When did they last protest the murder of a white person by a black?
Or a regular innocent bystander that a homeless person murdered?
I know this was not your intent but let's not concede the point that a murder even took place here. The Marine likely had his adrenaline flowing when he put the assailant into a chokehold. I doubt that he was trying to truly kill the guy, but instead just trying to keep him restrained until law enforcement officers arrived to take control. Who knows what would have happened if this lunatic was able to get loose and get back up again. After all, he has a rap sheet a mile and a half long with at least 42 arrests for other crimes.
I ride the NYC subways often and I often wonder how I would react if I saw somebody attacking or harassing other passengers. I'm a Marine too and I don't think I could just sit there trying to mind my own business when something like that is going on. Likely I would take some action to restrain the guy. I can't see myself getting on the floor with him and putting him in a chokehold. But I could see myself shoving him to the floor (I'm a big guy) and ensuring that he doesn't get back up to bother other people. I would hope in that situation that other passengers would get involved and support me in restraining this assailant.
That all said, and I know this will rub some Freepers the wrong way, especially those who don't know NYC, the subway systems here are pretty safe overall. I've been riding them for years with no major incident. Maybe I'm just lucky but consider that millions of NYC commuters ride these subways every day for decades. It's almost a wonder these kind of incidents don't happen more often then they do, because there is certainly a lot of riff-raff down in those tunnels. Especially later at night and in the dicier neighborhoods around town.
This incident reminds me of the sensational press coverage whenever somebody gets attacked by a shark. Now millions of people go swimming at the beaches every year without incident. But one shark attack and suddenly everybody is afraid to go in the water for a while.
It's a shame that the Marine was only trying to do the right thing and protect his fellow passengers from a career criminal scumbag and now his reward is a possible prison sentence. Even at best, if he is acquitted, he will have these racist hyenas following him everywhere he goes and surrounding his house and whatnot.
I'm tired of dirtbags like George Floyd and this subway bum getting lionized by race-baiting leftists.