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The disgraceful Jonathan Diller verdict: Letters to the Editor — April 4, 2026

The Issue: A Queens jury’s verdict acquitting NYPD cop Jonathan Diller’s shooter of first-degree murder.

The jury’s decision to acquit the career criminal who shot NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller of first-degree murder defies reason (“Cop killer verdict shocker,” April 2).

It was a failure on their part to properly execute their sworn duty as jurors.

This savage should never walk the streets again.

I hope Judge Michael Aloise sees to it that he doesn’t when he sentences him on the other counts in the case.

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Unfortunately, this verdict will have a chilling effect on how officers work on preventing crimes.

Why would you put yourself on the line when the people of this city don’t have your back?

I spent over 22 years with the NYPD and loved the job, but I would not recommend it to any family or friend.

God bless and protect the Diller family.

Defense attorney Jamal Johnson’s argument that Diller’s death is an example of “what happens when you’re stopping people and you’re doing it in a dishonest way” is despicable.

Even the blind could’ve seen Guy Rivera’s intent to kill.

Has justice become so perverted that victims have lost their right to due process?

Another heartbreaking verdict in the murder of a hero cop in New York.

My heart breaks for Diller’s widow and son.

While they have to live without him, his murderer will serve 15 or 20 years in prison, where he will find God and become a changed man.

Then a left-wing parole board will release him because it wasn’t their loved one who was killed.

The fact that Rivera’s gun jammed in an attempt to shoot Diller’s partner should’ve made this an ironclad decision for the jury.

It is ludicrous that the defense tried to portray this as a case of racial profiling, given the fact that Rivera had a criminal record, was armed and perhaps on the cusp of committing another crime.

The defense scratched the bottom of the barrel trying to defend this low-life.

Don’t feel hopeful that Rivera may be sentenced to life without parole.

In the cop-hating world of New York City, you can count on a future parole board setting him free in 20 years or so.

New Yorkers who voted for Mayor Mamdani and District Attorney Alvin Bragg have blood on their hands.

The Issue: President Trump’s address to the nation boasting of how he’s taking down the Iranian regime.

President Trump said that in the next two or three weeks he will completely eviscerate Iran’s ability to use missiles, drones and other means to block critical shipping in the Persian Gulf (“We are fighting for our children,” April 2).

This presumes, of course, that his missile and bombing raids will be successful. That’s a very big presumption.

Trump’s enthusiastic — possibly delusional — optimism should be tempered with this warning by Carl von Clausewitz: “In war more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect.”

Trump’s double-talk is masterful. We destroyed Iran’s missile program, yet they’ve just rained missiles on Israel; it’s easy for our allies to open the Strait of Hormuz, but he hasn’t been capable of it; we’ve won the war, yet the assault continues.

This would’ve been a good speech on day two of the war, not in the sixth week of an engagement Trump suggested could be over in a few days.

Want to weigh in on today’s stories? Send your thoughts (along with your full name and city of residence) to letters@nypost.com. Letters are subject to editing for clarity, length, accuracy, and style.

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