Gee, I wonder why race of the person preying on white women wasn't mentioned?
Posted on 02/15/2021 1:08:32 PM PST by karpov
Bianca Fortis was exiting a subway station in Brooklyn one evening in late December when a man came from behind and pummeled her.
The next day, the detective assigned to the case told Ms. Fortis, 32, that she was the fourth woman assaulted since November at the Morgan Avenue L station in East Williamsburg.
She was shocked, she said, because there were no police posters at the station or warnings on social media that something was afoot.
“If there had been some kind of public awareness, people could have been on alert and a lot of these incidents could have been avoided,” Ms. Fortis said. “It feels like negligence.”
A week later, detectives arrested Khari Covington, a 29-year-old parolee, on charges including assault as a hate crime after he admitted to targeting “light-skinned” women, prosecutors said.
Investigators have identified 11 women — of different racial backgrounds, but all with light complexions — whom they believe Mr. Covington has attacked at or near the station since August, according to prosecutors in court and victims in interviews.
But what seemed like a solid victory for law enforcement has been shadowed by questions about how the police handled the case and why Mr. Covington was freed after an earlier arrest in September.
The case illustrates the investigative challenges that often contribute to the underreporting of hate crimes, particularly against women, and the difference that alerting the public can make in a criminal case.
Some of the victims expressed anger that the police failed to publicize the pattern of attacks earlier and were slow to classify them as hate crimes, which would have brought more investigative resources to bear.
In the end, it was warnings that Ms. Fortis posted on social media that led to Mr. Covington’s arrest.
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It is NYC you stupid woman. If you wanted safety move somewhere else!
If it’s true that people deserve the government they have, then it’s equally true that they deserve the police protection, or lack thereof, that they have.
So now the NYT is upset police did not warn light-skinned women about a presumably dark-skinned male? The Times really has the gall.
Why there was no Social worker? Why he is not released again without paying bail money? This is not a police job.
They were "Just Followink Orders."
Bernie Goetz needs to come out of retirement.
He’s a parolee. More on that please. We would not be having this conversation if they had not granted him prior leniences.
When Black people use the term ‘light-skinned’ they don’t usually mean ‘White’.
He didn’t say light skinned the police did.
I hear the same garbage from women who live in gentrified parts of DC. Idiots.
From 2015. Scroll down for the bit on the perp.
https://www.amny.com/news/police-blotter-week-of-sept-3-2015-2/
Apparently he likes to target women.
Writer is the same race. I wonder if her indifference would have been so evident if the perp was white and the victims were black?
They also seem to have said that the women were of various ‘racial’ backgrounds.
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