Mark E. Johnson, Contributor – Councilor Israel Rivera has some splainin’ to do after threatening to hold the city’s police budget hostage unless police give him ‘a pass’ on allegedly driving drunk.
Police dash cam and body cam footage show Rivera, currently serving as city council vice president in Holyoke, Massachusetts (pop. 37,838), sitting in the driver’s seat of his vehicle at the stroke of midnight on the night of December 20, 2025.
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