Posted on 05/08/2026 9:54:30 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A maniac repeat offender released from a psych ward after just an hour allegedly shoved an elderly man to his death down Manhattan subway steps in an unprovoked attack Thursday night — with an outraged poilce source blasting the killing as a “complete collapse” of City Hall’s approach to mental health.
Rhamell Burke — a 32-year-old serial troublemaker who has been arrested four times since February — mysteriously walked free from Bellevue Hospital about an hour after cops cuffed him and checked him in as an “emotionally disturbed person” around 3:30 p.m. Thursday, according to police.
The violent brute was released around 4:40 p.m. — and launched his fatal attack on 76-year-old stranger Ross Falzone, who worked as a teacher, at a Chelsea subway station about five hours later, while still sporting his hospital bracelet.
“This happens all the time,” a high-ranking NYPD cop told The Post Friday, slamming the tragedy as a “complete collapse” of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s response to mental illness.
“We brought him in at 3:30 p.m. and he was released just before 5 p.m. Meanwhile, if you or I walked into Bellevue for a headache, it would take 8 hours just to be seen. NYPD uses its involuntary removal powers all the time. And they just get right out with an Advil.”
Police said Burke was hauled to Bellevue after “acting erratically” outside the NYPD’s 17th Precinct station house just before 3:30 p.m. and wielding a stick he had grabbed out of a garbage container.
The unhinged man was allegedly clutching the stick at his side as he approached an officer. Cops then demanded he drop it — which he did about three seconds later, police said.
The crazed suspect was then taken to the Manhattan medical center as an “emotionally disturbed person,” police said, then...
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Pictures. please.
I mean a face pic of the pusher.
Ive already seen a photo of the unfortunate victim.
This ‘early release/ easy release’ of people with a long pattern of violence won’t stop until some judges are forced to share the responsibility of repeatedly dumping noxious garbage back on the same street in was scooped off of.
Some of these people are long past any point of redemption.
No, you don’t even need to google him.
/Yogi
Pictures please.
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So we’re going to blame it on mental illness...how about the guy is just hateful and evil.
Family should sue the state, the psych ward, and Mamdani for many millions
There’s a real psychiatric ward still open? That’s the big news in this story - the Dems apparently forgot to close one.
Stay away from New York City.
It has an incredibly high amount of crazy people.
Long ago when things got this bad people formed groups and with masks got to these killers and hung them up from a free. Such killers did not commit a second crime. In Utah they were called “Avenging Angels”.
At the very least!!
Thanks! He has the Zombie look, for sure.
This is Black on White racism.
When police take a perp to the psych ward, it’s for a 72 hour hold.
So why did the hospital let the psycho perp go?
If this is going to happen, why should there even be police?
The family can sue the hospital.
cherry, I am with you. He just wanted to kill a white woman.
Damn. Just damn New York and democrats, socialists, communists, and whatever else they call themselves who support the jungle.
That little scamp!
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