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Tessa Majors was looking to buy weed before her murder, police union president claims
New York Post ^ | Dec 15, 2019 | By Tina Moore, Craig McCarthy and Joe Marino

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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To: CedarDave

I thought I saw something about 1AM. I guess i didn’t.


21 posted on 12/15/2019 11:20:31 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
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To: qaz123

Maybe. Why a young girl needs street cred it beyond me. I went to college in Manhattan. All I wanted was a date to the Sadie Hawkins dance.


22 posted on 12/15/2019 11:21:28 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: BobL

This is why is should be legal and you can just go into a store and buy it


23 posted on 12/15/2019 11:22:03 AM PST by Truthoverpower (The guv mint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Parents may have had that long talk with her, but teenagers don’t listen.

Parents must be devastated.


24 posted on 12/15/2019 11:22:32 AM PST by Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me)
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To: AnAmericanMother

[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. ]


If you look at Google Maps, you’ll see that this isn’t “a bad part of town” - the park is right across the street from the college dorms. Basically, the Columbia campus cops and security people dropped the ball.


25 posted on 12/15/2019 11:23:33 AM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: miss marmelstein
Dumb might be too strong a word. She was a kid...new to the big city. You and I wouldn't be doing anything like that today but then neither of us is 18. Well,at least I'm not! :-)
26 posted on 12/15/2019 11:23:51 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
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To: BobL

If pot was legal she wouldn’t be dead, would she?


27 posted on 12/15/2019 11:24:15 AM PST by Tailback
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To: AnAmericanMother
'Young white girl going alone to bad part of town to purchase drugs'

This is upper Manhattan. The park is adjacent to her school and next to Mt. Sinai. Not the mecca of crime, nor a bad part of town.

28 posted on 12/15/2019 11:24:20 AM PST by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: Gay State Conservative

As I’ve said, I went to college at 17 in New York City. If you think I walked into city parks after dark, think again.


29 posted on 12/15/2019 11:25:13 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein

Beyond me as well


30 posted on 12/15/2019 11:26:03 AM PST by qaz123
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To: BobL

What she was doing is irrelevant to her killing by these savages.


31 posted on 12/15/2019 11:26:07 AM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: BobL

It’ll soon be legal everywhere so look for the crime rate to go down...


32 posted on 12/15/2019 11:26:40 AM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: Theoria

The venue didn’t kill her, the perps did.

And I don’t think she’d’ve encountered into them in a library or a church.


33 posted on 12/15/2019 11:27:07 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: Avalon Memories

“Seems to me the police union guy was blaming the victim.”

People who make bad decisions in life need to be blamed and held accountable to their actions, even murder victims. Maybe others will learn from her mistake.

..and no way in any way am I taking anything from the thugs her killed her.


34 posted on 12/15/2019 11:27:31 AM PST by setter
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To: shelterguy
It is not good for a young white female to be alone at midnight almost anywhere let alone a bad part of the city.

She was murdered at around 5:30 pm.

35 posted on 12/15/2019 11:27:50 AM PST by Drew68
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To: Zhang Fei
If you look at Google Maps, you’ll see that this isn’t “a bad part of town”

I'm the biggest coward on earth and I'm no expert on NYC but to me any part of Manhattan that's north of 110th Street is "a bad part of town"...particularly after dark.

36 posted on 12/15/2019 11:28:20 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
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To: BobL
My son has a friend in the Yale freshman dorm.

He said the kids literally ORDER weed over SnapChat and go out to the car to get it, like UberEats.

He can't believe that some WASPy bumpkin from Charlottesville went into one of the most dangerous parks in NYC to get weed, when any number of guys in her dorm would have gladly gotten it for her, if only in hopes of getting a date.

37 posted on 12/15/2019 11:28:56 AM PST by montag813
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To: mass55th

[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. ]


Check out Google Maps sometime. The park is literally across the street from the college dorms. She wasn’t venturing into some random area or downtown Mogadishu. That’s why this incident is so shocking. Based on Yelp reviews, along with some photos, this seems like a pretty nice park:

https://www.yelp.com/biz/morningside-park-new-york


38 posted on 12/15/2019 11:29:43 AM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Drew68

It is dark at 5:30.


39 posted on 12/15/2019 11:31:40 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: BobL

in before the pot people flood into this thread and use the dead girl as an argument for legalizing pot.


40 posted on 12/15/2019 11:31:47 AM PST by JohnBrowdie
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