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.
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Seems to me the police union guy was blaming the victim.
Things in the mainstream media are never quite what they seem.
A kid..her first time away from home...her parents should have had a *long* talk with her before she left.
Libs are largely quite sick in thinking.
What does her Dad say?
NYC doesn’t have approved medicinal outlets?
The crime is robbery and murder.
politically correct murdering..
So what? It doesn't matter why she was there. Does that make it less of a crime?
Drug warriors never miss an opportunity.
"Victim shaming" is a recent invention by folks who seem to think that any observation that a victim contributed to his or her situation is off limits.
It *can* be used to make people feel better ("it'll never happen to me") and in some cases I suppose the observation is intended to shame the victim.
I think the police are simply saying here that there are certain places that will get certain people into trouble if they go there. Young white girl going alone to bad part of town to purchase drugs is almost a guarantee of a robbery and/or murder. Sad, perhaps, but true.
It’s what they do when they can’t find the perp and if the perp happens to be of “color”.
“Seems to me the police union guy was blaming the victim.”
How so?
It is not good for a young white female to be alone at midnight almost anywhere let alone a bad part of the city.
But it doe not lessen the horrible crime committed by these thugs.
“What does her Dad say?”
His twitter has since been removed but he is a far leftie. Every other post was an anti trump meme.
The gal in question was also a far left radical.
No grandkids for him.
If true, she’s dumber than I thought. There are lots of ways to get pot than go to a city park after dark.
Not midnight - it was just after dark at 5:30 p.m.
No, but it sends a message, and alerts others like her that it's dangerous to be roaming the streets and parks of New York at night in pursuit of whatever good time you're looking for. Kids think their invincible. They always think it won't happen to them...that this kind of stuff happens to other people. It doesn't hurt to give them a "wake-up" call on how easy it is to lose your life for the dumbest reasons.
Your statement is true.. However she was killed shortly before 7:00 p.m.
Shame what happened to her, regardless of her political leaning.
However, getting her pot from the street is a talking point. Would have given her some cred. Getting it from the campus dealer, where all you have to do is send him a text message and he’ll probably deliver it for you, isn’t cool.
Hell, right now there’s an app where you peruse a menu, pick what you want and it tells you where and who to get it from. No sh*t. I’ve seen it with my own two eyes. You want HinduKush, hit the button and voila. You want some other kind of Kush, hit the button and voila.
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