Readers sound off on an accused killer overseas, Trump adulation and Louis Molina

Bronx: I was wondering if someone could explain to me the difference between Joran van der Sloot and Veron Primus?

Van der Sloot is suspected of being the last person seen with Natalee Holloway, who went missing in Aruba. He was convicted of murder in Peru and is being extradited back to the United States to face charges in Natalee’s murder.

Primus is suspected of being the last person seen with Chanel Petro-Nixon in 2006. Her body was found in garbage bags four days later. Primus was convicted of murder and kidnapping charges for another woman’s killing in St. Vincent, yet he is not being extradited back to the U.S.

From various news articles that I have read, Primus has based his appeal on the fact that the NYPD took evidence from his trial and didn’t return the items. If that is the case, he should be on the first plane back to face charges for Chanel’s death.

While the official marches for Chanel stopped in 2016 after the indictment of Primus, I have not forgotten her and still march in her honor every year to her sacred ground at 212 Kingston Ave. the Saturday before Father’s Day, which this year is tomorrow, at 11 a.m. Perhaps this year, someone will meet me there and explain how we can pursue the same justice for Chanel that we pursue for Natalee. Ernest Brown

Belle Harbor: Babylon Town Council candidate Kevin Sabella Sr. has the best campaign slogan: “I have nothing to hide.” Bobby Nelsen

Floral Park: In answer to Voicer Robert Whitaker Sirignano’s puzzlement as to why people are upset over Donald Trump’s legal problems: I am indeed upset, but not because he’s being prosecuted. If Trump did wrong, he must be held accountable. What’s bothering me is that our current president, Joe Biden, and his infamous son Hunter have clearly committed illegal acts of their own, yet they are not being prosecuted. While some damning evidence is being withheld, the pile that’s already been collected is staggering, yet the Bidens seem untouchable. Why the special treatment? Why the double standard? Hope this clears things up for you. Angelo Vetrano

Garden City, L.I.: So Donald has been caught with thousands of boxes of files, some concerning national security. Hopefully, they have all been returned. Now we need to check to see if any dishes, silverware, crystal, small appliances, etc. are missing. Paul Falabella

Rockaway Park: As I watched a group of people on television hugging and taking pictures with Donald Trump after his arraignment in federal court, it reminded me that a certain segment of Americans have always idolized criminals like John Dillinger, Al Capone, Jessie James and John Gotti. It is sad but true. Anthony Johnson

Rockaway Park: The following is a quote from my Trump flip-page desk calendar from a few years ago. I keep it on my refrigerator so that I get a laugh every morning. The date is Feb. 21, showing 1,064 days to go until the end of his term: “I think apologizing is a great thing, but you have to be wrong. I will absolutely apologize, sometime in the hopefully distant future, if I’m ever wrong.” The quote is from an interview he had on “The Tonight Show” in 2016. This man is terminally mentally ill, and how anyone with half a brain can agree with anything he says is beyond belief. He would literally sell our country down the river if it made him look good. Wake up, all you MAGA people. Sharon Gabriel

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Itasca, Ill.: Memorial Day is over, but what an opportune time to recapture an almost-lost perk of living in America: civility. First, remember that “liar” and “lying” are still bad words. Legendary comedian George Carlin said there are no bad words, just bad intentions. Liar and its derivatives have bad intentions. The recent debt ceiling agreement makes me wonder if we have a rare window to breathe some much-needed collegiality back into the system. You and I don’t have to follow Congress’ example of contentiousness and spite. Let’s set our own example. Our elected officials should be taking cues from us anyway. Until they do, we’ll have to carry the torch for civility — that is, once we find it. Jim Newton

Bridgewater, N.J.: How does Mike Lupica reveal his shallow take on LIV Golf (“For Monahan and PGA, Saudi merger all about the money,” column, June 11)? Make sure to name-check the car-crashing womanizer Tiger Woods. Don’t even bring up the 9/11 families whose outrage is making the U.S. Senate take action. Charles Everett

Yonkers: Your story “N.Y. to look at paying reparations for wage gaps” (June 12) deserves a follow-up. How only 77% of Black voters supported it is quite interesting and surprising. I would think the percentage would be much higher. What reason could one give for not wanting some extra cash? Tom Deering

Kearny, N.J.: Re “2nd Rikers captain speaks up, gets slap” (June 13): The walls are closing in on thin-skinned, incompetent NYC Department of Correction Commissioner Louis Molina. Like all authoritarians, this boob can’t stand being challenged, so he suspends stand-up DOC Captains Awais Ghauri and Marat Chmut, frontline soldiers on Rikers Island, for having the temerity to question dangerous policies. But as punks like Molina find out, when you try to silence people of conscience, you incite others to stand up to you. On top of a brewing rebellion by the rank and file, the federal monitor overseeing the DOC has finally grown a pair and is calling Molina out for all his failures and lies. If I were a betting man, I’d put money on this empty suit — whose incompetence and irresponsibility have led to the death or injury of many in his care — following Keechant Sewell out the door before year’s end. John Woodmaska

Brooklyn: The big raises and bonuses to active members of the United Federation of Teachers and DC37 were given because of backroom deals to stiff the retirees of the same unions by placing them in an inferior health plan (Medicare Advantage). The active members don’t realize that one day they will retire and be pushed into the inferior plan. The man making most of the decisions for the NYPD is Phil Banks, who resigned from the department under suspicion of misdeeds. He should be nowhere near the NYPD. The Correction Department is in shambles because of an incompetent commissioner. The FDNY is having its problems. Morale is low. All the experienced chiefs are leaving. Cronyism is alive and well in City Hall. All of the above is because of our mayor, One-Term Eric. Kalmus Lowe

Manhattan: Retired FDNY Deputy Chief Richard Alles’ impactful participation in fundraising efforts for the Tunnel To Towers Foundation (“9/11 aid takes flight,” June 4) is no surprise to all that know this genuine New York City hero! I met Richie at the NYC Organization of Public Service Retirees and FDNY EMS Retirees rally at City Hall in April. We were there to protest Mayor Adams’ elimination of city retirees’ Medicare-based health care plan and his imposition of the Medicare Advantage plan on 250,000 city retirees. Richie was the most dynamic speaker at the rally! His poignant words resonated with his fellow FDNY retirees as well as the other demonstrators. Richie also gave special thanks to his public school teachers who put him on the “straight and narrow” as a kid and taught him how to read and write. Thanks to the Daily News for featuring him. Gerard Rosenthal

Brooklyn: Voicer Mildred Manham writes: “Dunphy was staying in Rudy’s guest room, so was she supposed to quit and just get another affordable apartment? We all know that’s not possible in today’s America.” Not true. All she has to do is go to Mexico, cross back into the U.S. illegally and she gets a free hotel room. Robert Perlberg