Parole Board
NYS Board of Parole
97 Central Avenue
Albany, NY 12206
Re: No Parole for Herman Bell (inmate #DIN 79C0262) and Anthony Bottom (inmate #DIN 77A4283)
Dear Parole Board Members:
It has come to the attention of the San Francisco Police Officers’ Association that the State of New York is again considering parole for confessed and convicted killers Herman Bell and Anthony Bottom. It should be noted that while both Bottom and Bell are serving life in prison for the brutal murders of NYPD Officers Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones, they have both plead guilty to the additional murder of San Francisco Police Sergeant Sgt. John V. Young and the attempted murder of civilian employee Ellen Lipney, who was seriously injured in an unprovoked assassination at Ingleside police station in 1971.
They were also involved in the attempted assassination of San Francisco Police Officer George Kowalski that same year. In that attack, they actually used the weapon stolen from the lifeless body of Officer Jones in the commission of that murder. It should also be noted that neither Bottom nor Bell took responsibility for the Ingleside Station murders in 2010 when they pleaded “No Contest” to the charges in abstentia. These two men chose to join the Black Liberation Army; they chose to commit numerous violent acts including armed robbery, attempted murder, and several assassinations of police officers. They chose to deny involvement in some of these unprovoked murders for many years and in the process failed to take responsibility for their actions. We urge you to deny these murderers parole once again and send a message to law enforcement officers throughout the country that their service will never be forgotten.
As elected representatives for the membership of the San Francisco Police Department and in the interest of public safety, we respectfully ask that you DENY PAROLE for inmate #79C0262 and inmate # 77A4283 Justice demands that he be made to spend every remaining day of his life in prison.
Sincerely,
San Francisco Police Officers’ Association Executive Board
Martin Halloran, President
Anthony Montoya, Vice President
Joe Valdez, Treasurer
Michael Nevin, Secretary
Stephen Kirwan, Sergeant-At-Arms
