who was arrested for shooting two women on West 34th Street during the melee, was given a "free pass" for prior gun charges and cited court papers for a 2008 incident in the Bronx, "Defendant [Guice] stated in sum and substance YOU WANT TO FOLLOW SOMEBODY, YOU DON'T KNOW WHO YOU ARE F---ING WITH and then shot three times into said crowd of people with a .45-caliber handgun." And though he did shoot the gun, Guice managed to plead guilty to attempted possession of a weapon and served a year.
And the Post's Andrea Peyser is glad that Manhattan DA Cy Vance isn't offering pleas—"Vance...appears, finally, to have listened to me and manned up"—but says that might be wishful thinking, since a prosecution source says, "Saying, 'I'm not going to take any pleas' sounds nice. But the truth is, you can't say anything until you see what these cases look like. What's the evidence? Are there witnesses? I'm not sure an expert DA would say those kinds of things."
