Posted on 11/23/2020 4:58:42 AM PST by karpov
It was 2 p.m. on Tuesday, what would normally have been a busy weekday as Thanksgiving neared. Alex Weisman, a stage and television actor, stepped off a train at a subway station on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and was punched twice in the face by a man who then fled.
The assault injured Mr. Weisman’s skull in two places and tore one of his retinas.
“There was nothing else I could have done to protect myself,” Mr. Weisman, 33, said on Friday. “I am shaken by this.”
The day after Mr. Weisman was attacked, a man was shoved onto the tracks at the Bryant Park station after arguing with another man whom the police believe was a panhandler. On Thursday, a woman was pushed off the platform at the Union Square station by an emotionally disturbed man who appeared to be homeless. She lay between the tracks and avoided serious injuries as a train passed over her.
The three attacks were part of a worrying trend: After overall crime on the subway dropped significantly during the citywide lockdown this spring, violent crimes have started to increase. So far this year, incidents of felony assault, rape, homicide and robbery on the subway have surpassed the number of those crimes committed in the same period last year.
Now, as the financially battered transit agency that runs the system warns of major service cuts and fare hikes if it does not get substantial federal aid, the rise in crime has stirred fears among riders and complicated officials’ efforts to coax people back to the subway.
In recent months, the agency, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo controls, has criticized the New York Police Department for not deploying more uniformed officers to the system.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Defund the police!!!!
Why is crime spiking????
Let me guess...
Notice no description of any of the perps other than “male.” These are mostly racially motivated crimes, you can bet money.
Watch the original Death Wish. It will give you a feel for what’s happening.
And if you noticed the KING blamed the police! Not the Mayor!
NYT loves this
Anybody surprised after an entire summer of “hate the police,” “hate Whitey,” “Destroy the USA,” “free anyone who attacked Whitey,” “OK to loot and destroy”?
This is New York, which is ruled by radical liberal far left democrats who don’t care if some old Whitey is pushed on to the tracks.
They want Federal aid? For New York City subways...a purely local means of transportation? I wish all 73 million of us who voted for Trump could tell them to piss up a rope, but...
As usual, NYT left out the most critical element of the story: Were the punks WEARING MASKS? If not, perhaps they could also be charged with “attempted human sacrifice” of their victims. I’m surprised the NYT didn’t pick up on this ...
Hell hole.
Huh, whaddaya know?
I’m waiting to see if the Death Wish movie comes to life in these socialicities.
“Alex Weisman, a stage and television actor, stepped off a train at a subway station on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and was punched twice in the face by a man who then fled.”
Looks like things are getting back to normal, although it will take several hundred Upper West Side murders for these dingbats to figure out just how fortunate they were to have 20 years under Rudy and Bloomberg.
I live in NYC, I can't/won't carry a gun and the police will protect me. I vote Democrat.
Why would a fellow Democrat punch me in the face?
I'm so confused and clueless..
Warren Wilhelm Jr. (DeBlow-zee-oh) does care -— he’s socialists — and he through that scaring people into submission would work - instead, the packed their s**t and left his miserable city!
...and no one wants to return — again, yet another fine example of WHY LEFTISTS SHOULD NEVER BE IN CHARGE OF ANYTHING !
“Alex Weisman, a stage and television actor, stepped off a train at a subway station on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and was punched twice in the face by a man who then fled.”
I also wonder if he was alone when it happened, or perhaps with an ‘alternative lifestyle’ partner - given what he does for a living. If the attacker is from a protected class (and thus was angered by their public display), the media likely won’t mention that detail.
That’s kinda the whole point of not giving details. They want to set up a narrative. It will be like elementary school where you punish the whole school for the actions of a few students. In order to stop these attacks, they need more control of ...you.
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