Posted on 12/15/2019 10:56:15 AM PST by BobL
Tragic Barnard College freshman Tessa Majors was allegedly in Morningside Park to buy marijuana when she was fatally stabbed by a group of teenage robbers, the head of the NYPD sergeants’ union claimed on Sunday.
“What I am understanding is that [Majors] was in the park to buy marijuana,” Sergeants Benevolent Association president Ed Mullins told radio host John Catsimatidis on his AM 970 show, The Cats Roundtable.
Police sources confirmed to The Post that they are investigating that angle, based on claims from a college friend of Majors’.
A friend of the victim claimed to detectives that the 18-year-old Virginia native and musician told the pal she was headed to the Upper Manhattan park to buy pot Wednesday evening, sources said.
Majors was later found fatally stabbed on stairs near West 116th Street and Morningside Drive. Her bag was gone.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Columbia and Barnard are in a bad part of town. Venture off campus and you’re on your own.
I beg to differ. During pre-dawn hours, one of the Mt. Sinai personnel wanted security to open the door after he’d been hit (shot), and the guard actually gave him a hard time about it. (This was in the late ‘70’s. It was a crappy neighborhood then. I don’t know what it’s like now, but it doesn’t sound good from this story.)
Tessa Majors was murdered at 5:30 pm when it was dusk but not night, in a park across the street from her college. That’s a long way from the pejorative “roaming the streets at midnight”. I don’t think you intended to blame the victim, but whoever twisted the facts certainly did. Where did the false narrative come from?
Funny, the link went to the Post so I just soldiered on and hit the correct link there.
A small issue for sure but....
Sad that the bastard lived to be 81.
Christ almighty.
So she needed to stay indoors after dark, dressing in a nun's habit, going out with a male relative and walking three feet behind him at all times?
College kids leave the safety of their dorm. That's no excuse to be robbed and murdered. Who gives a flying leap why she was out of her dorm, across the bloody street from it, and got killed.
Your inherent character bias is showing and that's unfortunate.
This wasn’t midnight. It was 5:30 pm.
But that park is not a place to go into after dark, for sure.
Compared to the rest of nyc, it's a island of calm. If the 'crime stats' are accurate.
It’s okay, and Harlem has been gentrifying, but that is still not a park you should be going into after dark (as it was at 5:30 pm in December) — especially if you are a young lady, because your demographic alone makes you more desirable prey.
Barnard is a women’s college within Columbia.
But yeah, a young punk rocker in her first semester in the big city. Still not too savvy, obviously.
“Why have the cops allowed this same group of criminal children to prey upon the area with impunity?”
Nothing personal, but perhaps you’re not up to speed regarding the rules of engagement for big-city cops. Basically, the days that cops could ‘chase away’ troublemakers, including potential murderers, from the public square ended about 50 years ago. So now they’re free to roam as they wish, and people need to ADAPT to that reality, or you get endings like this one.
In my opinion, the blame first and foremost falls on her parents, who (1) Should NOT have sent her into such a dangerous environment, particularly given her background; (2) Very likely never instilled in her that a certain percentage of people are simply EVIL, and she needed to keep clear of them; and worked tirelessly to give us the judges needed to assure animals like this one would be free to kill at will. Being Leftists, they felt, no doubt that all people are good (other than Trump and the people who voted for him), and so there was no elevated risk in her wandering the city, as opposed to living in a quiet college town. Secondarily, no doubt, the others around her, who convinced her that the ONLY people she needed to fear was White Nationalists and Trump, and everyone else was just a sweetie, with some waiting to be discovered as such.
Anyway, while she certainly did not deserve to die, I’m glad her parents are learning a bit about the REAL WORLD, rather than the Communist Utopia that they had been living in.
Actually, you can probably get your fill just breathing deeply on a number of streets in Harlem. The northern border of Marcus Garvey Park, a few streets to the east, being one example of where one can freely fill one’s lungs.
I have read that other Barnard students have said that they’d been warned to stay out of that park, which indeed is just a block over from their college, after dark.
When Mario Cuomo was Governor, he shut down a bunch of the psychiatric centers in the State, and put the patients out on the streets. A lot of them ended up in the prison system. The prison I retired from in Marcy, New York had been one of the psychiatric centers he'd closed. They'd renovated it to be a prison in 1983. It was supposed to be a Medium B prison when it opened, but they couldn't find enough inmates to classify at that level, so they raised the security risk level to Medium A, which is basically one step down from Maximum. The mentally ill in the system grew over the years. When I retired in 2003, they were renovating one of the buildings that had previously housed general population so that they could keep all the mentally ill patients on one side of the prison in one building. They'd be closer to the facility medical building so they didn't have that far to walk to get their meds.
When I started at Auburn in 1980, Correction Officers were handing out controlled substances to inmates on the galleries. When they were locked in for the night, and we were doing the count, we'd go down the galleries with an armful of drugs, handing them out to the inmates who were supposed to get them. They were all in liquid form, and we had to dispense them with eyedroppers, and we had to make sure they took them in front of us. The Union finally put a stop to it, and the procedure was turned over to the medical staff who should have been doing it from the beginning.
This not blaming the victim. It may be a moral lesson in common sense, and that making bad choices often has bad consequences.
I think somebody on FR posted this article earlier. Not sure if you've seen it:
Spiraling Morningside Park crime stats show a neighborhood gripped by violence
“I am sorry you got mugged. I hope you are now okay with that experience.
I am lucky to have a different life experiance. I am six one, 225 pounds in my prime. Played football and lacrosse.
Plenty of guys were ready to take a swing at me, then sized me up and walked away.
Maybe, the muggers also sized me up, then took a pass”
I have been mugged twice. Haven’t thought much about it. It hasn’t happened lately, as I have done less walking and been more in white suburbs.
I am the same age as you and a little shorter. I did athletics, but wasn’t a good athlete, but also look like a big burly guy. Not sure it matters much to muggers. Sometimes, they want to show off and look tough.
+1 for “Yeah, so what? Doesn’t quite justify cold blooded murder.”
Of course it’s not justified, any more than someone stealing your car because you left the key in the ignition.
But it certainly does serve as a “cautionary tale”.
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