Subway Samaritan vs Loudoun Curb Stompers

NYC’s DA doesn’t like charging criminals yet charged the Subway Samaritan with murder for Fatally choke holding mental man who was threatening riders. What’s a guy supposed to do to protect folks? Apply a Loudoun “Curb Stomp”?

I’d argue any kind of choke hold on an out-of-control person shouldn’t last longer than the few seconds it takes to subdue him or her, although that admittedly opens the Good Samaritan up to the berserk offender getting up & returning the favor. Here in nearby Loudoun County, Va, there’s been much to do about an lgbtq group allegedly threatening moms complaining to school officials about their trans curriculum … i.e., with a tackling motion face down into a curb while a compatriot stomps on the back of the “offending mother’s” head. Woke authorities are “investigating”, but let’s not digress. The point is, it’s HARD to tell what to do to protect yourself let alone others when you’re on a crowded train (or in a school board meeting) & some mentally ill homeless man (or offended whatever) starts threatening violence.

The WSJ also lays the blame on the woke policies that have led to a disturbing “decline of public order & the way the mentally ill have been left to fend for themselves on our streets & public places … [the decedent in this case] was all too typical of the mentally ill who wander NY streets & subways. He was homeless & well known to NY police as a drifter who complained of being mentally ill & sometimes suicidal … He had been arrested many times but never received adequate treatment. ‘The whole system just failed him,’ his aunt told the NY Post.” It’s been decades since the US ended institutionalizing “all but the most dangerous mentally ill,” the WSJ editors add. Too bad, we now have Good Samaritans (or foot loose squirrels) instead of shrinks making life-death calls on our subways (& at school board meetings).

Davd Soul