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2021-06-03 Home Front: Politix

De Blasio needs to face the growing wave of assaults by the mentally ill

[NYPOST] "He’s randomly assaulting people. . . . What are we doing in society when we are releasing these people right back onto the street?" asked Police Commissioner Dermot Shea on Tuesday in the wake of Monday’s unprovoked assault of an Asian-American woman in Chinatown. "It’s craziness."

Cops say the alleged Chinatown attacker, Alexander Wright, lives in a homeless shelter and was arrested four times in the last year for similar random assaults. And he’s only the latest in a long line of dangerously troubled people that the city can’t or won’t treat.

Refusing to confront this mental-health crisis may be the worst failure of the de Blasio mayoralty.

The pattern is all too familiar to New Yorkers: The perpetrator is usually an unstable homeless person with an escalating history of bizarre, dangerous behaviors. Here’s a partial list of the horrors:

Last Friday, another homeless man allegedly pushed another Asian woman, 65, down a flight of stairs at a Midtown subway station. The suspect (John Chappell, 64) was busted last December in the unprovoked assault of woman waiting for the R at the Herald Square station. He had 77 prior arrests then but got a simple desk-appearance ticket.

In January, a deranged man shoved a commuter into a moving train at the Lexington Avenue/59th Street station.

Just two weeks in February saw more than a dozen attacks, including a number of subway slashings, a Bronx woman shoved onto the tracks and a bus operator struck with a 2-by-4.

In early May, a Harlem man was shoved to the tracks in an unprovoked attack at the 135th Street/Lenox Avenue subway station.

On May 23, four people, including a cop, were attacked in two separate incidents — where one attacker wielded a hammer and the other had to be sedated — in the subway.

A few days later, a mumbling vagrant shoved a 36-year-old Asian man in front of an oncoming F train in Queens.

Yet Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio

...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...
continues to turn a blind eye to the problem. Asked last October how he planned to address the city’s mentally ill homeless problem, the mayor droned on about New Yorkers disturbed during the pandemic turning to his wife’s scattershot $1.25 billion ThriveNYC program — which focuses not on this kind of issue, but on lesser issues such as depression.

Posted by Fred 2021-06-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [15 views ] Top

#1
De Blasio needs to face the growing wave of assaults by regular citizens, who know you are anti american communist

Posted by Count Galeazzo Crinese2942 2021-06-03 00:46|| 2021-06-03 00:46|| Front Page Top

#2 John Carpenter's films were somehow eerily prophetic for America. Remember 'Prince of Darkness'?

Posted by Dron66046 2021-06-03 06:29|| 2021-06-03 06:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Is it a 'growing wave of assaults', or reporting?

Posted by Skidmark 2021-06-03 08:05|| 2021-06-03 08:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Critical Theory: they're the oppressed, and the people of New York are the oppressors. Haven't they suffered enough already? They don't need to be locked up.

Posted by Jiggs Trotsky5854 2021-06-03 08:06|| 2021-06-03 08:06|| Front Page Top

#5 /\ Yes! A 'growing wave' fed to some degree by 'reporting.'

Posted by Besoeker 2021-06-03 08:07|| 2021-06-03 08:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Clearly, all were White Suprem....uhhhh swarthy individuals

Posted by Frank G 2021-06-03 08:53|| 2021-06-03 08:53|| Front Page Top

#7 There are two modes in which a dangerously insane person can prey upon the innocent: In an urban setting, where they can move about essentially at will, for the most part ignored. Or, in a desolate countryside where the locals know ol' Ed (thinking Ed Gein here) is a strange guy who keeps to himself and is mostly left alone.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-06-03 12:19|| 2021-06-03 12:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Is it a 'growing wave of assaults', or reporting?

A growing wave by the same people repeatedly attacking others after being repeatedly returned to the streets without bail, whereas before they were locked up upon arrest and then for some period after conviction. This is the result of the war against the Normies by the billionaire-funded Progressive Democrats who took over the district attorneys offices.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-06-03 14:23|| 2021-06-03 14:23|| Front Page Top

#9 America was a Judeo-Christian country with gun ownership. When you remove Judeo-Christian from any country you have excessive violence, guns or no guns.

Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2021-06-03 16:44|| 2021-06-03 16:44|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ Exactly right. Well said.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-06-03 16:53|| 2021-06-03 16:53|| Front Page Top

#11 Critical Theory says they're depraved because they were deprived.

Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-06-03 16:55|| 2021-06-03 16:55|| Front Page Top

#12 Test

Posted by Victor Emmanuel Greater7023 2021-06-03 21:30|| 2021-06-03 21:30|| Front Page Top

#13 Wi-Fi Test

Posted by Fairbanks 2021-06-03 22:00|| 2021-06-03 22:00|| Front Page Top

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