The parole of former Weather Underground radical and Brink’s robbery getaway driver Judith Clark is a “perversion of justice” and a “slap in the face” to the families of the cops and guard her accomplices killed, a Rockland County official said Wednesday.
“Today’s ruling by the parole board is a cruel and unjust slap in the face to the families of Sergeant Edward O’Grady, Officer Waverly ‘Chipper’ Brown and Brinks guard Peter Paige,” railed Ed Day, executive of the county where the infamous robbery went down. “This perversion of justice is a sad continuation of the deadly assault on police officers happening across our Nation and signals to the criminal element that it is open season on cops.”
Clark, joined by three fellow Weather Underground members and six Black Liberation Army members, knocked over a Brink’s armored car in Nanuet, NY in Oct. 1981, making off with $1.6 million and fatally gunning a car guard as well as two responding state cops.
She was sentenced to life behind bars, but in 2016 had her sentence commuted by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, opening the door for her to be selected for early release.
Clark, now 69 and purportedly a model prisoner, was approved for parole by the state board on Wednesday.
“The parole board and the elected officials responsible for allowing this domestic terrorist to walk free should be ashamed,” added Day.
Outrage extended to the five boroughs, where Ed Mullins, head of the NYPD’s Sergeants Benevolent Association, blasted the decision.
“Welcome to the State of NY, home of Cop Killers who get to walk free,” seethed Mullins in a statement. “Thank you Governor for your moronic unethical Parole Board.”
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