Evidently the police in Hartford don’t care about threats of black-on-white violence.
The landlord should have told them his tenant was misgendering him, then the cops probably would have been right over.
Was the landlord white?
Many landlords in NYC are protected classes: Orthodox Jews, Indians, Dominicans, Pakistanis, Afro-Caribbean. The same might be true for Hartford.
There are also corporate landlords that own dozens, or even hundreds, of buildings. But you can't kill a corporate landlord; only its property managers.