Jordan Neeley death on subway in NYC

[iris lilies]

It is impossible to escape this news story because legacy media wants us to focus on it, but only today did I learn Jordan Neeley was black. He’s an African-American guy who died by white hands. So that explains elevation of the story.

Jordan Neely was well known to New York City mental health and criminal personnel. He was on the list of NYC’s top 50 troublemakers. He had been in and out of many mental health programs. He’s been convicted on felony assault charges, several, and one of them including dragging a child down the street and kidnapping her.

Of course it is impossible to know when one encounters the psychotic people if they are going to be harmful to only themselves. Just yesterday I visited the city and got close to someone standing in the street in a psychotic break. That is pretty typical in any urban environment.

Probably society will be swinging back towards involuntary incarceration, it is so obvious that so many of these troubled people are unable to make the decisions they need to make to keep themselves and others around them safe.


I’m glad that the marine who kept everyone safe in that subway car is only charged with manslaughter.


When I heard about this case, I immediately thought of a video shown around the world not too long ago of the psychotic person who took a woman captive in the subway, dragging her with him, making her sit with him. And today I just learned in a podcast that men in that Situation were universally castigated for not helping her. Well, we can’t have it both ways can we?

[Tradd]

I remember lots of very aggressive panhandlers, homeless people, etc., when I took the L in Chicago 20+ years ago. Luckily CTA employees intervened the one time it got really nasty.

[LDAHL]

Same old story. The usual suspects rush to apply their favored narrative template without muddying the water with facts. Just ask the bike lady.

[iris lilies]

I worked downtown for 30+ years, right across the street from the biggest men’s homeless shelter. There were two notable murders by homeless men, book ending my work life with one being in the early years. It was the murder of the church secretary where the homeless men went for day programs. The other murder took place the year I retired, right in front of the library.

No doubt there were numerous stabbings, assaults etc. and other homicides that never came to my attention.

There are different degrees of mental illness going on with the homeless population and it is unbelievable to me that we treat them all the same when a tiny percentage really needs to be taken away from society and administer drugs , and yes, that would be against their will.

[iris lilies]

San Francisco and LA are such shit shows with homeless encampments, and now apparently Portland is as well. People who work for a living will not be able to insulate themselves from this phenomenon much longer. Well, unless they are very very rich, and those folks will be able to drive their luxury cars into a secure garage at work, and repeat that when they go home at night

A former executive at Levi Strauss in San Francisco is making the talk show rounds, talking about her Ideological enlightenment from a leftie to some thing that does not embrace the progressive ideology.

She tells about her time living in San Francisco that she loved at first and loved it for decades. But several things started to work against being able to live a normal life. She was involved in protesting San Francisco school board for not opening up public schools during Covid when private schools were operating as usual. Her children went to public schools for the diversity element, and the children of all of her executive colleagues went to private school. She said she felt a huge class divide at her place of work because her progressive colleagues could not see how poorly treated the public school kids were.

[Teacher Terry]

Psychotic people need to be hospitalized and treated. Even if they aren’t violent it’s cruel to leave them on the street. 26 years ago when I moved to Reno I loved to go to San Francisco. We used to go yearly for a few days. The last time I went was 2018 and it was disgusting. It smelled like urine and garbage was everywhere. People were openly shooting up. I haven’t been back since.

[littlebittybobby]

Okay---I'm just sitting here, trying to decide what is more important---A deranged street person finally being taken off the street, because Those Democrats could/would not do it OR a story about the missing shop-built mini sub with 5 spendy tourists on board, who just HAD to see that there Titanic OR: the relatively minor amount of trouble the Son-of-Joe is in, considering how corrupt he is! I believe THE MEDIA has already decided that young Biden is a VERY minor issue, compared to the innocent victims' lives lost in the first incidents. Yup. But yeah---as usual, I am 100% right. Hope that helps you some. Thankk mee.