NYPD: Brian Dowling, 18, charged with murder in deadly stabbing of NYC activist Ryan Carson

NEW YORK - The NYPD says Brian Dowling, an 18-year-old Brooklyn man, is facing murder charges in the deadly stabbing of New York City activist Ryan Carson.

CBS New York was on the scene when Dowling was taken into custody around 10 a.m. Thursday.

Police questioned the 18-year-old at the 81st Precinct, before he was charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon.

Carson and his girlfriend were seen on surveillance video around 4 a.m. Monday sitting at a bus stop on Malcolm X Boulevard in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

Police said a man walked by them, with no interaction. Moments later, as the couple started walking, the man kicked over several moped scooters on the sidewalk, then turned to Carson and said, "What are you looking at?"

"Mr. Carson begins to immediately try to de-escalate the situation," NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said in an earlier briefing.

That's when the suspect pulled out a knife and swung at him, police said. Carson is seen tripping and falling to the ground, and the attacker stabs him three times, piercing his heart.

"As Mr. Carson lay dying on the sidewalk, the male with the knife kicks him in the chest, threatens to stab the woman companion and spits in her face," Kenny said.

Investigators said they do not believe the suspect knew Carson or his girlfriend.

Carson was known for his activism against opioid overdoses. Over last decade, he worked at New York Public Interest Research Group, most recently dealing with recycling and solid waste. Previously, Carson advocated for safe injection facilities.

"He was just all over the place, trying to prevent drugs, just trying to keep the community afloat," said Bed-Stuy resident Gloria Reyes, who knew Carson.

Tributes have been pouring in by candlelight and by post. Mayor Eric Adams wrote Carson "turned his passion into purpose," and Sen. Chuck Schumer described him as "a rising talent and an extraordinary activist."

"Whenever you work with Ryan on an issue, as a colleague, you quickly become a friend because he was such a warm, endearing and fun guy to be around," said Judith Enck, president of Beyond Plastics.

Loved ones also held a vigil at the scene Monday night, just steps away from the home he shared with his roommates.

Malcolm X was a very interesting man.

Malcolm X said: “The white liberals, who have been posing as our friends, have failed us. The white liberal is the worst enemy to America and the worst enemy to the black man.”

“White liberals are those who have perfected the art of selling themselves to the black man as our ‘friend’ to get our sympathy, our allegiance and our minds. The white liberal attempts to use us politically against white conservatives, so that anything the black man does is never for his own good, never for his advancement, never for his own progress, he’s only a pawn in the hands of the white liberal.”

“I only cite these things to show you that in America the history of white liberal has been nothing but a series of trickery designed to make us think that the white liberal was going to solve our problems. Our problems will never be solved by the white liberal. The only way that our problems will be solved is when the black man wakes up, cleans himself up, stands on his own two feet, stops begging the white liberal and takes immediate steps to do for ourselves the things that we have been waiting on the white liberal to do for us.”

“The White liberal is the worst enemy to America and the worst enemy to the Black man. Let me first explain what I mean by this White liberal. In America there’s no such thing as Democrats and Republicans anymore. That’s antiquated. In America you have liberals and conservatives. This is what the American political structure boils down to among Whites. The only people who are still living in the past and thinks in terms of “I’m a Democrat” or “I’m a Republican” is the American Negro. He’s the one who runs around bragging about party affiliation and he’s the one who sticks to the Democrat or sticks to the Republican, but White people in America are divided into two groups, liberals and Republicans…or rather, liberals and conservatives. And when you find White people vote in the political picture, they’re not divided in terms of Democrats and Republicans, they’re divided consistently as conservatives and as liberal. The Democrats who are conservative vote with Republicans who are conservative. Democrats who are liberals vote with Republicans who are liberals. You find this in Washington, DC. Now the White liberals aren’t White people who are for independence, who are liberal, who are moral, who are ethical in their thinking, they are just a faction of White people who are jockeying for power the same as the White conservatives are a faction of White people who are jockeying for power. Now they are fighting each other for booty, for power, for prestige and the one who is the football in the game is the Negro. Twenty million Black people in this country are a political football, a political pawn an economic football, an economic pawn, a social football, a social pawn...”

― Malcolm X

The tone and emphasis/focus of the reporting of this crime would probably be different if the victim was a conservative activist.

White Conservative kills White Leftist -- right-wing extremism.

Black kills White Leftist -- mental illness.

Black kills Asian -- mental illness + white supremacy causes anti-Asian racism in blacks.

Black kills Orthodox Jew -- mental illness + white supremacy causes anti-Semitism in blacks.

Black kills Black or Latino -- no story here.

TOLL PAID on the LIBERAL FANTASY HIGHWAY.

Was it worth it?

“Carson remembered as community advocate

“He was just all over the place, trying to prevent drugs, just trying to keep the community afloat,” said Bed-Stuy resident Gloria Reyes, who knew Carson.

Tributes have been pouring in by candlelight and by post. Mayor Eric Adams wrote Carson “turned his passion into purpose,” and Sen. Chuck Schumer described him as “a rising talent and an extraordinary activist.”

“Whenever you work with Ryan on an issue, as a colleague, you quickly become a friend because he was such a warm, endearing and fun guy to be around,” said Judith Enck, president of Beyond Plastics.

Loved ones also held a vigil at the scene Monday night, just steps away from the home he shared with his roommates.”

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