The ex-governor. Paterson urges New York to stop “coddling” juvenile criminals

Former governor. David Paterson says it’s “really annoying” how New York laws have become too lenient on “coddled” juvenile defenders – after he and his stepson were recently attacked by vicious youths on a city street.

“We have overcompensated for what happened to juvenile offenders in the past,” Paterson said Sunday on radio station 770 WABC, referring to historical mistreatment of youth in juvenile detention centers.

“The pendulum has swung so far in the other direction now that the criminal justice system is treating these kids who start these fights like they should be coddled,” said the former governor, who is 70 and legally blind.

“It’s really annoying,” he told “Cats Roundtable” host John Catsimatidis.

Paterson and his stepson, Anthony Sliwa, 20, were beaten by a rowdy pack of brats and two city housing companies
Department officials were walking the family dog ​​on an Upper East Side sidewalk on Oct. 4, authorities and the couple said.

The dispute began when Sliwa, the son of Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa, chastised a group of teenagers who climbed a fire escape – and the young brats later returned with city housing workers to confront him and his stepfather.

Paterson said he was stunned when he saw full surveillance video of the scuffle, suggesting it was even worse that he even remembered it.

He suspected he may have temporarily lost consciousness during the attack.

“When I thought the incident was over, one of the participants apparently punched me by running up from my back and punching me directly on the head. I fell over and lay on the floor and I have no memory of it,” said Paterson, who was governor from 2007 to 2010.

Paterson previously told The Post that he believes the two Housing Authority employees provoked the attack against him and Anthony — and that the video backs up his claim.

“They said they intervened to try to stabilize the situation. “Well, you wouldn’t know it by watching this video,” he said.

The NYPD arrested housing workers Trevor Nurse, 40, and Diamond Minter, 34, last week and charged them with second-degree assault in the cowardly attack.

Three youths, ages 12 and 13, turned themselves in to police over the attack and were charged with second-degree assault, while a third boy who surrendered was released without charge after police determined he did not participate.

Paterson said during the Post interview last week that prosecutors and the judge should throw the book at the two adults and that they should “rot in hell.”

Footage apparently taken through a McDonald’s window shows about half a dozen assailants kicking and punching a bloodied and defenseless Anthony as he lies on the ground as Paterson tries to drag them away.

Paterson said he was hit by a youth and hit him back.

“I threw it in the window of McDonald’s, [and] I beat him again,” the Democratic politician said at the time. “The adults escalated the situation. The adults can rot in hell in my opinion.”