Dad of slain Indiana tourist Ethan Williams slams NY pols over crime, bail reform
By: Elizabeth Rosner, Craig McCarthy and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon | Published on Nov 7, 2022
The grieving father of Ethan Williams — the 20-year-old Indiana tourist gunned down in the Big Apple — on Monday slammed New York politicians over their “silence,” saying elected leaders aren’t doing enough to stifle surging crime.
Without mentioning her by name, Jason Williams referenced a comment Gov. Kathy Hochul made during a debate with Republican challenger Rep. Lee Zeldin last month when she questioned why he was so focused on crime.
“To hear one candidate say to another, ‘I’m not sure why that’s so important to you’ in regards to crime surges in New York is tone-deaf to the suffering of families like mine,” Williams told The Post. “Tone-deaf toward women, such as the jogger raped in Manhattan just last week. And tone-deaf towards surges of violence against Asian Americans.”